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

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