John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Personal Success

Follow-up test

Developing a personal sense of time

• Have you become fully aware of the value of your time – and other people's time?
• Are you clear about your chief aim?
• Do you now know what you should be busy about – in a word, your business?
• Do you allow a sufficient amount of time for quiet thought and reflection?

Major time savers

• Are you able to say ‘no’ with firmness and politeness?
• Have you developed your skills of delegation?
• Do you avoid wasting other people's time by always doing what you commit yourself to doing?
• ‘Procrastination is the thief of time.’ How much of your time is it stealing at present?
• How much of your time do you invest in fruitless regrets about what is now past history?
• Can you recall an instance when you found ...