Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance

Secret #3

Humans Alone Possess the Ability to Transform Themselves

The reality of animals is that they are what they are, and will always be so. A cat, a cow, a camel, or a kangaroo will always be a cat, a cow, a camel, or a kangaroo. But a homeless person can transform himself into a published author and successful motivational speaker. This is just what Richard LeMieux did. As he describes in his personal odyssey, Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey, he went from sleeping in his car and eating at the Salvation Army (Sally's) to an eventual middle-class lifestyle. An aimless teenager can get a grip on her life and become an accomplished academic, professional, or businesswoman. An immigrant can arrive in a new land with nothing but the clothes on his back and ultimately achieve greatness without ever having to feel imprisoned by the promise of permanent poverty.

In his book The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires, courageous author and motivational speaker Dennis Kimbro insists that wealth has little to do with birth, luck, or circumstance, but everything to do with choice, commitment to change, discipline, self-improvement, and hard work. I could not agree more. His sentiment echoes this Jewish theme: There is no shame attached to starting out poor, but remaining that way is a different story.

I have known Jewish men who didn't have a fraction of what most others have going, and yet these men have prospered beyond anyone's wildest dreams. ...