The Decision Matrix
The reason, the mechanism and the system. One page that turns an objective into something you can achieve, one action at a time.
Most athletes can tell me what they want. Far fewer can tell me why it matters to them, how it will actually happen, and what they will do about it.
Four answers, one page
Most athletes I meet can tell me what they want. Far fewer can tell me why it matters to them, how it will actually happen, and what they will do about it this week. The gap between those four answers is where goals go to die.
The Decision Matrix is the one-page tool I use to close that gap. It asks three questions about any objective, in order, and it doesn't let you skip one.
Fill it in once, properly, and you have a plan you can run without me. Fill it in before every season and you have a career.
Reason. Mechanism. System.
Why this, and why you? The answer that is still true on the bad days. If the reason belongs to a parent, a coach, or a younger version of you, the matrix will show you that first.
What has to change, in you or around you, for the objective to be possible. Not the training plan; the thing the training plan depends on.
The repeatable things you do, week in and week out, that make the mechanism happen. Written so a camera could film you doing them.
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Dave Diggle is a high-performance mind coach. He was Mental Performance Coach to the Wallabies, competed for Great Britain as a gymnast, and has spent 25 years with Olympians, world champions and professional teams. He built and teaches the sports psychology module inside the University of Sydney's elite coaching degree, and hosts the Brain in the Game podcast.