Biblical Principles That Create Success Through Productivity


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According to author Rich Brott, it is human nature to want something for nothing; or at least to receive a maximum amount of return for a minimum amount of effort. The old adage notes that we should work smarter, not harder. There is no doubt that the industrial revolution changed society forever. But is there ever a legitimate excuse to not continue working hard? But the bottom line is this. For you to be successful with consistency, you will have to give up the ever present desire to live a life of leisure, fulfilling every personal whim and want, and choose to remain productive for a good part, if not all of your life. God honors hard work. He honors productivity. It is the author's belief that God's method for success is to bless the good productive work ethics of ordinary people.




Biblical Principles for Financial Success: Student Workbook


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This book is an ideal text for use in the classroom, small groups, church events and in junior high, high school and college settings. Author Rich Brott had designed the syllabus in a way that is user friendly, easy to teach, easy to learn. No prior knowledge is required from student or teacher. A summary of the content follows: Module 1 - God's Economy Lesson One: Money in God's Economy Lesson Two: The Cycle of Money Lesson Three: The Blessing of Giving Module 2 - Man's Stewardship Lesson Four: Principles of a Blessed Person Lesson Five: Persona of a Steward Lesson Six: Disciplines of a Steward Module 3 - Family Decisions Lesson Seven: How to Make Wise Family Decisions Lesson Eight: Facing Financial Challenges Lesson Nine: Defining Your Financial Future Module 4 - Spending Management Lesson Ten: Managing Your Cash Flow Lesson Eleven: Financial Benefits of Budgeting Lesson Twelve: Designing the Perfect Budget Lesson Thirteen: Developing the Savings Habit Lesson Fourteen: Borrowing and Credit Issues Module 5 - Making Lifestyle Changes Lesson Fifteen: Getting out of Debt Lesson Sixteen: Making Lifestyle Changes Lesson Seventeen: Areas of Financial Vulnerability Module 6 - Investing with a Vision Lesson Eighteen: Investing for your Future Lesson Nineteen: Planning for Retirement




Biblical Principles for Achieving Personal Success


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You were created with great potential. You have God-given giftings and talents. Sometimes potential is never realized. Realizing your full potential is an ever continuing process of growth. This involves a willingness to try new things, new ways, new ideas. Dreams worth pursuing do not have to be "big" or "unrealistic." The important thing is living a dream that is really yours. Those who are most fulfilled know what they want and go after it. You have great God-given capacity to succeed in life! Your life can be full and rewarding. People who never achieve their full potential live an empty life. If you think you can't, you won't. Search for something that can't be done and do it. This insightful book starts by asking you some thought-provoking questions. What is it that you are called to do? What is the vision you have for your life? What dreams do you have that are still ahead of you? What were you born to do? What is your purpose? How will you achieve that calling in your lifetime? Author Rich Brott helps you to understand the 8 Critical Insights You Must Discover in order to Achieve Personal Success in life. The content is thorough, the season is timely and you will be motivated and challenged to achieve your highest potential!




Biblical Principles for Financial Success: Teacher Workbook


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This book is an ideal text for use in the classroom, small groups, church events and in junior high, high school and college settings. Author Rich Brott had designed the syllabus in a way that is user friendly, easy to teach, easy to learn. No prior knowledge is required from student or teacher. A summary of the content follows: Module 1 - God's Economy Lesson One: Money in God's Economy Lesson Two: The Cycle of Money Lesson Three: The Blessing of Giving Module 2 - Man's Stewardship Lesson Four: Principles of a Blessed Person Lesson Five: Persona of a Steward Lesson Six: Disciplines of a Steward Module 3 - Family Decisions Lesson Seven: How to Make Wise Family Decisions Lesson Eight: Facing Financial Challenges Lesson Nine: Defining Your Financial Future Module 4 - Spending Management Lesson Ten: Managing Your Cash Flow Lesson Eleven: Financial Benefits of Budgeting Lesson Twelve: Designing the Perfect Budget Lesson Thirteen: Developing the Savings Habit Lesson Fourteen: Borrowing and Credit Issues Module 5 - Making Lifestyle Changes Lesson Fifteen: Getting out of Debt Lesson Sixteen: Making Lifestyle Changes Lesson Seventeen: Areas of Financial Vulnerability Module 6 - Investing with a Vision Lesson Eighteen: Investing for your Future Lesson Nineteen: Planning for Retirement Lesson Twenty: Preparing for the Unexpected




What's Best Next


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By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do. There are a lot of myths about productivity--what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information overload, it may feel harder than ever to understand the meaning of work or to have a sense of vocation or calling. So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity? Matt Perman has spent his career helping people learn how to do work in a gospel-centered and effective way. What's Best Next explains his approach to unlocking productivity and fulfillment in work by showing how faith relates to work, even in our everyday grind. What's Best Next is packed with biblical and theological insight and practical counsel that you can put into practice today, such as: How to create a mission statement for your life that's actually practicable. How to delegate to people in a way that really empowers them. How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you. How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day. How to have peace of mind without needing to have everything under control. How generosity is actually the key to unlocking productivity. This expanded edition includes: a new chapter on productivity in a fallen world a new appendix on being more productive with work that requires creative thinking. Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done--the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. You can learn how to do work that matters and how to do it well.




Biblical Principles for Staying Out of Debt


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In easy-to-understand narrative, author Rich Brott explains the great danger that all of us will make bad financial decisions. It's not that we deliberately set out to do so, we just follow cultural norms and wind up deep in debt. While many are able to recognize bad spending habits and somber patterns and actively take corrective measures, getting out of debt just brings you to the starting line. Next comes a tenacious determination to stay out of debt. After that follows a commitment to building long-term financial security and independence. The content of this book will help you to understand seven biblical principles for staying out of debt. It starts out with how to have right thinking and knowing exactly where your money is going. The book ends with teaching you how to set financial goals and how to invest for your future.




Achieving Financial Alignment: 30 Biblical Principles for Ordering Your Financial Life


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God is interested in our willingness to manage and administrate all that He has given to us. Nothing will be thrown into our laps. Financial prosperity is not an unconditional providential blessing; conditions are attached. We are to take action and be proactive. The abilities and giftings God provides motivate us to action. Sometimes it takes our persistence in doing the same things faithfully with the heart of a servant. Other times it is time to try new things, new methods, and seek new opportunities. Sometimes the steady plodding brings the success of the blessed life. Many people, deep in debt and lacking in self-discipline in their spending and contentment level, complain that their employers don't pay them enough, their taxes are much too high, their business costs have skyrocketed, or render some other excuse why they cannot plan for their financial future. Of course, some of these excuses may have a certain amount of legitimacy to them, but they don't excuse a person from the responsibility of making sure that they are not wasting any of the resources God has allowed to come through their hands. The problem is rarely a lack of money; it is a lack of money management. Money management simply means self-management. This book will help the reader to re-align their financial attitude so that can begin to fulfill their potential financial altitude.




10 Life-Changing Attitudes That Will Make You a Financial Success!


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A proper attitude and approach to your financial affairs is not only exemplary, but also necessary. In this book you will find 10 life-changing attitudes that will make you a financial success. They are the I Can attitudes. Not only are they life changing, but also very attainable. With the right guidance, you can become debt free. With the proper attitude, you can break bad spending habits. With enough self-discipline, you can pay cash instead of using credit. You can renew your thinking, change your flawed value system, and rise above your burden of debt. If you are financially accountable, you can enjoy life without spending massive amounts of money. Author Rich Brott wants to help you discover financial solutions and change your improper attitudes so that you can change your life!




Business, Occupations, Professions, & Vocations in the Bible


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Since the beginning of time, small business has played an important role in all societies and cultures. It has been a vital part of community as craftsmen, laborers, manufacturers, buyers and sellers exchange wares and talents. From ancient times to modern times, people have lived their lives centered around crafting something of value to use at home and to sell outside of their home. Economies have been perpetuated as they centered around commercial activities and commerce. From ancient Greece and Ethiopia, to ancient India, the ingenuity of humans beings and their ability to design, craft, manufacturer and harvest, have kept countries and kingdoms with food on the table. This has allowed cities, nations and kingdoms to prosper. Economic entrepreneurship has a history of success in every area of the world. It has sustained families, cities and nations as it has created employment opportunities and economic growth.




Maximizing Your Business Success


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Economic entrepreneurship has a history of success in every area of the world. It has sustained families, cities and nations as it has created employment opportunities and economic growth. Your success in business will be determined by your commitment to gain, learn, understand, and implement knowledge, experience, ability, opportunity, capital, commitment and do it all with great business passion. Success is a planned event and rarely happens without great personal effort. Maximizing your business success means that you are effective, productive and efficient. Never give up! In other words, trying and failing is a risk one must bear in order to be able to succeed. Success is in turning failure into an opportunity. Failure is not your enemy. Successful people see failure as a seed; the seed of success.