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Developing a manifesto or mission statement

Developing a manifesto or mission statement

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Developing a manifesto or mission statement

- [Chris] So I think one of the best places to begin to develop your own manifesto or mission statement is to define your roles. Think about the different things that you do: wedding photography, family photography, food photography, whatever it is. Next, brainstorm your core values. What do you really care about? And then, put that all together: articulate some sort of a mission statement or manifesto or combination of the two. So to show you an example, what I want to do is walk through how I would do this for myself. And here's what this might look like for me. Well the three things that I basically do, I'm a photographer, an author, and a teacher. So I would first identify my different roles. Then next I would say, okay, within that space, within those different roles, what are my core values and how can I then come up with some sort of mission statement or manifesto for those? Well I have a lot of different core values. But what you want to do is just brainstorm some. So here are…

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