WHEN

Generate a new option by changing the sequence, timing, or trigger of the action.

The raise conversation you have rehearsed for months keeps not happening. Your plan is solid, the numbers are researched, but you have imagined it only one way: walking into your manager's office some generic Tuesday. Since no Tuesday ever feels right, the plan stays parked and your resentment quietly compounds.

WHEN produces a new option by changing the sequence, timing, or trigger of an action, holding everything else constant. In the framework's option sentence, this edits the "when and under what condition" slot. The cue is a fully formed plan that stalls because its timing is vague or arbitrary. Run it three ways: change the timing (right after the quarterly results land, when your big project ships), change the sequence (first ask for a scope expansion, raise second), or attach a trigger so it fires automatically ("when my review invite arrives, I book 15 extra minutes on the agenda"). Each version is a distinct candidate with different odds. What changes visibly is that a stalled plan gains a launch condition and stops depending on courage arriving spontaneously. Do not use this as a costume for avoidance; if every new timing you generate is later, the spec's answer is to name that delay honestly and give it a deadline.