Hey there!

Yesterday we gave a quick overview of the different ways people try to escape the Clarity Recession:

1. Talking to friends and family
2. Taking another course/reading another book/listening to another podcast
3. Asking an expert for advice

These all seem pretty sensible, right?

It’s counterintuitive—but they’re actually making your decision-making MORE difficult and leaving you increasingly uncertain.

Now, we’re not saying you should abandon these methods entirely.

After all, we use these methods to GATHER information (up to a point, more on that in a second) but we would never use them to MAKE a decision.

So many people think doing 1 or all 3 of these things will actually make the decision easier.

But this is based on 2 faulty beliefs:

Faulty Belief 1: “All I need is one more fact.”

You think consuming more information and collecting more “facts” (from books, friends, experts, etc.) will make the decision easier.

But it’s actually keeping you stuck in productive procrastination and making you MORE uncertain (not less).

And a lot of the time, looking for more information is a way for people to look for permission, validation, and certainty on something they already know what to do.

And usually, this is just the result of being afraid to committing to something:

The pattern is always the same:

• They consume…
• Then they overthink…
• Which means they delay the decision…
• So they reach for more facts to “help” them make it…

And they repeat this cycle over and over again, never make a choice, and don’t ever progress.

Why?

Because they don’t trust themselves.

Now, we bet you’re thinking, “Alright, all I need to do is quit all these things! Consume less! Banish my life of all distraction and THEN I’ll be able to make a decision.”

Ah-ha! Perhaps you’ve nailed it!

But unfortunately, this leads us to the next faulty belief…

Faulty Belief 2: “I can just quit everything and decide free from inputs.”

When the "Get More Input" approach fails, people swing to the opposite extreme:

They go on a huge information detox.

"I'll just delete all my social media apps, stop using AI, ignore my email, block my friends for a week, and FINALLY find clarity in the silence!"

Sounds good in theory.

And we (Dickie & Cole) like to bake intentional time into our days without our phones:

But then reality hits:

• You need LinkedIn for work
• You find genuinely useful information on X
• You use email to stay connected with friends and mentors

Plus, the problem follows you offline.

You can delete the apps, but you can't delete the mental patterns which are keeping you stuck (especially if you STILL don’t have a framework for actually making the decision).

Instead, you need to strike a balance between consuming AND deciding when to turn off the information taps so you can finally make a decision.

Luckily, we found a way to do this.

Decision Journaling is how you bridge these two extremes.

Because you need to do both:

1. Consume information to gather the facts for a problem or decision you face
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2. AND spend some quiet time reflecting on what you’ve discovered (so you can make a choice)

Decision Journaling is how you connect these two, so you can start making decisions you can trust.

And the nice thing is:

Once you have a proven, reliable system in place, you stop:

• Asking everyone else what to do…
• Mindlessly consuming content…
• Second-guessing yourself…

And instead, you can confidently make the ONE decision that will change your life.

So tomorrow we’re going to explain why this method is so effective (and all the huge benefits you can unlock once you start using our Decision Journaling approach).

Speak then,

—Dickie & Cole

PS - Decision Journaling is how we’ve personally beat the Clarity Recession over the last 5+ years.

Which is why we’re so excited to share all our frameworks with you this Black Friday.

So, if you’re looking for a proven way to make better decisions, overcome any overwhelm you’re facing in your life right now, and finally start making progress toward a meaningful goal (a system we’ve been using for years…)

​Click here to join the waitlist.​