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For the past several days I\u2019ve been talking about a change in mindset from a \u201cwork for the man\u201d mentality to a \u201cmind my own business\u201d mentality.<\/p>\nFor the past several days I\u2019ve been talking about a change in mindset from a \u201cwork for the man\u201d mentality to a \u201cmind my own business\u201d mentality.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s more important than ever to realize that whatever you do, wherever you go, wherever you show up to practice what it is you do in the world, you\u2019re in business for yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of you will even want to start a business. The question is, \u201cHow do you do it?\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve talked about the four steps.<\/p>\n You start with a set of core values<\/strong> and beliefs; things that you know to be true about how the world ought to be.\u00a0 Then you compare that to how the world really is.\u00a0 And the gap between how the world really should be according to your core values and beliefs and how it is according to reality around you, is where your cause <\/strong>will arise.<\/p>\n So with core beliefs and values, you add to that a sense of calling<\/strong> to step into the gap to do something about what\u2019s not right about the world.\u00a0 To help, to lift, to create, to make something of your life: that would be your cause.<\/p>\n The final stage in starting your own business is condui<\/strong>t.\u00a0 In other words you need a way – services, products – to deliver to the people you\u2019re trying to help, the help you\u2019re trying to deliver.<\/p>\n For example if your calling is to be a songwriter, then your conduit is words; actually writing songs and finding ways to get those songs published, recorded, and then out the the public.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s say that your cause and calling is to make widgets.\u00a0 Then you need a conduit; maybe a factory, a vendor, wholesalers, salespeople, marketing.<\/p>\n Maybe you\u2019re calling and cause is to help the banjo replace the guitar.\u00a0 You\u2019ll need a conduit for that.\u00a0 On and on this concept can go.<\/p>\n A conduit can be anything that helps you deliver your solution<\/strong>, your product, to as many people as possible who desperately want and need the solution you\u2019re offering.<\/p>\n So think about it.\u00a0 If you\u2019re sick and tired of sitting in the rush hour traffic, and would rather spend those hours in the day, week, and year investing in something important and productive, then just maybe you need to stop \u201cworking for the man\u201d and start \u201cminding your own business.\u201d<\/p>\n People often ask me, \u201cHow do you do that when you\u2019re already engaged in a job?\u201d\u00a0 And I respond, \u201cEverybody needs at least two jobs; the job they have, and the job they\u2019re going to have.\u201d\u00a0 And the job you\u2019re going to have can be created while you\u2019re engaged in the job you have. <\/strong> And one day there will be a moment of truth when your second job will begin to dominate and overtake your first job.\u00a0 And then you can make the leap into a new world and career.<\/p>\n But here is my warning: Everything great begins small, obscure, ignored, and under-funded.\u00a0 The challenge is to bootstrap your dream when no one else wants to be involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past several days I\u2019ve been talking about a change in mindset from a \u201cwork for the man\u201d mentality to a \u201cmind my own business\u201d mentality. It\u2019s more important than ever to realize that whatever you do, wherever you go, wherever you show up to practice what it is you do in the world, … Continue reading “How to Start Something Big: The Final and Most Exciting Step 4”<\/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\/2102"}],"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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}