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others? Why are you likely to follow through when a deadline
is near? Why do you make false tomorrow promises to your-
self? Why do you use excuses when you procrastinate?

• What types of conditions trigger your procrastination? What
diversionary activities do you engage in? What follows the di-
versions? What happens next? What is the average length of
time that you delay? What have you learned from this inquiry?

• How questions are directed toward accomplishing results.
This is where you turn knowledge into know-how by
stopping procrastination from interfering with the creation
of high-priority work products. How do you address procras-
tination thinking? How do you emotionally tough it out?
How do you behave differently?

Adding “and Then” to the Analysis. You can expand your analysis of
procrastination by tracking procrastination with follow-up and then
questions. The following describes the process.

Target: Putting off learning a new word processing program
required for your job.
Reason: You believe that learning the program will be frustrating
and you’ll feel clumsy doing it.

Here’s how the and then process can be applied to the sample
frustration and clumsiness beliefs example: