A quick start

When you first log into Decision Driven® Life, we will seed your personal life decision model from our pattern.  You’ll see a top-level decision, “Life Vision” that then branches into a set of child decisions.

Think of these decisions as the fundamental questions of life that deserve an answer.  The decisions are the questions; there are many possible answers, which we call “alternatives”.   Although the questions follow a pattern; the answers are uniquely yours.  Life isn’t a multiple choice test!

You probably have an “AS-IS” answer to many of these questions, but it may be worth clarifying or perhaps revisiting. We recommend that you start your Decision Driven® Life by capturing a snapshot of your current alternatives.  This is a quick exercise; it should take 20 minutes to blitz through the top 20 decisions or so and record your current answers.  If you get stuck on a decision, you can switch to one of our examples to see how others have answered this question.

You don’t have to think this through top-down; you can drill into the branches to find a decision that you’re facing today.  It’s up to you where you “shine the light” on your life.  Some folks find it easier to work through more “concrete” decisions deeper in the model first; then work back up to important, but more philosophical questions such as Life Vision.

Decisions are the controls for your life – grab them!

Think of each decision as a control knob for a part of your life.  By addressing the decision proactively, you are taking (or taking back) control of this area of life.  Each decision becomes an opportunity for a fresh start, an innovation point at which you can create an answer that is unique to you and uniquely suited to your present circumstances.

Decision Driven® Life provides three ways to visualize your life decision model.  The Decision Network offers a simple two-level view of your decisions.  The Decision Explorer enables you to see even more of a “big picture” view of life.  The Life Roadmap enables you to visualize how your answers to each question have changed over time.  You can use the Roadmap to “fast-forward” your life into the future and get a jump on decisions that you will face or revisit as you enter your next season of life.

There’s more to the pattern

Each decision has been defined (“framed”) in a way that makes it simple to understand and address.  We’ve thought through in advance the factors (“criteria”) that most people would want to consider when making each decision.  So when you dive into a specific decision, you won’t have to think of these from scratch; just personalize and prioritize them to suit your specific circumstances.  We’ll then provide you a scratchpad on which to brainstorm new alternatives, creative answers for this decision.

Our Think it Through view is where you discover which alternative is the best fit for you and capture your rationale.  This isn’t a complex process with lots of numbers; if you can drag-and-drop with your mouse and type a few notes to yourself, you can do this.  We also provide a Compare Alternatives view that you can use to confirm your thinking or communicate the advantages of your new answer to others.

Sharing with others

Your decisions are 100% yours; private and locked away securely.  However, you may also at any time choose to share your decisions with other family members, friends or trusted mentors (who are also Decision Driven® Life users). You may share them briefly to get counsel on a specific decision.  If you are a mentor, parent or grandparent, you may use this feature to pass on your experience and legacy to others.

We believe Decision Driven® Life users are a community with deep reservoirs of wisdom; we encourage you to provide feedback on the patterns and the tools so that we can continuously improve the experience for all.

In order to speed the growth of this community, we are offering referral credits and family renewal discounts.  Check out the details on the FAQs page.

Use our free trial to jump in today!