Productivity Tool: The Delay Decoder, 11 page Guide
Understand What's Really Driving Your Procrastination. Identify the emotion behind your delay and respond with the right strategy. 11-page printable PDF. Includes self-assessment, matched strategies, next steps, and coaching guide.
Product Details
You've tried productivity systems, apps, and "just do it" discipline. They keep failing. You beat yourself up, promise to do better, and end up right back where you started.
This tool gives you a different approach.
The Delay Decoder is a self-assessment designed for coaches, their clients, and those interested in their own self-development. Based on research by Sirois & Pychyl (2013) and Eckert et al. (2016), it identifies which of four emotions is driving your procrastination and matches you to strategies that actually work for your pattern.
What You Get:
- The Assessment - Twenty questions that reveal which delay pattern is driving your avoidance. Each question includes descriptions to help you pinpoint exactly where you land.
- Matched Strategies - Specific approaches for your pattern. What helps. What doesn't. No generic productivity advice.
- Next Steps - How to apply what you've learned, signs of progress to watch for, and guidance for when this tool isn't enough.
- For Coaches - How to introduce the tool, what to listen for beyond the scores, reflection prompts, and common traps to avoid.
Why this Works:
Most productivity advice treats procrastination as a discipline problem. It's not. It's an emotional avoidance pattern - and the emotion driving your delay determines what will actually help. Fear needs a different response than boredom. Shame requires a different approach than resentment. Generic advice fails because it doesn't address what's really going on.