Stop overthinking and make confident decisions with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush’s Decision Journaling frameworks, prompts and AI tools.

Stop Overthinking and Start Making Clearer Decisions

Are you an entrepreneur, creator or professional who spends weeks researching decisions—only to feel more confused than when you started?

The Decision Journaling Course by Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush provides a structured system for working through difficult business, career and personal decisions. This is not ordinary diary writing, gratitude journaling or aimless self-reflection. It uses targeted prompts, mental models and repeatable frameworks to help you separate facts from emotions, break repetitive thought loops and determine what you genuinely want.

Created from more than eight years of consistent journaling practice, the program combines three self-paced mini-courses with behind-the-scenes examples from Cole and Dickie. You’ll also learn how to use AI as a thinking partner without allowing it to make your decisions for you.

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

✅ Stop second-guessing important business and life decisions

✅ Turn overwhelming thoughts into clear, actionable options

✅ Separate emotional reactions from relevant facts

✅ Recognize patterns influencing your judgment and behaviour

✅ Understand the six different types of decisions

✅ Distinguish reversible choices from high-consequence decisions

✅ Apply proven decision-making mental models

✅ Build greater confidence in your own judgment

✅ Use structured prompts instead of aimless journaling

✅ Create a personal record of decisions and lessons

✅ Use AI to improve reflection without outsourcing your thinking

✅ Develop a sustainable 15–30-minute journaling practice

Complete Course Outline

Mini-Course 1: Decision Journaling 101

Build the foundation for using journaling as a practical decision-making system.

• Why writing is an effective tool for creating clarity
• How journaling interrupts repetitive mental loops
• The six types of decisions you can make
• One-Way Door versus Two-Way Door decisions
• Identifying decisions that require deeper analysis
• The seven-step process for reaching clarity in 90 minutes
• Turning unclear thoughts into specific questions
• Moving from reflection to committed action

Mini-Course 2: How to Journal

Learn the tactical process for turning a blank page into a useful decision-making session.

• Choosing an effective physical or digital journaling tool
• Treating decision-making as a trainable skill
• Structuring journal entries around specific decisions
• Identifying fears, assumptions and competing priorities
• Applying nine decision-making mental models
• Evaluating alternatives and potential consequences
• Strengthening your independent judgment
• Building a consistent journaling habit

Mini-Course 3: Journaling with AI

Use artificial intelligence to enhance your thinking without surrendering responsibility for the final decision.

• Using AI as a reflective thinking partner
• The Decision Journaling AI technology stack
• Four recommended AI tools
• Two ways to use AI for better decision-making
• Asking AI questions that reveal missing perspectives
• Avoiding dependence on automated advice
• Protecting and rebuilding self-trust
• The Decision Journaling AI Mega Prompt

The official program delivers these three mini-courses through text and video lessons inside a private Skool group, with self-paced and lifetime access advertised.

Included Bonuses

Bonus 1: Dickie Bush’s Journaling Process

Go behind the scenes of Dickie’s personal decision-journaling routine.

• His morning journaling process
• Frequently used prompts
• Real examples from his private journals
• The entry connected to leaving his reported $190,000-a-year job
• Frameworks for business, relationship and life decisions

Bonus 2: Nicolas Cole’s Journaling Process

See how Cole applies journaling across business, creativity and personal wellbeing.

• His personal journaling setup
• Frameworks for different decision types
• Examples drawn from his journals
• The process behind his decision to close a reported $3 million agency
• Approaches for health, creative and business decisions

Bonus 3: Private Decision Journaling Community

• Lifetime access to the private Skool community
• Discussions with other thoughtful decision-makers
• Space to share lessons and journaling breakthroughs
• Peer support while implementing the frameworks

Who Is This Course For?

Decision Journaling is ideal for:

• Entrepreneurs making high-stakes business decisions
• Creators deciding which ideas and opportunities to pursue
• Professionals considering career changes
• Leaders who want to improve strategic judgment
• Overthinkers experiencing analysis paralysis
• Regular journalers who want more structured frameworks
• Beginners with no previous journaling experience
• Anyone who repeatedly seeks advice but still feels uncertain