When my company used to do marketing for nightclubs, I would always have the owners and marketing directors ask me: "Alex, what's this new social media platform and how can we use it?" This was back in 2005 when Digital Marketing was in its infancy. I would tell the nightclubs, "go online and search articles and you'll find a bunch of people talking about it." The problem is that all of the articles were written from a small business perspective, and not a nightclub perspective. It was difficult for them to grasp the concepts because the articles weren't relating to them. So I searched for an article on Social Media Marketing and REWROTE the entire article, but changing all of the examples and language to something nightclubs could understand. Once I did that, they were able to grasp the concepts. I continued to do this "rewriting" strategy for a few years. I had a blog called Nightlife Marketing Resource. Nightlife marketers from around the world appreciated that I was able to take confusing Digital Marketing concepts, and break them down for them in a way they could learn and implement into their marketing. Is Rewriting Ethical? Before I teach you my strategies for spinning, rewriting, and curating blog posts to better serve yourself and your readers, I want to draw the line between making good use of research and blatantly stealing someone else's content. I have a few criteria that I go by and expect from the writers of Daily Godpreneur that I'm going to share with you. Being that I run a branding agency that writes content for my clients, and I have a blog with thousands of readers, I understand a few basic rules of the game. First, plagiarism is never OK. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work, changing the author, and posting it as yours. However, being inspired by someone else's work is not plagiarism. We are not expected to produce content that is 100% original and written off the cuff. That's not how God designed things. The Bible says: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9) God took the first 7 days to create the entire world. He's the original creator. After that, everything has been an inspiration from that, passed down throughout the ages. Someone's story inspired the next person's experience. Traditions have been passed down and rewritten, spun, and analyzed to create new thoughts. This is how God designed "human progress" to work. When I see that my followers are struggling with depression in their business, I don't just close my eyes and start thinking of how I can help them. No, I open up the Bible to research what's already been said about this. I'll google others who have written about it. I'll watch YouTube videos. Sometimes, I'll find a great article that was not written to a Christian audience, and I'll use the outline to re-write it from a God-first perspective. I find the Biblical perspective on the topic and re-present the article so that a Christian entrepreneur would be inspired by it. Had I not done this, the article might not have impacted them the way it could, and should, when I find a Biblical truth to back a concept up. The Right Way to Rewrite Articles The wrong way to rewrite an article is to not change any of the examples or context for your audience, and try to pass it off as your own thoughts on a subject. You made no effort to reorganize the ideas through your own personal experience. Here are some good tips to guide your rewriting process: Identify a problem your niche is having (depressed entrepreneurs) Find an article that has all the information you need (an article on why depression happens) As you read the article, make note of details that aren't in your base problem and include them in the finished product. (what the Bible says about depression) Start with your own experience (I used to suffer depression in entrepreneurship) Reorder details to create a unique flow in the information (your personal example, what we all go through, what God has to say about it, and what we can do to change) Many people have written great articles on depression and overcoming it, but not until I wrote about it did someone write it from a Christian entrepreneur's perspective. (Browse Topic: Depression) Curating Existing Content If you don't want to "rewrite" an article, you can curate content you find on the internet for your niche. For example, you can find an article that you like and present it in an editorial way that gives the content your own unique voice. God could use you to make the content, His, through your own insights and perspectives. I call this method "giving credit to where credit is due." It's taking someone's article and simply prefacing it with what the Bible has to say about that topic. Can we ethically rewrite and curate content? The better question is: what is being written out there that God wants you to re-present to the world from His perspective? You can work directly with other people's content and, in good conscience and spirit, write your own version. Just make sure you make it your own unique voice in the subject. My process consists of: If nobody's going to bring God into the topic, I'm going to rewrite it. I'm researching the Bible to see what verses can back up a certain thought. I really do take the time to be certain it makes sense, Biblically. I write so that my content is relevant and unique to my readers. If I read a popular book or blog post, and God isn't given the credit, I'm going the curation route. Follow those steps, and you'll never have to worry about feeling like you aren't creative because God wants to show your ideas through others. P.S. You're more than welcome to take ANY article of mine on Daily Godpreneur and re-write it for your audience's perspective. Be my guest....it's all God's content anyway ;-) #ChristianBloggers

After taking the groceries to the car, my mom would always make me walk the grocery cart all the way back to the front of the store where they store all the rest. Even if there was a group of carts all bunched up in the parking lot, I'd still have to take mine to the front. In fact, she'd have me grab another one along the way! And while my mom thought she was teaching me to help out the store and the employees because she felt bad about someone having to run around and collect them all, she was really teaching me a lesson on integrity. Integrity is who you are when nobody is looking. It's doing the right thing all the time. We entrepreneurs are our own boss. It's an easy place to lose our integrity because we don't have "mom" sitting around teaching us right from wrong all the time. But Godpreneurs that are putting #GodFirst in our businesses have an advantage - we know God is with us all the time. People without integrity will NOT want a relationship with God because they'll feel the guilt, but people with integrity know that we need the conviction so we can reap all the benefits that integrity has to offer. The Bible says “You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world." (Matthew 5:8 MSG) It's clear as day: God blesses those who have integrity - a pure heart and mind. So what are the blessings an entrepreneur like you can expect when you live your life with a pure heart and authenticity? When your mind and heart are in the right place, you get benefits that are internal, external, and eternal. You get Entrepreneurial Personal Confidence I have people on social media who hit me up all the time for mentoring and coaching. I want to believe it's because God's blessed me because I'm walking in integrity to my calling of helping entrepreneurs become Godpreneurs. When you have integrity in your business life, you become the kind of person that employees, vendors, and clients like to be around because you know who you are and where you’re going. But when you don't have integrity, you run out of the ability to put out good energy because you're spending every bit of good energy trying to not fall. You Get to Leave a Legacy for Generations I'm grateful for blogging because I know my writings will be on the internet forever. There's a great feeling I get because my children's children will be able to read about the person I was becoming on my Godpreneurial journey. Your greatest legacy in business will be your integrity because it will last from generation to generation. If you manage to accumulate money, that will disappear when they fight over it when you're gone. Your business will end up in someone else's hands. All the diplomas on your wall will get thrown out. The Bible says "A righteous person lives on the basis of his integrity. Blessed are his children after he is gone." (Proverbs 20:7) The character you carry today in business is going to be translated into the lives of the people around you and then into the lives of the next generation tomorrow. Your integrity as a Godpreneur will leave a lasting legacy. You Get Rewards in Eternity My mom's not with me at the grocery store anymore to make sure I take the shopping cart back, but I know God is watching to make sure I honor what she would want. We tend to think that the rewards are in the big moments of life, where everybody is watching. But the bible says, “You are a good and loyal servant. Because you were loyal with small things, I will let you care for much greater things” (Matthew 25:21) In business, it’s in the small moments that you show real integrity. Going the extra step for a client even though they won't notice is rewarded eternally. Every small word of encouragement you give to an employee this week will be rewarded eternally. Every small act of kindness (like taking the grocery cart back once you're done) will be rewarded in eternity. Every time you reject a temptation to lie or cheat in your business, you will be rewarded in eternity. All of us Godpreneurs have the same proposition from God - you will be blessed when you have a pure heart. And that blessing has ramifications now and forever.

Reviewed by Daily Godpreneur Wall art can be a great way to inspire and motivate you. Whether it's something that you created or simply looking at an inspirational quote, having wall art in your home or office can make all the difference. An inspiration wall is a great way to create a work environment of your own! It is an incredible way to express yourself, and it's also a wonderful thing to see your favorite inspirational quotes on display. If you're looking for the best Christian wall art in 2021, these options will help you get started on finding beautiful inspiration that can be displayed in any room of your home or office! Everyone needs some great inspiration now and then, so why not have them hanging up where they can be seen? If you're looking for some inspiration or want something beautiful on your wall that reminds you of God's great work in your life. Here are inspirational pieces from Faith Hustle Co that will make you fall in love with Christian wall art all over again: The Inspiration Collection These canvases are meant to remind you of great works from God and His promises for us as Christians. You can trust that not only will it inspire you and bless everyone that reads the canvas, the art will also bring God's blessing into your home and business. The Scripture Collection Even though all Faith Hustle's canvas wall art is Bible-based, the Scripture collection is made to remind you of powerful Bible verses from day to day. Praise God and remember the Scripture as you're in your everyday life. The Godpreneur Collection These art wall pieces are thought for those entrepreneurs who are willing to put God-first in their businesses and lives, better known as GODPRENEURS. This canvas will remind you of God's calling upon your life as a business owner! The 24 Karat Series These pieces use gold and black colors to decorate your spaces while reminding you that God must be the first in all that we do. As Godpreneurs, we must remain in prayer and acknowledge that the Lord is always with us. Bundle Collection These are an excellent option for decorating an entire wall of your office or home with the same theme. Three canvases come in matching colors and messages. This collection reminds us, to have faith, pray, and let God do His way in our businesses and lives. Monochrome Collection This collection uses black and white, so you can match them in different spaces and create an elegant and harmonious place. These canvases are meant to give us hope through Bible verses and faith-based messages, such as what we need to grow in our spiritual lives. Women Collection This art wall collection is meant to remind Christian women of their hope, found in Christ. There are different Bible verses on the canvas to strengthen women through the Scripture and remind them of their calling as children of God. God's Kids Collection This collection is made for your children's room or their studying spaces, or even a classroom where many kids would be blessed by it. It is full of bright colors, cute drawings, and Christian messages focusing on how God sees us as their children and His creation. It's challenging to come up with the perfect inspirational wall art for your home or office space. Many people don't think about their wall art for inspiration, but it may be helpful when you're burdened, tired, or in doubt, seeing a canvas that will remind you of God's Word and His promises for your life. We hope that these examples inspire you to find a way to start decorating with Christian wall art today and build your inspiration wall art! #DifferentiatingMyself

I'm a CrossFit athlete. I'm pretty good at most exercises...except running. Guys run laps around me. If a workout has run in it, I've already concluded that I won't be finishing in the top spots that day. Plus, running is emotionally painful! My mind drifts to 1,000 places. I either become anxious from thinking about things I need to do that day or get depressed with regret from not training my endurance more. As more runners whisk on by me and fade away to where I can't see them anymore, it discourages me even more. However, I've changed my mindset on running. I've turned the corner on my negative thoughts. Instead of letting my mind sprint into loser-land, I've stopped listening to what my mind says about running, and I've started to focus on what my body has to do to run better. See, by focusing on my breathing, engaging my core, loosening my grip, running on my toes, lifting my knees, opening my chest, increasing my stride, and leaning into my run, I've been able to stay in my lane and finish workouts faster and with more confidence. I stopped listening to my mind and started focusing on my body - the temple of the holy spirit. I stopped letting the enemy have control of my run, and I've let the power of my spirit keep me company instead. Entrepreneurship in the Spirit - being fully present right now - comes down to our ability to get out of our minds and into our bodies. The enemy's power is just one of many reasons that it’s important entrepreneurs separate ourselves from our mind and pay closer attention to our body. Why? The mind is where the enemy dwells and is responsible for any pain and suffering we feel in the business. It produces pain by continually planning for the future or bringing up memories of the past, occupying moments of our day with anxiety-ridden future scenarios or regretful memories. The mind prevents us from Godpreneurship - entrepreneurship in the present presence of the holy spirit. The result is that since we can’t alter the past or the future of our business decisions, we constantly worry about things we can’t possibly change. And that leads to pain. The conclusion is to get out of our minds. We need to find a way to diminish the enemy's power in our minds and reduce some of its control. How to Leave the Mind to be Present with the Spirit By shifting our focus from the mind to the body - the temple where the holy spirit dwells - we can leave the mind and be present with our God-given holy spirit. The Bible writes a lot about the importance of focusing on the body rather than the mind. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” Paul elevates our bodies to the level of being temples, holy places, that house the Spirit of God. God gives His Spirit to every person who trusts in Christ for salvation (Ephesians 1:13–14). Mysteriously, we carry God's Spirit in our bodies. With that in mind, Paul now adds, they are not really our bodies, after all. He will write in the following verse that God purchased us. He paid for our redemption from sin with the blood of Jesus (Ephesians 1:7). Christ bought our way out of the curse of living under the law of Moses by becoming a curse Himself (Galatians 3:13). In that sense, we came to belong to God when we came to Him by faith in Jesus. That's why our bodies are not our own to do with as we please, but instead a temple to worship our Savior that freed us from the mental captivity of the enemy. The Holy Spirit knows what's best for you and your business. By listening to your body, you can get a very clear sense of present decision-making. Your body will tell you what is important. Have you ever had goosebumps? That's the spirit showing itself through your skin. When it comes to the mind, we have one job: to keep our mindset on the holy spirit's PRESENT guidance - the immediate task at hand. The power of entrepreneurship in the spirit comes from focusing on the body as a temple. This keeps the mind from slipping into the control of the enemy. #EnhanceFocus

Money is not evil. It is the love of money that is the root of all evil. In the days of my ignorance, I have been caught in the web of financial embarrassment when my wife and my children need a small amount of money to do something important, and I could not provide for them financially! How often we blamed the Devil for our ignorance and shifted the blame to others around us. This is not fair to God, not fair to those around you, and it is not fair to you as well. The beginning is half done, so they say. To get to that beginning, you must use what you have to get what you need. Think within the box. There is much food in the land of a lazy man, only that he cannot think to break the ground. The Bible says: 'A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things.' - Ecclesiastes 10:19(KJV) The full colon in the above Scripture tells you that both feast (for laughter) and the wine (that makes merry) result from money. These days, the youth are so determined to make it in all legitimate ways possible; they use the slang 'Double your hustle' to project their struggle to get money. When you finally get money in your hands, the first thing to do is not spending, but saving the money. Your ability to save money will determine your level of discipline, which in turn is a significant key to success. Prior to the famine in Egypt, Joseph saved the grains grown in the land, despite a great desire to consume all the grains in one year. The more you save, the more your financial base increases! Joseph gave them the formula in Egypt - It worked then, and it will work now! It is 50 - 20 - 20 - 10 where 50% of your income should go for recurrent expenditure, 20% of your income should go for miscellaneous 20% of your income should go for Savings 10% of your income should go for tithe/giving One more time, let it be known that the Bible never stands against money, but the love of money. #RaisingCapital #MakeMoreMoney

I know what I’m born to do. Want to hear it? I help people find their identity. I help, either directly or indirectly, people and businesses see what their purpose is in this world. Essentially, I was born to help other people see what they were born to do. Fun stuff, right?! And I have a clear plan of how to be rich and build wealth for my family: help as many people in the world as possible with the gifts and talents that were given to me. How rich do I want to be? $100K? $1M? That depends on a bigger question: how many people do I want to help? 100K? 10M? See, I’ve learned that if we focus on the task of helping as many people as possible, the riches will follow. But even though we can have the best intentions of helping others and grandiose ideas of solving world problems, the reality is that if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. Entrepreneurship is not easy. And Godpreneurship is 10X more difficult because you’re in the thick of the battle between good and evil. So what happens when the riches don’t follow right away? What happens when we are trying really hard to help others, but the bills pile up and it’s so hard to focus on the bigger picture of helping others? How do we stay focused on helping others amidst the twists and loops of the entrepreneur roller coaster? I have the answer: keep your eye on the prize. There’s a funny picture of Michael Phelps and a swimmer that my friend @luthegolden created after his 2016 Olympics. Michael Phelps has his eyes on the prize. The other swimmer has his eyes on a 6’4″ 194lb problem. In the book of Acts in the Bible, we follow Paul along the establishment of the early Christian Church. Here’s an entrepreneur that understood the principle of being rich, but a different kind of way. Paul was storing his wealth in a savings account that he would later redeem when he got to heaven. He endured many pains and hardships, but he did it all to invest in his eternity.  His prize was waiting for him later.  His riches came from investing his time in every person he invited into his home to preach the gospel: what he was born to do. Although Paul lived a tough life, it seems that he did it with a joy and satisfaction…a sense of purpose and dignity. He didn’t live lavishly, but he lived fully.  He didn’t live like royalty on earth, but he knew one day he would sit on the throne next to Jesus. That hope is what drove his every action and helped him live the entrepreneurs dream: knowing what he was born to do. His born to do dream is what fueled him through every battle and storm. This is why it’s important for you and me to find out what we were born to do and simply focus on it. We need to be the best at it. We need to bring together all of the resources we can to make it happen. When we find out what we were born to do, and then help as many people as we can, we will experience the joy that will bring the riches that God has prepared for us, either riches that will be enjoyed now or later. Godpreneur Rule #27: Godpreneurs know what they were born to do and only do that. #WorkLifeBalance #IncreaseEnergy

I’ve read a whole lot of books on wealth, attracting money, getting rich, thinking rich, etc. None of them made me rich. I’ll admit that I have more SKILLS now that can give me a leg up on being wealthy, but the author or its strategies and tactics don’t make me wealthy. Wealth is acquired through the gaining of wisdom.  That’s why you can be rich, but not wealthy.  We can all be rich at moments in our lives, but wealth is a state of mind, a state of being.  It’s only gained through experience and the ups and downs of life. True financial wealth comes from learning from our past financial circumstances and making adjustments to the plan to continue gaining in the future. Students are rich with knowledge right before they take a test.  But wealth is determined by what they’ve retained for long-term usage. Deuteronomy 8:18 says “But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.” Deuteronomy 8:19 NIV What I’ve learned from the bible has made me rich at times.  But what I’ve retained from the bible has made me wealthy in wisdom.  The wealth in wisdom, over the long run, translates to financial wealth as well because I make better decisions in light of everything God is teaching me. Godpreneur Rule #56:  Godpreneurs seek to be wealthy, not rich. #GainConfidence #MakeMoreMoney #SharpenLeadership

Selling has got a new approach. However, the best way to get people to buy your product or service is to stop selling it to them. Yeah, I mean, stop selling it. My position seems controversial, but that's the most rewarding approach to building a successful and profitable business. I am not campaigning against profit-making in business - I like profit, and I guess you do. I'm simply provoking thoughts to shift our traditional methodology, which has not profited us maximally. Business people can sell more by not selling. Our everyday target has always been to sell and our day seems not made until we sell; we just sell anything because we are interested in making money by any possible means. We often go this way: "Here's a very nice product that can do this or that, so buy it.” This could sometimes be offensive to the target customer. It's good to make money, though, but this traditional method is not sustainable in the long run. A superior approach would instead yield better results than currently enjoyed. We can sell more by not selling our products. Someone said, "The best way to sell something is not to sell it.” No sane person part with his money until he sees value in exchange. What people buy is value. They are not interested in the product of your package but the value of the content. You should provide value (I call it "customized value") in such a way to make people think that buying your product was their idea. So, merely telling people how good your product is, does not make sales. Rather than selling, focus on problem-solving. Jim Rohn said, "We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value, but we don't get paid for the time". Money flows in the direction of value. We get paid when we present value in exchange for people's needs. No business thrives on mediocrity, so building a successful business requires focusing on value to attract money. This takes time and effort, but ironically, we are not paid for those but the value. Jesus said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). This is our (God’s) Kingdom principle. Receiving money is a blessing, but not a higher blessing. You are blessed when giving value. It's not just God bless you; the people will also bless you, in addition to the blessing of money. Dear God's entrepreneur, I have just shown you the simpler, better, and unfailing method to succeed in business. If you intentionally put this to work, you would succeed in what you have chosen to do. Create value, Present value, Discuss value, Negotiate value, and Price value. That's the way to sell. Going forward, do not negotiate the price with your potential buyers; instead, negotiate value. Sell value and not the product. You can be assured that you cannot be out of business selling value. We can change the business landscape by changing our age-long approach to selling. Imagine how happy and satisfied people would be when they are served value instead of anything else. We can approach everything we do with the mindset of value. #MakeMoreMoney

I've been studying the Bible intensely since 2014. A big part of this craving I have for the Word is that there are so many golden nuggets I can pick up for my entrepreneurial journey. I seek to understand God more, see things from His perspective, gain wisdom, and be more like Christ, yet something keeps me from complete spiritual enlightenment. Many of us Godpreneurs want to find that inner peace Jesus promises and improve our business lives. We seek to know God and align our will with His as the ultimate goal of our entrepreneurial journey, yet something is off with the steps we're taking. Well, I discovered that the first step was easier than I could have imagined. While at a men's retreat, the speaker talked extensively about depression and anxiety. He explained that we feel depressed when we're ruminating about something from the past. He then explained that anxiety is when we're stressed or worried about something in the future. His conclusion, therefore, is that living fully in the present is the only escape from depressing and anxious thoughts in our minds. As business owners, we tend to live by correcting past mistakes or planning out future moves. We're constantly in our heads reminiscing of the good times or regretting the things we didn't do while bouncing to thoughts of the following plan, worried about the outcomes. Meanwhile, we neglect the one moment that is fully available to us business owners: the present...the right now. The Bible says “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." (Matthew 6:34 ESV) Jesus tells His followers not to worry about tomorrow. As He has already said, worry doesn't fix anything. Anxiety over things we cannot control or out of our reach makes no sense (Matthew 6:27). Jesus says, in short, that you ought to let tomorrow worry about itself. He's not saying you can't or shouldn't make wise plans for your business. He's also not saying you should ignore anything but the most immediate questions. His context here is about the emotions of fear and anxiety. Only the present is important because the battle to trust God never occurs in the past or future; it’s always happening in the current moment. When we're living in the Spirit and outside of our mental battle, our spirit allows us to feel something. Feelings (the Spirit) are only experienced in the present because your Spirit can only give you information about this specific moment. So what's controlling us when we're stuck in the past or the future? Well, that's the enemy keeping us from the Spirit. Jesus commands us Godpreneurs to focus on trust for God in a moment-by-moment way. We shouldn't try to solve all our problems, all time, all at once. Let God provide what is needed day by day. As this suggests, there are no advantages to worrying about the future of your business or dwelling in the past, but there are many to living “in the now.” If you manage to achieve that, you’ll experience no major problems along your entrepreneurial journey, just small ones that can be dealt with as they arise. Imagine if we all tried living in the present - dwelling with the Spirit. Let's stop allowing the enemy to take us to the past and fearing the future. If we did this, we would see how dramatically our business lives will improve. #WheretoStartFirst #TrustOnGod

As a branding agency, I sometimes find myself in tough situations with arrogant clients who cause the creative process to turn heated and personal. Some of the clients are big companies or huge authorities in their space, so it’s easy to get intimidated. I've also "gone to war" with my business partners, vendors, contractors, and occasionally an employee. At the moment, I felt justified in my actions, but I always end up the loser because I feel terrible for things I've said and done. In 2014 I committed myself to learn how to control my anger, God's way. My outlet becomes my blog, Daily Godpreneur. See, God has taught me over the years to respond to conflict by serving, not by throwing more heat on the fire or by putting on the boxing gloves. And my highest level of service has become this blog and the courses I teach. Many of my teachings result from conflicts that I needed to solve by studying God's Word. We Christian entrepreneurs have been given the ability to do things differently from our sinful selves. We want to get even; God wants us to give mercy. We want to get revenge. God wants us to forgive. But how can we do that if we aren't studying the way Jesus was able to handle conflict? The Bible says: But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. (James 1:22 NLT) In my Daily Godpreneur Method, I teach that business and personal growth come from reading the word, sharing it, and applying the teaching to our own business lives. First, you must always be able to see people through God's eyes and heart. You don't know if they are having marriage problems or financial issues, causing them to act in a way that seems irrational to you. Maybe the pressures of their business cause their thoughts to spin out of control. Maybe they don't have a relationship with God to outlet their own feelings. Enter you and your ability to control yourself, and turn around and blog (journal) about it. Let me share some blogs and courses I created because I conflicted, and blogging about it helped me through it and made me better because of it. 21 Breakthroughs in Business and Marriage Restoring Business Partnerships Gone Bad Overcoming Depression in Entrepreneurship Conquering Integrity in Business The 7 Calling Killers God wants us to respond to hurt people in our business life with compassion and genuine interest. Instead of becoming angry and seeking justification, God wants us to come to Him, lay the problem at the foot of the cross, and receive a divine download on how to handle the situation. Then, you can journal that revelation in the form of a blog. You don't have to share it with that person, but share it on social media so others can be blessed by it. If you do this, you will see the conflict disappear from your own heart (even though it might still be in their heart). If we invest a little time praying for their businesses, their marriages, and their relationship with God, the holy spirit will speak to you and give you the answer you need to journal (blog) about. With care, humility, prayer, and proper reflection, the intimidation we feel evaporates. Then, when our heart changes toward them, their heart may change toward us, and the conflict is almost always removed—immediately. It’s amazing. Walls come down! And in the end, we have a story to share with others on our blog on how we overcame a situation in our business through God's word. It's truly a miracle to experience. When your blogging is done with care, compassion, humility, and prayer, problems disappear. Reflection How have you responded in business situations to someone who demeans, ignores, or intimidates you? If you chose to engage and escalate the conflict, what were the impacts on that person, your business relationship with them, your heart, and/or your bottom line (profit)? What could you have done differently to serve your "enemy" to win them and influence them for Christ's glory? To read more articles about sales, click here. #MakingMoreSales

What would happen if you set the alarm on your phone every morning before your business day starts, and you take a few moments and say “God, make me bold in my business today. May I have the faith to believe that no matter my financial circumstances or people issues, you will show up and do what only you can do? Make me bold in business. Give me unshakable spiritual convictions in decision making; that have the courage and the faith to obey you no matter what the personal cost. God, even though it might be painful, make me bold in business”. I'm encouraging you today to step out and be bold enough to follow the leadership of God in your business. It never ceases to amaze me what God enables an entrepreneur to do if they will just step out. Here's a question: How amazed are people by your boldness in business? When your employees or clients look at you, would they say: “Oh, undoubtedly, beyond a shadow of a doubt, you are a disciple and follower of Jesus." Or would they say, "You're Christian? Really?” There are innumerable ways the Holy Spirit prompts you to be bold in your business. VENDOR CONVERSATION: You may just be in a conversation with a vendor, and suddenly you feel the urge to ask him or her: “Do you mind if I pray for you?” Mind you, you are NEVER comfortable with praying out loud, but next thing you know, you’re calling heaven down and believing by faith that the power of God will touch this hurting person right in front of you. EMPLOYEE MEETING: You might be in an employee meeting, and someone says something inappropriate, and you very lovingly and appropriately say, “Let's not do that. We can be better than that." CLIENT CATCH-UP: You might be bold when a client starts gossiping against a competitor, trash-talking, and you don't participate or even be as bold as to say, “come on, let’s be better people than that." ANOTHER GODPRENEUR: You might see an entrepreneur friend on social media (not necessarily Christian) that is just hurting, and you write them and say, “Hey, I am going to bring you to church this week. I´m not just inviting. I’m bringing." There are so many different ways that God might manifest himself along your entrepreneurial journey through the power of the Holy Spirit. However, it takes 4 key elements that I believe if we entrepreneurs all put into practice, we could slay fear, be bold in business, and be the leader God wants us to be in our respective marketplaces. IT TAKES BOLD FAITH It takes bold faith to be a Jesus person these days in the marketplace, but I want to encourage you to be known in your circle of influence - with your clients and in your industry - that you’re with Jesus. They need to know entrepreneurs like you who love Jesus and put God first in their business. Bold faith in business is a faith that says on a daily basis, "I want to do my best to make choices in my company that honor Jesus of Nazareth. I´m for him, and I would encourage you to be for him. He's made my business better. Jesus doesn’t diminish my brand. He expands my quality of life as an entrepreneur. He expands the contentment I feel in life when I do business." IT TAKES BOLD COURAGE God wants us to be wildly successful business owners. He wants us Godpreneurs to be courageous and bold in whatever we face in business. He has made promises to make it possible for us to face anything and everything and still be standing when the battle is over! Some of you are at a certain point in your business where you're facing something new. Maybe something in your company has come to a close, and now you’re facing something new - a new industry to go after, a new niche to pursue, a pivot in a new direction. Fear always comes against us entrepreneurs when we face new things. You’re not the only one. Every time you try to make any kind of progress, you can be assured that satan will try to frighten you. That’s the way the enemy keeps people from going forward into the unknown where God is calling us to. Bold courage along your entrepreneurial journey often triggers spiritual opposition. There is spiritual opposition, and the bottom line is this: if you are not ready to face opposition for your obedience to what God is calling you to do in business, you’re not ready to be used by God. Entrepreneurial courage is not the absence of fear. Fear is a God-given emotion. Courage is actually forward motion in the presence of fear. You're a courageous business owner when you´re not afraid to step into the unknown. By the way, you’re not a coward because you feel fear. However, we´re cowardly when we let fear control us rather than continuing to follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit. God will lead us through fear and into his perfect will for our entrepreneurial life. If you ever really want to run a God-first business led by the Holy Spirit, you have to understand that God never calls people that are "qualified" or who feel "ready" to do what they’re being asked to do; that’s why it takes faith to do it. Faith in entrepreneurship means that you step out based on what’s in your heart, not based on what’s in your circumstances. In difficult times in business or uncertain times in the marketplace, we don’t look around us. Instead, we look up! Up is where we get courage and strength. Looking up means we’re willing to trust God, be fearless, and be bold no matter what God requires of us. IT TAKES BOLD OBEDIENCE Instead of being afraid of new things, Kingdom-minded business owners should be excited about new things. Honestly, if you would just have the courage to follow God's calling for your business life, you would have an outrageously extraordinary entrepreneurial career! Your employees might not like where God is calling you to take your business. Your partners might disapprove of the new direction. You might not get a lot of encouragement from clients and handclaps on social media when you begin down the road God wants you on. Ignore the peanut gallery and stay boldly excited about the vision - God will prove himself to you! Myself included, I regularly come to places in my business that I haven't been, I haven't done that, I have no experience with that, and so I have a tendency to want to start backing off from it and just stay in my little boat of safety. But I've learned that boldness often releases God's miracles in our businesses. In other words, when you run your entrepreneurial race with bold faith, you´ll often see the hand of God move miraculously in and around your ventures. You won’t be surprised by the miracles of God when you’re operating in obedience to God. Bold entrepreneurial obedience often triggers the faithfulness and miraculous power of God in our businesses. He wants us to be bold, courageous, strong, and not afraid to try offering new services and products, pivot into new industries, and launch into new marketplaces. I think many of the reasons why some business owners don't step out and try new things is they already think before they even try about all the things that might happen if they fail. I think that if you understand how much God loves you and is for your success, then you can operate without that fear of failure. That’ll immediately set you free to try things, take more risks, and stand up for more things you're passionate about. If you do the best you can when you step out into a new direction in your business, then God will promote you over time. Often we look at the way we think it needs to be in its perfection, and if we can't do that yet, then we won’t even step out and do anything. I can tell you when I first gave my entrepreneurial walk to the Lord, it was pitiful, but I was following God's calling for me. IT TAKES BOLD FOLLOWING It's not that you need to be bolder, have more faith, or stop being critical or hard on yourself. Boldness in business comes from a passion for Jesus that, when following Him, everything is influenced in a positive direction. In Joshua:1, we see that when God sent Joshua to take Moses’s place in guiding the Israelites across the wilderness into the Promised Land, he said, “There’s only one thing that you have to do, fear not and be bold.” God can’t work through fearful entrepreneurs; he works through faith-filled Godpreneurs. Fear in business opens the front door to the enemy and lets him right into the office. On the other hand, faith opens the flood gates for God to work in and through our business ventures. Fear comes out of your flesh - out of your financial, strategic, or personal circumstances - out of what you think and feel. However, faith comes out of your heart. God wants us Godpreneurs to follow our hearts. You have to keep your heart safe and free, and if you’re not following the leadership of God for you, then your heart is not going to be free. It’s going to be burdened. I think even if you step out to launch something you believe is God's calling, and you don’t make it all the way, God likes that spirit of aggression and that boldness that says, "I’m going to step out and launch it. I´m not going to live in fear." A BOLD CONCLUSION We have the choice to face the difficulties we face in business in one of two ways. We can do it courageously or, we can do it fearfully God doesn't want his marketplace mavericks living fearfully. He says, “I have not given you the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7) God is ready to give you and your business the best. The question is: are you ready to trust him for it? If you have the bold faith to stop letting other people make your decisions, the bold courage to step into the unknown, the bold obedience to launch into God's calling for you, and the boldness to publicly follow Jesus, you'll find God's destiny for your business and personal life. You’ll discover what’s going to fulfill you and what you’re meant to do and be, but you´ve got to be bold. You have to be bold enough in business to step out and find out. #BoldInBusiness #LaunchingMyBusiness #GainConfidence #SharpenLeadership

I love promises. There’s something comforting when someone promises something, or when a product or service promises to deliver on what it says it can do. Promises give me peace of mind. They relieve me of worry and stress. If my employee promises to deliver something by a certain date, I’m able to trust and move on to other things. We need promises around us, especially in a world that doesn’t want you to succeed, move up, and make a name for yourself. With so much greed, envy, and pride, it’s no wonder we get stuck in a certain comfort zone. People will tell us we can’t, we’re not worthy or we’re a failure. Past experiences will make us feel doubt and anxiety, holding us back from experiencing more out of our entrepreneurial callings. When we find ourselves stuck in a certain place that isn’t letting us pursue our bigger plans or ideas, we need promises. When we find ourselves out of ideas, desperate to know what the next move is, it’s promised that will pull us out. We need promises around us so that we can keep moving forward, keep creating, and push through to purposed-focused living. God makes many promises to us Godpreneurs. In fact, scholars have found 5,467 promises in the bible. Wow, that’s a lot of promise! The bible says: "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world". (1 John 4:4 NIV) If you’re going to pursue your passion for business, you have to surround yourself with promises like this from God. You have to have authority over you and always believe in you and will show you grace and Light the path in front of you towards your calling. We Godpreneurs especially need to know the promises of God. The business world is tough. Things change every day, people let us down, clients are messy people, and buyers lie. We need promises to lay our foundation so that we can keep loving, keep creating, and keep loving forward in our callings. God promised this in the bible: "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope". (Jeremiah 29:11) Once we know that we were born for something, that we have a creator that created us for something, we will go from having no focus or meaning to starting and running a purpose-focused business that will give us a sense of satisfaction no money can buy or education can give us. My prayer for you today is God, please give the reader of this message hope in your promises and rest, peace, and victory over whatever is holding them back from all of what God created them to do! #GodpreneurAcademy #BusinessBibleStudy #FindMyCalling Stepping into What You Were Born to Do A FREE 3-Day Business Bible Study to help you succeed in the marketplace by listening to God’s calling, trusting in Him, and having faith. Heard of the Godpreneur Academy? Grow Your Business, God’s Way! Bible-Based Video Courses for Entrepreneurs Putting God First In their Businesses Click here to create a Free Account

When new entrepreneurs come to launch their businesses with me, they are frightened, nervous, and overwhelmed with the amount of work and resources it takes actually to pull it off. Of course, there’s excitement in the air too! They come because they have a dream and they’re finally pressing play on a vision of a better future. I’ve found the biggest difference between the dreamers and the doers come down to one word – faith. The people that don’t pursue internal passions are those that lacked the little faith needed to put them over the edge to walk into the unknown world of the new business opportunity they could take. All of us humans weigh our decisions between risk and reward. We factor in the costs versus the benefits, and we guide our lives accordingly. Some of us are riskier than others. Again, I believe it’s a matter of the amount of faith we bring to the starting line. If God had designed this world for us to be able to make it on our own, there wouldn’t be failure or defeat. But because God’s sole desire is a relationship with us, he inserted an X factor into every business decision so that we would develop our faith in Him. Jesus says in the Bible: He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:20 NIV) Faith isn’t about you developing magic tricks. It’s not a wand you wave for secret doors to open. Faith is acknowledging that whatever business venture you’re about to head into, God is at your side, and with Him, you will not be shaken (Psalm 16:8) Faith is all you need to take you from talking about the idea, to actually making it happen. It’s the fuel you need to not only start the venture but to sustain it for the rest of your life. How much faith? Like Jesus pointed out, a small seed planted next to a driveway will eventually grow into a big tree that can literally Crack cement driveways, sidewalks and move entire foundations of homes. A small little seed caused the earth to move out of its way! With just a small amount of faith, we can take ONE step into our destiny. If we do this, I believe God will bless that kind of obedience and continue to guide you from faithful decision to faithful decision. Entrepreneurship might as well be called “Faith Walking.” We can’t afford to be faithless when it comes to pursuing our calling. We must always cling tightly to Jesus because He will use the little faith you have to do great and amazing things through your business. My prayer for you today is Father, I ask you to give the reader of this blog the confidence to be bold in their faith that is rightly placed in Jesus to pursue what they were born to do. #BusinessBibleStudy #GainConfidence #GodpreneurAcademy Stepping into What You Were Born to Do A FREE 3-Day Business Bible Study to help you succeed in the marketplace by listening to God’s calling, trusting in Him, and having faith. Heard of the Godpreneur Academy? Grow Your Business, God’s Way! Bible-Based Video Courses for Entrepreneurs Putting God First In their Businesses Click here to create a Free Account

I have a confession. I’ve had this thing I know I’ve needed to do for a long time, but I struggled to step out of my comfort zone to go and pursue it. I know how to do what I’m currently doing, and I’m amazing at it. But that other thing God is telling me to do… Well, I’m not experienced in. The weird part is that I know it’s what God has called me to. I know it’s in the stars for me to do it, but I’m not doing it. So I keep on doing what I know I’m really good at, and I stay inside my office walls, protected from uncertainty. We all have something God has called us to, but we’re either too comfortable or too afraid to step outside our defense walls. We know God has called us for more. We know God has promised us so much, but we cower away, unwilling to show the smallest faith of taking one step towards His calling for us. We’re not alone. This has been happening throughout the bible. Abraham always wanted a child, but as time went by, his faith in that hope dwindled, and I could imagine by the age of 80 he had lost that dream. But in what is arguably the biggest promise God set in the Bible, Genesis 15 says: Then he took him outside and said, “Look at the sky. Count the stars. Can you do it? Count your descendants! You’re going to have a big family, Abram!” (Genesis 15:5 MSG) If you take a close look, you’ll see that Abraham had to step outside of his tent to see the promise. The tent represents your comfort zone. That’s the place where you feel safe and secure. It’s where you rest and find shelter. It’s your office, your cubicle, your corner, your desk. God is asking you to step outside of that place of comfort because He wants to show you all the promises he has laid out for you, your family, and your future business! It’s going to be dark when you leave, but that’s so that you can rely on God and see the promises more clearly. Stars don’t shine in the day, they shine brightly at night. We Godpreneurs are living in our worldly bodies, and if we only operate from that place, we will always believe the lies of thinking this is all there is, and this is how life is going to end up being like forever. But if we see our next move as a spiritual move – a move to draw closer to God while at the same time step into what we were truly born to do – then God will show you everything He has lined up for you in the rest of your time here. Like the stars in the sky, the opportunities that God has for us to start businesses, rise to the next level and make an impact are innumerable. There’s a specific business calling for every one of us, and for generations to come too! God’s calling us into a fuller relationship with Him, and He’ll use an entrepreneurial venture to accomplish that. The Bible says “Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I’m back home in the house of God for the rest of my life. (Psalms 23:6 MSG) Whatever is holding you back right now, whatever is frightening you from stepping outside of your tent, God wants to show you how to overcome that. But to begin that journey, you need to step out in faith, look up, and believe the promise. My prayer for you on this journey: Father, I pray that God would give the reader of this blog the courage to hear you clearly by stepping out of their comfortable tents and into the calling you created them for – into their Born To Do Identity! #BusinessBibleStudy #FindMyCalling Stepping into What You Were Born to Do A FREE 3-Day Business Bible Study to help you succeed in the marketplace by listening to God’s calling, trusting in Him, and having faith. Heard of the Godpreneur Academy? Grow Your Business, God’s Way! Bible-Based Video Courses for Entrepreneurs Putting God First In their Businesses Click here to create a Free Account

When I started my first business in 2005, I was excited to get my Entrepreneurial career off the ground finally. My spirits were high, ambition at full throttle, and dreams of grandeur in my mind. Then, business life happens. Problems arise. Things don't go as planned. Partnerships dissolve. Clients turn into enemies. Employees jump ship. Credit cards go unpaid. The IRS comes knocking for past due bills. And thus began my accumulation of regrets mixed with the discontentment of not being where I had expected to be...ten years later. And even when I started drawing closer to God as a source of hope in my business life, I still couldn't shake off the depression from lack of achievements and the stress of not knowing what formula would fix everything. I knew that living a life of purpose and operating from my calling were keys to successfully doing business God's way, but I still stayed up at night staring at the ceiling, wondering, "God, when will it be my time to be happy." I was stuck in a seemingly never-ending cycle of entrepreneurial discontentment. Sadly, many of us Christian entrepreneurs spend our time either trapped in the regret-filled past or anxious about a future we cannot hope to control. Yet, at the same time, we also cling to the hope that we can somehow improve our businesses, become purpose-focused and operate from our calling, even though we have no clear idea of how to do so. Enter the power of Entrepreneurship in the Spirit; it is a mindset for navigating the complex terrain of our inner lives and our relationships to the past, present, and future. The heart of doing business in the Spirit emphasizes operating in the present moment to avoid most of the pain we usually experience in entrepreneurship. To this end, the methodology focuses on the connection between the mind and suffering, shedding light on the numerous destructive ways our sinful nature uses our minds – for example, to trap us in cycles of suffering and stop us from the present joy God desires us to experience. The Bible says So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. (Romans 8:6 NLT) The Power of Entrepreneurship in the Spirit helps us improve our business lives, including our relationships with partners, employees, and clients, and, crucially, increase our sense of self-esteem and fully engage with our Godpreneurial journey. If we could all operate from the spirit for more hours of the day than not, we would see a significant shift in marketplaces globally. Heaven would become, more than ever, a place on earth. #TrustOnGod #DifferentiatingMyself