Creating Your Foundations
Yes, having business foundations are important – but that doesn't mean you have to follow a certain way of working!
Create your own foundations 😁
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Foundations aren't meant to be dictated to you.
Jonathan Stewart:You're not meant to be told what foundations are the correct foundations.
Jonathan Stewart:If you look at the origin of the word foundations, it's all about laying
Jonathan Stewart:the basis of and establishing to set to place to make, to lay the bottom of
Jonathan Stewart:something and that is something that is incredibly important in your business.
Jonathan Stewart:But it's got to be laid from a foundation of you.
Jonathan Stewart:From the way that you work, not dictated to you by someone who
Jonathan Stewart:doesn't understand all of the pieces and the way that you work.
Jonathan Stewart:What is it that you love to do?
Jonathan Stewart:How do you work best when you're helping your clients?
Jonathan Stewart:Is it through one-to-one calls or is it through Voxer or other tools?
Jonathan Stewart:Now there will be times where there are things you gotta do
Jonathan Stewart:when you don't want to do them.
Jonathan Stewart:That is obviously part of what you have in business.
Jonathan Stewart:But when that happens, how can you make it as easy for you as possible?
Jonathan Stewart:What foundation can you use to support you in doing something that you may not
Jonathan Stewart:enjoy quite as much, and that allows you to get back to doing what you do love.
Jonathan Stewart:What foundations can you put in place that fit the way that you work?
Jonathan Stewart:A good example of this for me is this podcast.
Jonathan Stewart:I adore making videos however, the amount of time, it takes
Jonathan Stewart:me to edit it 's not fun.
Jonathan Stewart:I don't enjoy it.
Jonathan Stewart:Whereas this podcast allows me to just hit record.
Jonathan Stewart:I don't have to worry about how I look and how I feel.
Jonathan Stewart:I can just hit record and have it in here.
Jonathan Stewart:I love that on previous episodes, I use tools to support me in that way.
Jonathan Stewart:Currently I'm recording in de script, which means I just have to
Jonathan Stewart:come in, open it up, press record.
Jonathan Stewart:And I've also got preset.
Jonathan Stewart:Things that just make life easier for me.
Jonathan Stewart:So I press a couple of buttons.
Jonathan Stewart:And automatically I have a publishable episode.
Jonathan Stewart:Your foundations are based on the way that you work.
Jonathan Stewart:And that starts from what you want, what you have and what you want to do.
Jonathan Stewart:There are so many things that we have to do on a daily basis as business owners.
Jonathan Stewart:And sometimes it's easy just to go, oh, I have to do this
Jonathan Stewart:because somebody else told me to.
Jonathan Stewart:Don't want to go it alone, reach out to me at simplicity.
Jonathan Stewart:Dash specialist.com.
