Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance (Hardcover)

Introduction xi

Secret #1: God Wants Each of Us to Be Obsessively Preoccupied with the Needs and Desires of His Other Children 1

Secret #2: An Infinite God created us in His image with infinite imagination, potential, creative power, and desires 5

Secret #3: Humans Alone Possess the Ability to Transform Themselves 9

Secret #4: The Universe Was Created for Connection 17

Secret #5: Making Money Is a Spiritual Activity 28

Secret #6: Everything Important and Joyful You Have Achieved Has Been in Partnership with at Least One Other Person 35

Secret #7: Focus on Other People’s Needs and Desires, and You Will Never, Ever Be Short of What You Yourself Desire and Need 44

Secret #8: Become a People Person 53

Secret #9: We Love the People Whom We Help More Than We Love Those Who Help Us 64

Secret #10: Life Isn’t About What You Know—It’s About Who You Are 71

Secret #11: In Order to Achieve Success, We Must and Can Build Up Our Self-Discipline, Integrity, and Character Strength 80

Secret #12: Your Authentic Identity Requires Other People 92

Secret #13: Know How Business Works; Understand Specialization and Cooperation 96

Secret #14: Each and Every One of Us Is in Business and Should Act Like a Business Professional 107

Secret #15: Develop All Four Dimensions of Your Life Simultaneously 111

Secret #16: Earnings and Profits Are God’s Way of Rewarding Us for Forming Relationships with Others and Serving Them Faithfully and Effectively 121

Secret #17: Raise the Limits on Yourself and Others by Imposing Boundaries and Structures 128

Secret #18: The Importance of Service Is That You Cannot Lead If You Cannot Follow 136

Secret #19: Vision Is Necessary; Sharing That Vision Is Not Always Necessary 140

Secret #20: The Most Important Organ of Leadership Is Your Mouth 146

Secret #21: Change Is Scary 151

Secret #22: As Painful as Change Can Be, It Often Contains the Seeds of Growth 158

Secret #23: Because Change Is a Constant Reality, Life Is More Accurately Depicted by a Video Than a Photograph 162

Secret #24: The More that Things Change, the More We Must Depend Upon Those Things That Never Change 168

Secret #25: Press Forward Even When the Road Ahead Is Not Clear 177

Secret #26: Do Not Let Your Fear Conquer You—Press On 185

Secret #27: Become Strongly, Even Radically, Open to New Directions, Soft Sounds, and Faint Footsteps 190

Secret #28: Use the Power of Words, Sentences, and Sound 198

Secret #29: Feeling Right About Money Makes You Act Right 205

Secret #30: You Can Best Attract That Which You Best Understand 214

Secret #31: You Must Know Your Money, Which You Must Be Able to Measure and Count 219

Secret #32: Money Is Spiritual 223

Secret #33: Don’t Live Beyond Your Means—Give Beyond Your Means 233

Secret #34: Giving Money Away Makes You Feel Wealthy 238

Secret #35: How You Feel About Yourself Is How Others Will See You 243

Secret #36: Giving Money Away Automatically Connects Us with Other People 246

Secret #37: If There Is No Hebrew Word for Something, Then That Thing Does Not Exist 254

Secret #38: Retirement Is Unhealthy 261

Secret #39: You Can Ruin Today by Planning Bad Things for Tomorrow 265

Secret #40: Retirement Tends to Isolate You 271

Final Thoughts 283

About the Author 285

Index 287