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Sometimes when asking for advice it is hard to make a good decision based others people’s opinions, as there are so many of them. A great tool for sorting out the opinions and making a sound decision is to create a decision matrix.

On the left hand side are all of the your possible decision alternatives or options. Next enter the determining factors or requirements that you are interested in along the top. You then need to decide the weight (scale 1-10) for each factor.

The final entries are for your opinions (scale of 1-10) of what your think a given factor ranks or meets your factor or requirement.

By multiplying the rank by the weight and totaling up all the factors for each option, it is easy to see what option will meet you requirements.

Example: