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

Secret #22

As Painful as Change Can Be, It Often Contains the Seeds of Growth

You may think, given everything I have told you thus far about how scary and stressful change can be, that you should avoid change. Avoiding change leads to stagnation. If you don't embrace change, you cannot grow and you won't ever be successful. There are many circumstances of sudden change that people seeking to increase their wealth should rush to embrace. Most people assume they will be more economically prosperous in the future than they are now. This is often true—people do tend to earn more money as they get older. But such growth is not automatic. It is going to involve effort and it is going to involve, pretty much by definition, some degree of change.

You cannot stand in place. Resisting change does not prevent change; such passivity simply prevents you from taking the reins. Change is inevitable. No matter what you do, you are going to get older. One day you are going to die. And between now and then, many things are going to happen to you and around you. Change is coming. It is constant. It will involve stress, and stress involves pain. You must learn to deal with change so that you may embrace it in order to seize upon the opportunity that it provides. Realize that change means the possibility of improvement.

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