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

Secret #14

Each and Every One of Us Is in Business and Should Act Like a Business Professional

As we have said previously, you must begin to see yourself as in business now. Not later. No one need grant you this legitimacy. You do not need an employer or the stock exchange or the IRS or anyone else to grant you legitimacy. It is a frame of mind you may simply adopt. If you trade services or products for financial gain, you are in business. You are then a business professional. Regardless of what you do to serve humanity, you should strive always to be a business professional, not an amateur. What your particular business is doesn't matter, whether you are an executive or in retail. Whatever you do, just be a professional at it. If your innate talent is that of a rodeo clown, by all means go out and be the most professional rodeo clown that ever existed. But do not be an amateur rodeo clown.

So what is a professional? How do you become one?

First and foremost, a professional is someone who does the work that he must do when he must do it. Do your work and do it on time. Wise King Solomon said in Proverbs 22:29, “If you see a man who is quick to do his work, prompt to do his work, not when he feels like but when it needs to be done, you are looking at a man who's going to stand with kings.” Promptness to do your work, to do what you have to do, not what you want to do, is the mark of the true professional.

The professional always busies himself with business only. His true work. ...