{"id":2040,"date":"2010-05-24T05:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2010-05-21T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:04:39","slug":"how-to-start-something-big-step-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/how-to-start-something-big-step-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start Something Big: Step 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The very first thing you need to start a great company is a set of core beliefs and values<\/strong>.\u00a0 These are the never-changing<\/em> part of your life that equip you to face the ever-changing<\/em> realities of the 21st Century world.<\/p>\n

The second thing you absolutely need to start a great business is a calling<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is what makes these core beliefs personal.\u00a0 There are core beliefs everywhere; in the Bible, the Talmud, the Koran.\u00a0 There are rule books, books on best practices that all of us can access.\u00a0 There are true statements floating around everywhere.\u00a0 And just because they are true doesn\u2019t mean that they do anything to change the world. It\u2019s when beliefs get down in your soul <\/strong>and you sense a calling to those beliefs; to that little part of the world that has a gaping need, injustice, or wrong that what you believe and what you are can change.<\/p>\n

A calling will help you prevail through the adversities<\/strong> that always come in any start-up business,\u00a0 because life likes to kill great companies in the infant stage.\u00a0 And usually the first attack is not on the mission, but on the missionary; not on a vision, but on a visionary.\u00a0 That\u2019s why you need a calling down deep inside; an inner conviction that you have been called to this, that you are here for this purpose on the planet: a core and a calling fused together in a mighty force of self-determination, emotional initiative, and intellectual focus to create a fire that burns bright within you.\u00a0 And until that fire burns bright in you, you can\u2019t expect it to burn bright in anyone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we\u2019re looking for in our world; not more executives, not more information, we need to be inspired<\/strong>.\u00a0 We yearn for it. We go to church for it, we read the Bible to gain it, we buy books to receive it.\u00a0 And the man or woman with a core set of beliefs and a calling is unstoppable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The very first thing you need to start a great company is a set of core beliefs and values.\u00a0 These are the never-changing part of your life that equip you to face the ever-changing realities of the 21st Century world. The second thing you absolutely need to start a great business is a calling.\u00a0 This … Continue reading “How to Start Something Big: Step 2”<\/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\/2040"}],"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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}