Your Goal

This exercise, and the next, are to let you pull together what you have done so far. This one is to let you reassess your thoughts about the situation and decision

Try the following tasks

• Revisit your recording of the situation and decision. Make any ammendments to it that are warranted by your previous examination.
  
  
• Deal with missing information in the following way:
  
  
  • Record missing pieces of information.
    
    
  • Decide how important the information is by trying this thought experiment: imagine that x is true, and now imagine that x is false. Does this make a difference to the decision you need to make? If its truth or falsity makes no difference it is irrelevant so don't use the fact you don't know as a reason to put off makng a decision. If it does make a difference how big a difference does it make. Try to decide whether it is vital, useful or trivial and write beside the piece of information its level of importance
    
    
  • Work out how easy or difficult it is to find out the information and write this next to the information needed.
    
    
  • Try to work out missing information based upon how important the information is, how easy it is to find out, how major your decision is, and on the your attitude to risk.
    
    
  • Can you take an information finding decision that lets you find out needed information?


• If examining the issues facing you has resulted in you uncovering any other problems keep a record of them. Writing them down for future resolution will help you to isolate them so that don't keep coming back into your mind as you work on your current decision.
  
  
• Look at your analysis of the decision you believe you are facing. If your analysis of this has changed modify this to record your new understanding.

Templates

Record Missing Information: