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 dots yeah good morning to you

good morning to you and welcome to the join up dot podcast little bit late today it's about lunchtime

and we're getting this podcast episode out uh off to see katie perry up in london tonight and still

haven't had the ticket through. Is that bad?

Is that how it is nowadays that you literally get the tickets five minutes beforehand?

Slightly on edge. Slightly on edge that something's gone untoward. But hey-ho, we'll find out.

It is what it is. What I wanted to talk about today was something that I've learned the hard way.

I've quit my job.

What I tried to do in join up dots is make it really transparent that if you start creating

your own business and income streams, sometimes you can go off track.

That's why when we talk to our interviewees, a lot of

times we talk about that moment when they realized that they actually created a prison for themselves

where they quit their job and then suddenly was working three times as hard, trying to get things

going before they sort of assess and pull back and get back on track.

Well, I thought today would be quite interesting that I give you the 10 things that I think

would have been so useful for somebody to have given me before I quit because I still remember the moment I handed in my

notice. It was a Monday morning and I remember that I'd been thinking about it all weekend and I'd had

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