A decision matrix helps you step back and take a more logical approach. By breaking your options into measurable criteria, it eliminates the “gut feeling” factor that can sometimes lead us astray.

A decision matrix can help you narrow a number of choices down to one—particularly, Drader says, when the amount of work tasks in front of you are making you feel paralyzed by “overwhelm.” ...

The couple identified 22 factors to consider in selecting an apartment and assigned each one a different weight.

When Terese Lawry and Jacob Falkovich suddenly found out they had to move in August — a miscommunication between Lawry, a doctoral student in biology at Columbia University, and the housing ...