Business Secrets from the Bible Workbook

RABBI DANIEL LAPIN AND SUSAN LAPIN are media personalities, speakers, and authors with a passion for teaching ancient Jewish life principles extracted from the Bible, making them accessible to folks of every background. International audiences regard the Lapins’ work as entertaining, enlightening, and life-changing.

Introduction 1

Secret # 1 God Wants Each of Us to Be Obsessively Preoccupied with the Needs and Desires of His Other Children 5

Secret # 2 An Infinite God Created Us in His Image with Infinite Imagination, Potential, Creative Power, and Desires 15

Secret # 3 Humans Alone Possess the Ability to Transform Themselves 25

Secret #4 The Universe Was Created for Connection 33

Secret #5 Making Money Is a Spiritual Activity 43

Secret # 6 Everything Important and Joyful You Have Achieved Has Been in Partnership with at Least One Other Person 51

 Secret # 7 Focus on Other People’s Needs and Desires, and You Will Never, Ever Be Short of What You Yourself Desire and Need 59

Secret #8 Become a People Person 69

Secret # 9 We Love the People Whom We Help More Than We Love Those Who Help Us 79

Secret # 10 Life Isn’t About What You Know— It’s About Who You Are 87

Secret # 11 In Order to Achieve Success, We Must and Can Build Up Our Self- discipline, Integrity, and Strength of Character 99

Secret #12 Your Authentic Identity Requires Other People 109

Secret # 13 Know How Business Works; Understand Specialization and Cooperation 117

Secret #14 Every One of Us Is a Business Professional 125

Secret # 15 Develop Four Dimensions of Your Life Simultaneously 133

Secret #16 Serve Authentically 143

Secret # 17 Enhance Your Potential by Imposing Boundaries and Structure 151

Secret #18 You Cannot Lead If You Cannot Follow 159

Secret # 19 Vision Is Necessary; Sharing That Vision Is Not Always Necessary 167

Secret # 20 The Most Important Organ of Leadership Is Your Mouth 175

Secret #21 Recognizing What You Can’t Do 185

Secret # 22 As Painful as Change Can Be, It Often Contains the Seeds of Growth 193

Secret # 23 Because Change Is a Constant Reality, Life Is More Accurately Depicted by a Video Than a Photograph 201

 

Secret # 24 The More That Things Change, the More We Must Depend Upon Those Things That Never Change 211

Secret # 25 Press Forward Even When the Road Ahead Is Not Clear 219

Secret #26 Do Not Let Fear Conquer You— Press On 229

Secret # 27 Become Strongly, Even Radically, Open to New Directions, Soft Sounds, and Faint Footsteps 241

Secret #28 Use the Power of Words, Sentences, and Sound 251

Secret #29 Feeling Right About Money Makes You Act Right 261

Secret #30 You Can Best Attract What You Best Understand 269

Secret # 31 You Must Know Your Money, Which You Must Be Able to Measure and Count 277

Secret #32 Money Is Spiritual 287

Secret # 33 How You Feel About Yourself Is How Others Will See You 297

Secret #34 The Surprising Benefits of Charity 307

Secret # 35 Giving Money Away Automatically Connects Us with Other People 315

Secret #36 Ideas Hit Reality 323

Secret # 37 If There Is No Hebrew Word for Something, Then That Thing Does Not Exist 331

Secret #38 Retirement Is Unhealthy 341

Secret # 39 How You Think About Tomorrow Affects How You Behave Today 353

Secret # 40 The Three Most Important Words: Relationships, Relationships, Relationships 361

Acknowledgments 371

About the Authors 373

Index 375