Podcasts about thou shalt prosper

This week on the Shed Geek Podcast, we highlight an inspiring story that underscores the power of positive experiences and their role in generating word-of-mouth referrals. We also explore the essential product knowledge that new shed dealers must grasp to navigate the industry's unique challenges and opportunities. Tune in to learn how maintaining a positive attitude and recognizing dedicated employees can significantly boost your company's reputation.Moving beyond the initial sale is crucial for sustained success. Drawing from my upcoming appearance on "The Blocks," we delve into the often-overlooked importance of post-sale customer engagement. By fostering strong relationships with existing customers, you can unlock a treasure trove of future sales through referrals. Hear how marketing experts like Dylan from Shed Geek Marketing are revolutionizing follow-up strategies, and get tips on avoiding common pitfalls that can hinder customer loyalty.Embrace competition to drive growth! Inspired by Rabbi Daniel Lappin's "Thou Shalt Prosper," we discuss how positioning near competitors, like Tim Hortons beside Starbucks, can lead to mutual success. Learn how this principle applies within the shed industry and hear about the camaraderie and mutual support experienced at the Shed Haulers Bash. Through personal anecdotes and real-life examples, we emphasize that the true competition lies within our mindset, urging you to view competitors not as threats but as catalysts for improvement and innovation.Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube at the handle @shedgeekpodcast.To be a guest on the Shed Geek Podcast visit our website and fill out the "Contact Us" form.To suggest show topics or ask questions you want answered email us at info@shedgeek.com.This episodes Sponsors:Studio Sponsor: Union Grove LumberVersabendCold Spring Enterprises

Experience this week's NB Church, Torah Class with Mitch Ford as he teaches on "Thou Shalt Prosper." Torah Class is now available on Zoom Stay connected with us at Stay connected with us at: www.larryhuchministries.com larryhuchministries.com/resources/#podcast

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Thou Shalt Prosper | Generosity of Kings | Apostle Moses Mukisa

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Thou Shalt Prosper | Apostle Moses Mukisa

Experience this week's NB Church, Torah Class with Mitch Ford as he teaches on "Thou Shalt Prosper - Principles of Success." Torah Class is now available on Zoom Stay connected with us at Stay connected with us at: www.larryhuchministries.com larryhuchministries.com/resources/#podcast

Never Retire! You can retire if you want (this isn't advice one way or another) but, if you do plan to retire, what does that mean for you? What do you even mean by “retirement”? Book suggestion: Thou Shalt Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin In this quick take we discuss retirement, passive income and the Infinite Banking Concept. There's another way. Become your own banker. If you have any topics you'd like to see covered, if you have any questions concerning this video or another or if you would like to request a webinar meeting to personally discuss how you can practice the Infinite Banking Concept as described in R. Nelson Nash's book Becoming Your Own Banker, please contact us at: https://linktr.ee/durhamtalents Email: durhamtalents@gmail.com Phone: 828-817-4223 All content on this channel is for informational purposes only. Please contact your own Attorney, Financial Planner, Tax Consultant, or other appropriate professional as necessary.

"Sin Tastes Good" to this gifted corporate flight attendant! Relax, this isn't going to be some steamy look at the secret life of flight attendants! It's merely the title of her new book!But you're going to be moved by the wave of miracles that led to her landing a plum corporate jet flight attendant job with absolutely no experience! You other corporate flight attendants will know how tough that is and how seldom it happens without divine help! And you probably can't wait to hear why she named her book "Sin Tastes Good" so listen up to her tell the story. I met Reina through my friendship with Christina Brown, a corporate flight attendant who started the Aviation Wellness online community. We start out with her talking about being raised in the country of Brunei, where her father flew the Sultan of Brunei’s corporate jet and where she hung out with the princes and princesses in that country.She did that job for 5 years and it took her around the world, laying over for 6 weeks at a time in places like southern France, writing her book and singing in a church that she stumbled across during one of her fabulous layovers. One of the powerful parts of her interview is when she talks about how to have peace in the midst of the furlough chaos that has taken place in the aviation industry and how her peace principles apply in any other circumstance for that matter. That part of her interview reminded me very much of one of the Ebooks I’m creating with a co-author on Amazon titled "How to Maintain Calm Amidst Increasing Chaos." It’s the start of a series that spins off into Calm Amidst Aviation Chaos, Calm Amidst Entrepreneurial Chaos, etc. You can check it out here: http://amzn.to/3hFF7YrI get inspired by all the people I interview but my time with Reina was very special in the way she describes her life and the application of the principles in her book; it hit me hard, maybe because of what we’re all going through right now. You'll hear about her relationship with Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his book "Thou Shalt Prosper"; it’s definitely on my to-read list as well as Reina’s, "Sin Tastes Good" (Come on, how could you pass up a book with a title like that!?)So kick back, take a deep breath and set aside about 30 minutes, to hear about the miracles that show up for Reina and how you can apply them to your own life. You can contact and follow her on her website at: www.reina-rose.com, on Twitter @ReinaRoseTv, on Instagram at reina_rose_tv and on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/reinarose17And let me know if you like her interview and podcast by sending an email to me at botajet@gmail.com or leave me a message on my website, www.bertbotta.comAnd, know for sure that if you’re listening to this you’re definitely one of my Everyday Heroes!See you on the road or in the skies, I'll know you even with your mask on...

Rabbi Daniel Lapin is a traditional Jewish scholar and the author of Thou Shalt Prosper and Business Secrets from the Bible. In this interview, Rabbi Daniel explains how Jewish wisdom and history clarifies the path for anyone who desires wealth, and he illustrates how economic success is ultimately an issue of character. Find expanded show notes at johnmeese.com

My guest this week is Aaron Walker, author of View From the Top (affiliate link). Aaron is a lifelong businessman, having started fourteen companies, as well as a life coach. In this episode we talk about what it means to be successful and to live a life of significance; the ultimate emptiness of money without an overarching purpose; how to move through fear challenges and setbacks—including some dramatic examples from Aaron’s own life—and the crucial importance of the people we surround ourselves with. Other topics we explored include: How my guest’s definition of success has shifted over time Our need to have challenges and responsibilities in order to thrive The major drawbacks of a life of leisure Aaron’s tragic experience at age 40 of striking and killing a pedestrian The human drive for purpose and significance What it means to have a “view from the top” What was missing from Aaron’s life through his initial periods of success The imperative of picking ourselves up when we encounter challenges and obstacles Isolation as the enemy of excellence Aaron’s decades long friendship with author and radio host Dave Ramsey The importance of having a group where we can be vulnerable and transparent How to find or start a Mastermind group How to move through self-doubt and insecurity The fear of missing an opportunity vs. fear of failing Fear of success Carol Dweck’s work on fixed vs. growth mindset Visit this website to learn about the Mastermind Playbook that he described in this episode. Here's a link to Dweck's excellent book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Aaron also mentioned Rabbi Daniel Lapin's book, Thou Shalt Prosper (these are affiliate links). Aaron Walker has inspired many people through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He’s been an entrepreneur for 39 years, and has been the owner of eight highly profitable businesses. Aaron attributes much of his success to having surrounded himself with his mastermind counterparts. He spent a decade meeting weekly with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham, and five other amazing entrepreneurs. Aaron is the founder of the Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind that now hosts 15 groups in the US and abroad. He’s been married nearly 40 years and has two daughters and five grandchildren. Aaron is an avid reader and, when time allows, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and golf. Find him online at his website and on Twitter and Facebook.

This week's episode is dedicated to the books we've read this year. We made goals to read more books this year, and we did! Jihae has a goal of 19 for 2019, and Chris has already surpassed that, and Jihae just has 1 more to go. We apologize in advance for the audio issues. Not sure what happened, but it doesn't sound great, and we are sorry about that! 74 episodes in and we still aren't audio/technical wizards. We are actually replacing the original audio file, so if you listened to it before Friday the 8th of November, then you got the super crummy version of this episode. We are working on all these things! So, here is Chris' list of books that he read. The asterisk denotes that Jihae also read that book: Chris' books from 2019: 1- For Men Only- Jeff Feldhaun * 2 Team of Teams- General Stan McChrystal 3- Millionaire Next Door- Thomas J Stanley 4- Everyday millionaire - Chris Hogan (We mentioned "Thou Shalt Prosper" by Daniel Lapin, a great book we both read last year.) 5- You Can’t Make This Up- by Kevin Hart * And one of our FAVORITE books from this year! Worth the listen, as Kevin narrates it on Audible. 6- Tech Wise Family by Andy Crouch * Very good read! 7- 12 rules for life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B Peterson * 8- Mindset by Carol Dweck * Both read this, and it is a MUST-READ in our opinion! 9, 10, 11- 3 Mitch Rapp books by Vince Flynn about an assassin. "No thank you on any of those books" - Jihae 12- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fu&$ - by Mark Manson * Really good read! 13- The Great Courses, Art of war by Andrew Wilson 14- Great Courses- CBT 15- Leadership: Gain Confidence to Influence as a Leader Through Communication Skills and Coaching by Nathan Smart 16- The Connected Child by Karen Purvis * Both read this, and it's in the top 5, and is a Must Read for foster and adoptive families (and parents in general). 17- Garbage Bag Suitcase by Shenandoah Chefalo * Great book. 18- Talk like TED by Carmine Gallo * Great book if you want to improve your public speaking. 19- The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni 20- Good Leaders ask Great questions by John Maxwell 21- Upside Down Crown by Robert Watson * BEST BOOK EVER! :) You can hear from the author on Episode 62. Also the only book he has read with his eyes this year! 22- Essentialism by Greg Mc Keown * Read this book and it's a great one! 23- The 3 Day Effect by Florence Williams. Jihae's books from 2019 (without the ones that overlap with Chris) 1. Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi 2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple  Such a fun read! And read it in paperback! Yay for reading with your eyes! 3. Permission Marketing by Seth Godin 4. Chop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Medcalf Not a great book. It's fine, but not great. 5. None Like Him: 10 Ways God is Different From Us by Jen Wilkin Another fine book, but not my favorite 6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee FINALLY read this, and in paperback! Definitely now know why it's a classic. First 3/4s of the book was very hard to get through! But worth pushing through. 7. Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling Also a paperback book that I read, and it was Amazing! So fun! And she does narrate the audio version, so I bet that is amazing. I will buy this next book on Audible! 8. The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker This is one of my top 5! Definitely worth the read! 9. To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam. Very difficult in parts, but worth the read. And it's pretty long, and mostly looks at foster care in New York.  So, that's it! We truly believe that readers are leaders! But not all leaders are readers, but the best ones are. If you would like to connect with us: Jihae on Facebook Chris on Facebook Fostering Voices on Instagram Jihae on Instagram You can also email us at jihaeandchris@yahoo.com AND we would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on iTunes! This helps others to find our podcast so we can share these voices from the foster care and adoption community with more people!  

I’m going to do a little rant today on a subject that impacts every single one of you every single day.   The success of individuals, families, companies, and nations rises and falls on this subject.  This subject is often not talked about much in the home…sometimes as hush hush or as embarrassingly glossed over in homes and schools as the birds and the bees.  Yet our understanding of this subject has a significant influence on the height of our happiness, the breadth of our impact on the world and the depth of our bank account.   Wanna know what the subject is? Okay, I’ll tell you. It’s a one-word answer. Money. Okay, when I say that word, “Money” what thoughts come to your mind? What emotions fill your heart? I was raised in a religious environment where the prevailing notion about money was that it was somehow evil or at least that it caused a lot of bad things. I actually had a mindset that was a bit afraid of it or at least afraid of having too much of it and I didn’t even know how to define what too much was. But more and more these days, I’m getting these crazy good opportunities to hang around people who have a very different view of money. Shelley, Chellan and I got to spend a couple of days last week at the Prestel and Partner Family Office Forum in San Francisco.  It was hosted on this amazing 100ft yacht in the SF Bay. According to their website, the average Net Worth of the families and individuals at this event was $500M. I have no idea how they know that they sure didn’t ask my Net worth at the door, and it’s probably a good thing as they might not have let me on the ship cause my Networth would have lowered the average too much. Anyway, from how I used to think, you’d think that this would have been some uppity up event with people who were selfishly absorbed in making more money and having cooler stuff.  But it was absolutely the opposite. There were a bunch of normal but ambitious business people but people with a driving passion to make the world a better place through what they do in business and through the money business creates. Honestly, the majority of the presentations and roundtable discussions were all about how to make a bigger positive impact for good on this world. And this wasn’t just for some feel-good stuff. Like we invest to make money but want to have it look like we are doing some good for the world in the process. No, these people are serious about real impact to the point of having very specific ways to measure and report on the impact for good. Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.  The focus is on providing or creating the money needed to address the world’s most pressing challenges. There were presentations and roundtable discussions about how to do this in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, conservation, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, healthcare, and education. Loved hearing one dad talk about how they play this game with their teenage kids where they pick one major problem in society and have a time limit for coming up with out of the box business ideas and plans that could address that challenge in society.  From illiteracy to homelessness, to aids to racial injustice, etc. It was so refreshing and energizing to be around business leaders and families who truly view money as a tool to make society better. So different from the prevailing paradigm I used to have. This made me really wonder, why is it that money seems to get such a bad rap, especially from many well-meaning religious folks? Some people think that the Bible says that money is the root of all evil. In reality, it says: “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.”[i] If when you think about the money you have thoughts of evil or fear it will lead to one path that will miss the power I believe it was intended to do for Good on this earth. Far from being evil, money is meant to be the result of loving people well. It is only when we love money more than we love people that it causes all kinds of problems. Whenever my company begins loving the money more than we love the process of serving our customers and our team, we ultimately end up with all kinds of challenges. That’s why a couple of the core values in every business I’ve led for the last twenty-five years have been to always act in the best interest of our customers, and to always do the right thing regardless of the personal or corporate cost. These are non-negotiable guiding principles that keep money in proper perspective as the measure of how well we are serving people. Sustainable success and positive influence come from putting the needs of other people first. Not every company or business leader thinks that way. Because some people love money more than they love people, the wealth that commerce can create has sometimes been seen as something that is bad. But there is a long tradition of cultures that see business success as the epitome of service to society. Have had the opportunity to get to know several wealthy Jewish families at some of these events.  Interesting to learn more about how the Jewish tradition has no problem with wealth because it is seen as resulting from and producing a great benefit to the community. Rabbi Daniel Lapin wrote a great book I’ve read a couple times now.  Highly recommend it. Thou Shalt Prosper, recounts how money and wealth were viewed throughout the history of the Jews. It's insightful to understand how historic Jewish people understood money and wealth. Money as a Medal Jewish people believed that the wealthiest person in the community was the greatest servant in the community. Wealth was simply a measure of how well and how much you served humanity. Every dollar bill represented a certificate, or medal, proving that you had served someone, just like a military medal received for service to your country. Money was viewed as a medal for giving your life in service to humanity. Thus, in the traditional Jewish paradigm, if you had no money, you were not serving society. In historic Jewish communities, they gave the best seat in the house, the best seat in the synagogue to the wealthiest man. This was not because they were trying to suck up to him. No! It was because they truly saw the wealthiest person as the greatest servant of society, deserving the best seat. Today people often view making a lot of money as a sign of greed and spending money as a curse to avoid. We view spending as a curse because we feel we lose something by doing so, or we feel an aversion to materialism. Yet in the Jewish mindset, spending is a blessing to the world because we are paying for a product or service that adds value in some way to the world. The Tale of Two Tactics for Influence Let's go back in history to some time in the Middle Ages to a little Jewish community somewhere in Europe. Let’s make it a village in Germany, where my grandparents were born. In that little community, they would take their Jewish boys and find the most aggressive, self-motivated young boys and send them to school for a rabbinical education. Then they would bring these boys back to their community. They were now highly educated, self-motivated young boys. As the boys came of marriageable age, the community would arrange a marriage, possibly to the daughter of the wealthiest man in the community. Then this highly educated young man would say to his young growing family, “Kids, let me tell you, the money that you're going to end up inheriting from your grandfather isn't yours and it isn't mine. Let me tell you a story. If it weren't for Mordecai, Esther, Daniel, Shadrach, and Joseph, most administrations in every city our people have lived in would have killed us. We exist today because of the platform that previous generations have built for us. This wealth that we have is for us to manage and protect because it is designed to give us the ability to add value in and therefore influence every one of the cities and cultures where our people live. This is so our lineage can survive and thrive in future generations. So I want you to know, grandkids, you are not to spend this inheritance, wasting it on yourselves. Use it to build a business that builds a platform to add value to society. Your ancestor Mordecai, who saved our people from certain death, wasn't working a job somewhere in a field. He was a leader with influence where he could hear about the plot of King Artaxerxes to kill our entire people. Thus he was able to save his life and save Esther and thus keep our people from being killed. So we've got to continue stewarding our wealth by using it as a platform to create value and build influence in society. This wealth that we have and the wealth that we can create is designed to give us influence in every city. It isn't yours to be wasted on yourself.” With this ethic, the Jewish people became influential in many of the countries and cities where they lived. In Germany, for example, by 1923, 150 of the 161 privately-owned banks in Berlin were Jewish. About 75% of the attorneys, and nearly as many doctors were Jewish. Although only 1% of the German population, representing a negligible electoral power, by the early twentieth century the Jews’ economic, social, and political impact was considerable. By the 1930s, who in Germany owned and controlled most of the companies and industries? Who controlled the steel industry, the fur trade, the newspaper industry, etc.? It was the Jews. Now, in a normal society, this would simply be an example of how business and the wealth it generates can allow a minority population to exert significant influence on society. Unfortunately, as we all know, the Germany of the 1930s was taken down an abnormal path by an evil madman named Hitler. The evil forces of this world wanted to exterminate this group of people who were leading influencers in building a better world through doing commerce well. Hitler absurdly made the Jews’ influence in society into a scapegoat for society’s ills instead of honoring them for serving society and we all know the atrocities that followed. However, this story and the Jew’s resurgence of influence illustrates how much impact a healthy view of the value of wealth generated by a business can have on a society, even when exercised by a small and even unpopular part of the population. For contrast, let's go back to that same place in Germany, only let's go to a Catholic community instead of a Jewish one. Now the Catholic community takes their aggressive and self-motivated young boys and sends them off to the Jesuits and they come back as highly educated, self-motivated and aggressive young boys, many of whom become priests. These educated young boys begin influencing all of Central and South America and parts of the United States for Catholicism. These young priests are like pioneers. They gain vast amounts of wealth for the church and influence society quite a bit. Fifty-four cities in the United States are named after Catholic saints (Santa Fe, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are just a few of the more famous examples). Yet because these celibate priests didn't have families, the wealth they collected over their lifetimes was passed on to institutions. Institutions are not wealth creators. Individuals and families doing business are wealth creators. Wealth was never designed to be managed, protected, and built upon inside of an institution. Attempts to build wealth within an institution inevitably cause the influence of the institution to be viewed as paramount over the influence created by serving people well.      I have come to believe wealth was designed to be managed and built upon inside the family and used as a platform for people to serve society in increasingly effective ways across the generations. This is a new paradigm in recent years for me. It has caused me to cast a new vision for my family and even revise my estate and trust structures to accommodate this new paradigm, where the wealth I create in this generation is passed on to the next generation, not for them to spend on themselves, but as a platform in trust for them to use as a basis for adding more value to society and rebuilding the world. This is, in many ways, the Jewish model throughout the centuries. Although there have certainly been abuses and mistakes made in this model, it has resulted in an inordinate influence on societies. Today, the Jewish people are relatively few in number (there are less than 15 million Jews in the world). Yet in relation to their numbers, they have a huge business and financial influence. Though more persecuted than almost any group in the world, Jews control more wealth per person than any other group. Arguably, they have more influence per person on society than any other group in the world. There are undoubtedly multiple causes for this inordinate influence. However, one significant cause is clearly their deeply embedded belief that money is a medal of honor for doing business that blesses society.      Today, the Catholics are huge in number with more than 1.2 billion in the world. There are many highly successful and influential Catholic leaders around the globe. Some are my dearest and most respected friends. Yet in relation to their numbers overall, this people group doesn’t have nearly the economic strength or influence the Jewish people group has on society. In fact, many of the poorest countries in the world are primarily dominated by the Catholic Church. There are undoubtedly multiple causes for this. However, one significant cause is the historic religious belief that money and materialism are evil and that commerce is a necessary evil to make a living and create donations to the church. This also illustrates that churches existing on donations cannot exercise the same influence that businesses can. The Catholic Church primarily created wealth through donations, not by providing a product or service for a profit. On the other hand, the Jews primarily created wealth by providing a product or service for profit. Thus, their influence is both wide and deep, especially in proportion to their numbers. A company is in some ways like an extension of the family concept, where people work together to create value that has a positive influence on society. Those companies and families who understand how money and business can redeem culture are world changers and history makers. An Ancient Teaching on Influence Jesus was one of those history-making leaders who really got this. A couple thousand years ago when Jesus was teaching how God’s ideal society would develop in cities, he told a story that illustrates how business leaders who are able to turn one gold coin into ten gold coins are the ones who would end up having influence over ten cities. Society is built by business leaders who multiply their money and increase their net worth by providing a product or service or creating value so that it multiplies. This is what Jesus taught about how God's ideal society (what he called God's kingdom) is designed to grow. Yet it is interesting that the Catholic Church, which is supposed to be one of the primary vehicles for bringing God's kingdom to earth, ended up following a system that was not at all based on the system Jesus taught was to be used for building God's ideal society on this earth. Instead, the Catholic Church fostered what is, in reality, more like a socialistic system that takes from the producers to give to the non-producers. And for the most part, the institutional church around the world continues to perpetuate this basic paradigm of taking from the producers to give to non-producers more than it perpetuates the paradigm of people producing tangible value to build a better society. Don't get me wrong. I do believe there is great value in producers giving to help people who can't produce. I do believe there is great value in generously giving to the church or charity you believe can use those resources to do really good and important work that wouldn't otherwise get done in this world. For the last forty some years, my wife and I have regularly donated a pretty good percentage of our income to churches and charities like this. And I think many of our donations do make a positive impact on the world. I am simply making a statement about the systems that I believe will ultimately have the greatest impact on transforming our world. I would put transformational commerce at the top of the list. God's ideal society is not built best on a paradigm that takes from the one who produces and gives to the one who doesn't. I believe “the church” as Jesus envisioned it, as you will see in subsequent chapters, was actually designed to be people providing value to society through the marketplace.   One Last Lesson on Leadership Influence  This notion first started to dawn on me one day when I was reading the apostle Paul's last speech to the leaders he had been mentoring for years. Paul is known as the leader who did more to build the early church than perhaps any other person after Jesus. He developed leaders (none of whom were paid professional religious leaders) to oversee the church in various cities. He was about to make a long trip to Jerusalem, where he knew he would very likely be killed for going against the religious norms of that time. Just before he left, he gathered these church leaders, what we would call “pastors” today, and gave his farewell speech. With tears, Paul gave these pastors his final leadership advice for building the church. He didn't tell them to preach better sermons, build better buildings, start more programs to feed the poor or raise more money to fund the ministry. What he said was that he had not coveted silver or gold or clothing.[ii] In fact, he said he had always produced the money for these himself: “You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.”[iii] Paul had worked for his own money, and he had been able to help others with that money too. He suggested that they do the same: “In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”[iv] In his last speech to the pastors he is mentoring in the early church, Paul is essentially saying, “I want you to be like me. I want you to produce so much profit from the work you do in business that you have plenty of money to give to those in need.” Now that's a switch. He's not telling pastors that the secret to success is to get their congregations to give more. He was telling pastors to make more so they could give more to their congregations! I want you to make enough money so you can give! Make profit so you can give to those who have a need in your congregation! I don't know about you, but I have never heard a sermon on how pastors are supposed to do so well in business that they can give to people in the congregation. That, though, is the essence of Paul's last speech. Clearly, Paul did not see money or business as the root of all evil but instead as the basis for blessing society. When this dawned on me, it became clear that business and the church are supposed to have a more significant influence in building a good society than what most of us understand today. So I’m going to challenge you to really evaluate your underlying subconscious beliefs and paradigms about money.  Do you view it as an evil thing or something to avoid being around too much or to avoid having too much because it might somehow tarnish you?  Or do you view it as a medal of honor for the value you create for others? Do you view it as a sinful or sinister thing or as a certificate of service that simply lets you know how much good you are doing for others or for this world?  Embrace money as a measure of the value you give in serving humanity and humanity will be that much better of because of you. Much of the potency of business to permeate every aspect of society for good flows from the genius of the free enterprise system in promoting good human relations and creating value in society.   Resources: [i] 1 Timothy 6:10 [ii] Acts 20:33 [iii] Acts 20:34 [iv] Acts 20:35

Get Your ONE Thing Bonus Today >>> Today’s Big Idea Managing finances essentially comes down to just two things: The amount of money you are bringing in and the amount of money you are spending. What is The ONE Thing Workshop My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less. Three suggestions: Have a written budget and review it. Keep a spending journal. Write down everything that you spend. Calculate your net worth. Give: don’t let your money own you. Today’s episode is the final segment in a series examining how you can apply the focusing question to key areas of your life represented by 7 circles: Spiritual life, Physical health. Personal life, Key relationships, Job, Business and Finances. Series begins at episode 46. Visit the website to download the 7 circles worksheet. Excellent resource on the psychological and spiritual aspects of money: Thou Shalt Prosper: 10 Commandments for Making Money by Daniel Lapin For more information text your email address 503-376-6996 You can even email josh@concept1training.com. Please take a second to subscribe to the podcast and write a review. Get Your ONE Thing Bonus Today >>>