I talk a lot about responsibility. It’s a recurring theme because it’s absolutely critical to achieving big success, yet so many businesses people that I meet willingly give away responsibility for their future and their lives.

They do it sub-consciously most of the time. It comes out and shows itself though , in how they talk about themselves and their businesses. So many things are someone else’s fault. Let me tell you now, no-one ever got rich blaming someone or something else. Ever!

“There’s still no work. People just aren’t spending money on extensions,” a local builder explained to me as he cried into his pint.

“Businesses in my town won’t spend £99 a month on marketing”, someone else whined to me last week.

With this attitude you can never run a super successful business or be rich. Life will always be hard. That’s big price to pay for absolving yourself of blame.