In the newly revised second edition of Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance, renowned keynote speaker, consultant, and advisor Rabbi Daniel Lapin delivers an inspiring and practical guide to achieving your financial goals by deploying timeless truths from the Bible. In the book, you'll explore the secrets of creating revenue using timeless spiritual strategies, as well as concrete guidance on developing your self-discipline, integrity, and moral strength.
The author explains how to develop the right financial and spiritual mindsets, showing you effective, Bible-based strategies to improve your life and increase your bottom-line. You'll also find: - Brand-new updates and revisions to the widely read original, demonstrating how a focus on service and the wellbeing of others will be reflected in your own prosperity - Hands-on strategies for self-transformation in the face of fear and uncertainty - How to seed and nurture new relationships that become part of the tapestry of your exciting financial reality
A must-read resource for anyone interested in simultaneously getting closer to God and doing good by doing well. Escalating the financial destiny of readers around the world, Business Secrets from the Bible is the biblical, spiritual, and practical roadmap to prosperity that you have been waiting for.
Table of Contents
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 7
Secret #3: Humans Alone Possess the Ability to Transform Themselves 11
Secret #4: The Universe Was Created for Connection 20
Secret #5: Making Money Is a Spiritual Activity 31
Secret #6: Everything Important and Joyful You Have Achieved Has Been in Partnership with at Least One Other Person 38
Secret #7: Focus on Other People’s Needs and Desires and You Will Never, Ever Be Short of What You Yourself Desire and Need 46
Secret #8: Become a People Person 56
Secret #9: We Love the People Whom We Help More Than We Love Those Who Help Us 68
Secret #10: Life Isn’t About What You Know - It’s About Who You Are 75
Secret #11: In Order to Achieve Success, We Must and Can Build Up Our Self-Discipline, Integrity, and Strength of Character 84
Secret #12: Your Authentic Identity Requires Other People 95
Secret #13: Know How Business Works; Understand Specialization and Cooperation 100
Secret #14: Every One of Us Is a Business Professional 111
Secret #15: Develop Four Dimensions of Your Life Simultaneously 115
Secret #16: Serve Authentically 125
Secret #17: Enhance Your Potential by Imposing Boundaries and Structure 133
Secret #18: You Cannot Lead If You Cannot Follow 141
Secret #19: Vision Is Necessary; Sharing That Vision Is Not Always Necessary 145
Secret #20: The Most Important Organ of Leadership Is Your Mouth 153
Secret #21: Recognizing What You Can’t Do 159
Secret #22: As Painful as Change Can Be, It Often Contains the Seeds of Growth 163
Secret #23: Because Change Is a Constant Reality, Life Is More Accurately Depicted by a Video Than a Photograph 169
Secret #24: The More That Things Change, the More We Must Depend Upon Those Things That Never Change 176
Secret #25: Press Forward Even When the Road Ahead Is Not Clear 185
Secret #26: Do Not Let Fear Conquer You - Press On 194
Secret #27: Become Strongly, Even Radically, Open to New Directions, Soft Sounds, and Faint Footsteps 201
Secret #28: Use the Power of Words, Sentences, and Sound 207
Secret #29: Feeling Right About Money Makes You Act Right 215
Secret #30: You Can Best Attract What You Best Understand 224
Secret #31: You Must Know Your Money, Which You Must Be Able to Measure and Count 229
Secret #32: Money Is Spiritual 233
Secret #33: How You Feel About Yourself Is How Others Will See You 241
Secret #34: The Surprising Benefits of Charity 247
Secret #35: Giving Money Away Connects Us with Other People 251
Secret #36: Ideas Hit Reality 259
Secret #37: If There Is No Hebrew Word for Something, Then That Thing Does Not Exist 269
Secret #38: Retirement Is Unhealthy 275
Secret #39: How You Think About Tomorrow Affects How You Behave Today 279
Secret #40: The Three Most Important Words: Relationships, Relationships, Relationships 285
Final Thoughts 297
About the Authors 299
Did You Enjoy this Book? 301
Index 309
