Business Secrets from the Bible

So if you want to improve your speaking, here is what you have to do: Listen more and listen better. The best way to do this is to listen to yourself speak. Get to know how you speak and how you should speak

whatever you do for a living, you will perform better and make more money if you learn to use your mouth more effectively than you do now.

Not everyone must know about all parts of you—just the parts they need to know.

You don’t have to share everything with everybody

But we forget to impart the one quality that employers most want to see in job applicants: a will-do spirit

In the same manner, true power is achieved by confining our own selves. When we focus our energies in one direction rather than many, we can accomplish great things. Freedom is obtained from direction, not from the potential to move in any which way. Without a goal and narrowed focus, without placing limits on our potential, our energies are wasted, dissipated, and ineffective. In our work, we must make our goals explicit. If we have a destination then we will, like the bullet that is restricted to one option, know where to go.

But to be able to earn money, we must set limits on ourselves and our freedom. Earning money requires focus and a plan.

Did you not get everything done that you set out do because it was too much, or did you simply fail to fully commit yourself to working all day long? Take an inventory of what you did that day. If you failed to get through all of your sales calls, and yet found time to watch a funny animal video on YouTube, send e-mails to friends, and play a game of chess on your phone, then the problem is not that you didn’t have the time to finish your work—it’s that you simply failed to do your work.

overly optimistic and they need to set more reasonable goals. The other, which is far more common, is that people fail to focus on what actually needs doing

two common reasons people do not reach their goals