{"id":2030,"date":"2010-05-21T05:02:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2010-05-21T05:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T11:02:49","slug":"how-to-start-your-own-business-step-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/how-to-start-your-own-business-step-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start Your Own Business: Step 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tabloid-broadsheet.com\/images\/core_skills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"181\" \/>Alright, for the past couple of days I\u2019ve been advocating a \u201cmind your own business\u201d mentality rather than a \u201cwork for the man\u201d attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this important?\u00a0 It\u2019s because we need people just like you, with talent, faith, and heart to create more businesses that meet the gaping needs that we see in our society.\u00a0 And they are growing every single day.\u00a0 They are everywhere, all around you.<\/p>\n<p>So, here\u2019s the first thing you need to start a great business: you need a core.\u00a0 And here is why a core is important.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A set of beliefs and values help <strong>define for you the way life ought to be<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These beliefs and values <strong>give you a starting point or an anchor<\/strong> from which to view the world as it is.<\/li>\n<li>The gap that exists between the world as it should be according to your beliefs and values, and how it really is as you look out at it every day, <strong>becomes the market into which your new company can thrive.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A core <strong>helps your business know what is ever-changing<\/strong> as opposed to what is never-changing.\u00a0 Beliefs and values endure.\u00a0 Technologies and strategies morph and evolve.<\/li>\n<li>Your core and how you relate it to the real world <strong>is your unique perspective.<\/strong> It\u2019s how you see how things can be, as opposed to how they are.\u00a0 So at the very heart of every great enterprise are a set of core beliefs and values.\u00a0 These beliefs and values represent the foundation, the fundamentals, the big \u201cwhy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember, people don\u2019t pay premium prices for Apple products just because they\u2019re shiny. They\u2019re attracted to them because <strong>there\u2019s a very well-defined set of core beliefs and values<\/strong> that the people who own and use those products care about and <em>are willing to pay for<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, for the past couple of days I\u2019ve been advocating a \u201cmind your own business\u201d mentality rather than a \u201cwork for the man\u201d attitude. Why is this important?\u00a0 It\u2019s because we need people just like you, with talent, faith, and heart to create more businesses that meet the gaping needs that we see in our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/how-to-start-your-own-business-step-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Start Your Own Business: Step 1&#8221;<\/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\/2030"}],"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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}