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.

Yes, I love it! Good morning, dear. Good morning, and welcome to the Steps to Success episode 8.

Throughout the last two thousand episodes of Join Up Dots, it's become clear to me that certain

traits are demonstrated time and time again. It doesn't matter if it's from an online

marketer, an astronaut, athlete, or entrepreneur. You can find that within the person being

interviewed on the show, they all display the same attributes that build success.

And over the last few months, we've been bringing you the Join Up Dots definitive guide

to success series highlighting those developed strengths, which you can duplicate in your

own life, take the learnings and struggles of the super achievers, and work on each and every

one as you bring them into your own life. Use their skills to shine the light on your own success,

and to take you to wherever you dream to be. Now, in today's episode, we're going to be

discussing something that is, it's quite obviously, I think, one of the biggest, if not the

biggest steps to success. Now, I look at it now, and I think should have done it as episode one,

it doesn't matter, it's still within there, but this is one that you've really got to focus in on.

And that is taking responsibility for what occurs to you. And you can hear, I say, occurs to you.

Now, through life, we are being bombarded with opportunities, we've been bombarded with things

that just naturally go away, and that's all great. That's brilliant. But there's also times,

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