Your Goal

Select the Best Option. The best option is one that is relevant to the decision you are trying to make, practicable for the situation you are in, and captures what you have decided most weightily matters.

Try the following tasks :-

• For each option you have come up with test it for relevancy.
  
  
  • Ask: "Does it help to solve this problem?"
  • Check this against your formulation of the decision you need to make
  • If it doesn't seem to help solve this problem try to adapt the option so that it does satisfy this problem
  • If the option cannot be modified to be relevant write 'no' and eliminate it. Write 'yes' if it relevant, 'partly if it is partly relevant, and put a question mark if you cannot tell
  • Record your reason for why the option is or is not relevant under the Yes, Partly, No, or ?

• For each option test for practicality
  
  
  • Ask: "Is this option viable?"
  • Check this against your understanding of the situation
  • If the option doesn't seem to be practicable try to adapt the option so that it is
  • If the option cannot be modified to be practical write 'no' and eliminate it. Write 'yes' if it practical, 'partly if it is partly practical, and put a question mark if you cannot tell
  • Record your reason for why the option is or is not practical under the Yes, Partly, No, or ?
  
  
  
• Fill the remaining options in the table below to determine how well each option satisfies what weightily matters
  
  
• Along the top write your different options and down the first column write the values putting the weightiest at the top and the least weighty at the bottom.
• Check how well each option satisfies the different values you want to realize. Try to modify the options so that they are able to satisfy as many weighty values as possible.
• If the option fully satisfies the value put in 5, if it mostly satisfies the value put in 4, and so on. If you cannot tell whether the option satisfies the value put a question mark.
• You can record your reason(s) for why the option satisfies the value.