Life shouldn't be hard. Life should be a fun-filled adventure every day. So now start joining up dots.

Tap into your talents, your skills, your God-given gifts, and tell your boss, you don't deserve me.

I'm out of here. It's time for you to smash that alarm clock and start getting the dream business and life you will of course

are dreaming of. Let's join your host, David Ralph, from the back of his garden in the UK, or wherever

he might be today, with another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast, Join Up Dot.

Yeah, good morning, dear, good morning, Jim.

Welcome to the old Join Up Dot's podcast.

Now, if you listen to the last episode, you will have heard real people from all over the world who finally got it.

They didn't get rich.

They haven't blown their life up.

They didn't suddenly find a perfect business idea,

but they worked out a number.

And once I had that number,

everything else stopped feeling urgent.

Now, what is that number?

Well, if you want to know what that number is, you can either keep on listening or you can jump back and listen to the other podcast. Where were you? Anyway, today I want to walk you through

exactly how to calculate your number, not in a spreadsheety kind of finance guru way, but just in a human, real-life

way that will actually make sense to you because this number isn't about ambition. This number is

about breathing space, calmness, freedom. I can't emphasize it enough. Once you know your number, your financial number

that you need to survive, keep the lights on, then everything starts from that point. All the

freedom that you want in your life starts from that point. Not the big idea.

Because most people chase income without actually knowing why. They say things like, yeah,

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