{"id":2015,"date":"2010-05-18T05:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2010-05-18T05:34:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:34:16","slug":"how-to-adopt-a-mind-your-own-business-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/how-to-adopt-a-mind-your-own-business-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Adopt a Mind-Your-Own-Business Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One of the things I am learning as I get older is that people can fit into two very distinct categories.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen them evident during the recent flood in our city.\u00a0 It\u2019s the \u201cwork-for-the-man\u201d <\/strong>mentality, and the \u201cmind-your-own-business\u201d <\/strong>mentality.<\/p>\n

I was raised with the \u201cwork-for-the-man\u201d mentality which basically says you show up, you put in time, and people pay you whatever they think you\u2019re worth.<\/p>\n

So the worth of your life, the worth of your work was set by the market forces outside of you. Most of the people with the \u201cwork-for-the-man\u201d mentality think they are underpaid.\u00a0 And sometimes they are.\u00a0 But oftentimes they are not because they just show up without the desire to produce anything, create anything, or generate any wealth.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another mentality that says that I should mind my own business. And I don\u2019t mean just to not meddle in someone else\u2019s affairs, but that I work for myself.\u00a0 As a person of faith of course I believe I work for and serve God.\u00a0 But that having been said, I work for myself.\u00a0 That\u2019s why as a young pastor I\u2019ve never been good at working for deacon boards and other out of date committee structures.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why when threatened to conform or be fired, I of course chose to be fired.<\/p>\n

Having gone through the ups and downs of being in business for myself, I\u2019ll tell you that I will choose being in business over working for someone else. It\u2019s the exhilaration that comes from knowing that you get up every day and add value<\/strong>, that you help people, or you die.<\/p>\n

I think more Christians should adopt a mind-my-own-business mentality<\/strong>. That is to start something important and significant, to meet big needs, to create companies that hire people and pay taxes and help lift society.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the preachers in the pulpits or the singers in the band; it\u2019s the business men and women motivated for the right reasons: to build something of their lives, to make something of themselves that will save our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I am learning as I get older is that people can fit into two very distinct categories.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen them evident during the recent flood in our city.\u00a0 It\u2019s the \u201cwork-for-the-man\u201d mentality, and the \u201cmind-your-own-business\u201d mentality. I was raised with the \u201cwork-for-the-man\u201d mentality which basically says you show up, you put … Continue reading “How to Adopt a Mind-Your-Own-Business Mentality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}