This is the Do It Scared Podcast with Ruth Sucup episode number 25.

In today's episode, we are going to talk about how taking full responsibility of how you respond to whatever happens to you might just be the most important thing you ever do.

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Hey there and welcome back to the Do It Scared Podcast. My name is Ruth Zucup and I am the

founder of Living Well Spending Less and the Living Well Planner as well as the

founder of Elite Log Academy and the New York Times best-selling author of five and very, very soon

to be six books.

So whether you are new and just finding me through this podcast for the very first time or whether you've known me for a while

from Living While Spending Less or Elite Blog Academy. I just want to say welcome.

My hope is that this is a place where you will find new inspiration and motivation to move past

the things that are holding you back so that you can create a life you love. In today's episode we are going to be talking about a topic that

seems to come up a lot in the soup-up household because it seems like a lesson that

I am constantly trying to hammer into my kids.

Maybe you can relate to that.

So what is it?

It's learning how to take complete and total ownership of your life and full responsibility for all the choices that you make and everything that happens to you,

because in the end, you can't control what other people do or what other people say,

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