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

Secret #31

You Must Know Your Money, Which You Must Be Able to Measure and Count

Losing weight is difficult enough; imagine trying to do it without a scale. How would you keep track of how much you lost? How would you even be sure you had lost, and not gained, weight? You need a system for keeping track of all of this. Most personal trainers and nutritionists recommend that you weigh yourself at the same time every day and record the measurement so that you can track your progress and assess your methods. No cheating, either. You have to write down the truth, even if it horrifies you! Especially if it horrifies you! The truth will help motivate you.

And then you work hard to lose the weight every day. You cut back on high-fat and high-carb foods. You do cardio and lift weights. And if all goes well, you weigh a little bit less every day. Wonderful! But you would be lost without a way to keep track of your progress. Seeing that you have lost a pound is encouraging and so you keep at it. And a day later, you are down another pound. And by the end of the week, you have lost four pounds. And so on and so forth. The numbers are encouraging whereas the gradual improvements are imperceptible on a day-to-day basis. The numbers provide substantiated proof that you are making progress.

Creating wealth is much easier than losing weight, but both endeavors take considerable sustained effort. Saving money is another gradual process that requires the same kind of long-term commitment to see ...