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Are You a Self-Saboteur?
Take this questionnaire to get clear on what you may be doing to undermine your own success and happiness in life. An explanation of your score awaits at the end. 1. When someone offers help you usually 2. Your level of organization is 3. If someone gives you a key contact, you 4. When opportunity knocks 5. The idea of being prepared, i.e. keeping an extra clean suit handy, having a beeper, always keeping extra promotion materials on hand, seems 6. The idea that someday you will be successful enough to call your own shots seems 7. When an important project begins to reach some kind of climax, as it nears its conclusion, you Scoring:
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