A decision lens for men carrying real responsibility

You may not be failing.You may be overpaying.

See the tradeoff you are already inside, and price it while you still have options.

Performance
what you deliver
Reality
what you carry
Becoming
who your tradeoffs are building
01 The question

What is the price,and is it worth it?

That is the only question that matters, across the three places the bill lands: performance, reality, and becoming.

Your position is the deal you are already in: the load, the pace, the promises, the man it is making of you.

Only Tradeoffs THE DECISION LENS Performance what you deliver Reality what you carry Becoming who your tradeoffs build
The Simple Core Map
02 The diagnostic
Performance Reality Becoming
The Diagnostic Question Map
The only question
What is the price, and is it worth it?
Run the map. Seven questions, one lens.
03 The method

Seven passes over one position.

One position, seven passes, and a first move you can stand behind.

The Position / Tradeoff Design Map
01

Price the position

What is the price, and is it worth it?

02

Find the hidden bill

The cost rarely lands where the decision was made. Where is yours landing?

03

Separate edge from leakage

Is this tradeoff creating advantage, or quietly leaking?

04

Check fit and buffer

Does it fit your ledger, with room to absorb a shock?

05

Lead the tension

Two legitimate goods are colliding. Which two, and who is leading?

06

Keep, renegotiate, redesign, or release

Not every cost should be kept. What does this one earn?

07

Choose the first move

What is the smallest move that improves the position?

04 The memo
The Read
Every Tuesday  ·  less than four minutes

One current situation, priced through the lens.

05 The work

Three ways to price your position.

01 · Free

Capacity does not vanish. It gets committed, usually without anyone deciding to commit it.

Where Your Capacity Is Going

A short, free read of where your current position may be overcharging you. Sixteen questions. A recognition, not a lecture.

Free Take the scorecard.
02 · One session

Every arrangement charges something. Most of them never send an invoice.

The Bill, Itemised

Fifty minutes on the position you are actually in, and you leave with a move you have chosen.

One 50 minute session  ·  AUD 495 (plus tax where applicable)
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03 · Monthly

A position that is moving does not stay read.

Monthly Retainer

The work that continues, month by month, shaped to the position before it starts and priced with the shape. A small number at a time.

Ongoing  ·  By enquiry
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06 The seat

The lens

I spent a decade pricing risk on a trading desk, where the only question that paid was: what is this position really costing, and is it worth it. This is the same lens, turned on the positions men carry in work, body, marriage, money, and the man they are becoming.

Background
A decade as a proprietary trader.
Mentoring
Mentoring traders since 2017.
07 From the desk
THE DEVELOPING TRADER BUILD JUDGEMENT, MAKE HARD TRADEOFFS, AND STOP TAKING THE COST PERSONALLY You're looking for the wrong kind of answer. MICHAEL BARRETT

The Developing Trader

Trading is a judgement business that most people try to win with answers. The Developing Trader works on the judgement itself: how to price a position, make hard tradeoffs, and stop taking the cost personally.

08 In plain terms

Please: research, think, decide and act for yourself.

Any decision(s) and/or action(s) you take or don't take, as a result of interacting with me or my content, are 100% your choice and responsibility.

My knowledge of your personal circumstances sits between "non-existent" and "extremely limited".

Michael Barrett