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3 Reason Non-Christians Succeed More than Christians (sometimes)
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3 Reasons Why Christians DON’T Get Rich
Posted in abundance, abundance mentality, Bible and money, business, business man, christian business, Christian entrepreneur, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, financial stewardship, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, how money works, make money, money, money works for you, personal finances,
3 Reasons Christians Should Get Rich
Posted in Bible and money, business, business man, christian business, Christian entrepreneur, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, creativity, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial stewardship, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, how money works, make money, money, money works for you, personal finances,
Get rich SLOW
Posted in Bible and money, business, business man, Christiain entrepreneur, christian business, Christian entrepreneur, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, compounding interest, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, financial stewardship, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, how money works, make money, money works for you, patience, personal finances,
Tagged ronald read
Nebuchadnezzar’s statue: Prosper for people not to show off
Posted in Bible and money, business, business man, Christ, Christiain entrepreneur, Christian, christian business, Christian entrepreneur, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christianity and riches, Christians Get Rich, church finances, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, Financial Talk, financial,, God and money, God over money, money, personal finances,, pray finances
Emotional hijackings
They screw up your success.
Posted in Bible and money, business, christian business, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, church finances, emotional intelligence, EQ, Financial Talk, financial,, formula for success, get rich, God and money, God over money, money, personal finances,, self development, success
Tagged emotional hijacking, frustration, self sabotage, stress
Entrepreneurs WATCH for opportunities
Posted in Bible and money, business, business man, christian business, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, church finances, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, money, opportunities, personal finances,
Success is a poor teacher. So too is failure.
Posted in Bible and money, business, christian business, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, money, personal finances,, success
Tagged failure, learning in life
You want to win? Prepare yourself to lose.
Luck in business and investing
Posted in Bible and money, business, christian business, Christian finance, Christian work ethic, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, God over money, hard work, luck, money, money and marriage, personal finances,, protestant work ethic, work, work ethic
Effort twice as good as talent
Posted in American Dream, Bible and money, Christian finance, Christian work ethic, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, dreams, effort, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, hard work, money, personal finances,, protestant work ethic, talent, work, work ethic
Spouses who support entreprenuers
We couldn’t do it without our supportive significant other
Posted in Bible and money, business, christian business, Christian finance, Christian marriage, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, God over money, Marriage, marriage and entrepreneurialship, marriage and finance, money, money and marriage, personal finances,, spouse
Tagged Bible, Christianity, God, inspiration, Jesus, life, prayer
MSIs
What are MSIs? Why do you need them?
Hint: Multiple Streams of Income
You need them in case one stream dries up. Or doesn’t produce enough.
Posted in American Dream, Bible and money, business, christian business, Christian finance, Christian work ethic, christianity and finances, dreams, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, God and money, hard work, money, personal finances,, protestant work ethic, retirement, work, work ethic
Tagged msi, multiple streams of income
Not an expert yet? Don’t worry.
Posted in ambition, being driven, Bible and money, business, christian business, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, driven, experience, expert, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, hard work, money, personal finances,, success, success driving
Stress and boredom are opposites. Both extremes are unhealthy
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Can Christians read Think & Grow Rich?
Act. Don’t overthink.
Posted in action, ambition, Bible and money, business, christian business, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christianity in action, Christians Get Rich, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God, God and money, God over money, money, personal finances,, success, taking action
Tagged Christian prosperity, getting ahead, mindset, overthinking, prosperity
Don’t stop making strides
Team-building
A lot of people hate team-building. But it’s a surer way to success.
The role of PURPOSE in success
Hint: It’s gotta be bigger than you just making a lot of money.
Posted in ambition, Bible and money, business, business man, christian business, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, money, personal finances,, success, success driving
Don’t stress over money when you try to earn it
Posted in Bible and money, Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, God and money, money, overcoming stress, peace, personal finances,, pray finances, stress, success
Tagged business, businessman, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit
Grit, more important than talent
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Tagged entrepreneurial spirit, girt, swimming, talent, Westpoint
The Isaac blessing
Does the Bible promise financial blessing?
Get in the money game
If you don’t play the game, you can’t win it.
Posted in Christian finance, christianity and finances, Christians Get Rich, financial advisor, Financial Talk, financial,, get rich, money, personal finances,, pray finances, self development, success
Tagged invest, investing, investments, is money a game, Los Angeles, los angeles metro, play the money game, the money game
Nikki Cannon, building African American wealth in Los Angeles
People told Nikki Cannon’s mom, diagnosed with dyslexia, to be a typist. With bigger ambitions, she, notwithstanding, graduated with a bachelor degree, a master’s and a Phd. She became a university professor and a consultant for the U.S. Congress on social justice.

Triumphing over tough times was always part of Nikki’s life. Today she holds six professional licenses and an MBA and is building a team of financial professionals with World Financial Group. “I definitely did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth,” she told The Pace.
While she was in high school in Hawaii, her mother packed one suitcase and she and Nikki fled a physically abusive husband/step-dad. Mom and daughter landed in LAX, got a hostel room for two weeks and ate at soup kitchens until Mom got a job at Burger King.
Yup, a PhD flipping burgers. “She made it work,” Nikki says. “Honestly, I don’t feel like I came from poverty. I had a great childhood. There was never any obstacle that she was not going to overcome.” Eventually, mom landed a job with Children Protective Services and segued back to academia. For her part, Nikki was a stellar student at Los Angeles High School who, ironically, didn’t plan to go to college.

“Have you heard back from any of the colleges you applied to?” a college counselor called after her one day. No, she responded. She wanted to take time off to help out Mom. He looked at her grades and her SAT. It was too late for the UCs and Cal States, but she could still apply for private schools. At his insistence, she applied to four universities and was accepted into all four. Read the rest: Nikki Cannon financial advisor
Kevin Robinson couldn’t afford to buy books, so he just read them at the bookstore. Today he is rich.
Despite making millions in real estate, Kevin Robinson, 38, scrimps on groceries, eating oatmeal, tuna out of the can, and frozen grapes instead of ice cream. He makes a point of always buying in bulk.

“My family thinks I’m just as cheap as hell,” Kevin says on a MarketWatch video. “They say, you’re just cheap. Go buy some real ice cream. But little things start to add up for me, and (living frugally) has been very, very good for me in building up my net worth.”
Today, Kevin Robinson — who calls himself Kayr — administers a real estate empire, but he grew up in “deep poverty” in Philadelphia. He serves as an example of someone God provided for abundantly as he gave to God’s work.
“No one in my family was financially literate,” he says. “What happened to me is that I was motivated because when I was 13 or 14 years old, I noticed my mother struggled with money and our local church was always raising money.”
So, he went to the local bookstore and read everything on finance, money management and real estate. He didn’t buy the books. He didn’t have the money to do so. He didn’t even have money for the bus to get to the bookstore. He walked there every weekend and spent the day reading them in the store throughout middle school and high school while his friends played sports.

“I would say, ‘I’m going to master this material. No one’s going to know more than me,’” he remembers. “I sat down. I read the book for free. I put it back.”
Throughout his childhood, Mom had to move 10 times. Though instability was not ideal, Kevin found inspiration.
“It looked like the landlord had all this power. He gets to decide who lives and who stays in his property,” he says. “I said to myself, ‘What am I going to do? Am I going to become the homeless person or the teenage dad? Or am I going to become the landlord or the business owner?’
“I decided to become the landlord and the business owner.” Read the rest: He read books on riches at the bookstore because he couldn’t afford them, then Kevin Robinson became rich.
Posted in Christ, Christian, Christian family, Christian news, Christian testimony, Christian work ethic, Christianity, Christianity in action, Financial Talk, God, God's plan, personal finances,, real Christianity, real issues Christianity, wealth
Tagged Brooklyn, cobbs corner, deep poverty, KAYR, KAYR consulting, kevin robinson, Philadelphia, property manager, real estate, real estate empire
Jeff Levitan on teaching orphans in the developing world the principles of wealth
Jeff Levitan had made millions by age 30, so he did what was expected: he retired to his beautiful home and a life of luxury funded by investments that would continue to churn out income for the rest of his life.

Two months later, he came out of retirement, finding himself bored.
Jeff realized that he needed something better than money and its trappings. He needed to find a higher purpose to animate his life.
Today, he’s back at financial advising and making money. The difference now is that he launched the All For One Foundation, which establishes orphanages around the world.
These are not your typical orphanages. He refers to them as “prosperity centers.”
If that name gave you pause, it does for a lot of people. They’re teaching the lessons of capitalism to poor little kids in countries with weak economies. Are the principles of wealth creation and wealth management the exclusive domain of developed countries? Or do they apply to the rest of the world also?
Jeff’s initiative is going to find out.
While the United Nations throws money at the world’s problems, the All For One Foundation is teaching some of the poorest orphans in the worlds how to break the cycle of poverty for future generations.
“All For One is doing more than just giving children of the world hope,” says a promotional video. “All For One is actively working towards building the systems needed not just to survive but to thrive. We’ve seen firsthand the lasting impact our projects have had around the world.”
For 20 years, these orphanages and schools in Sierra Leone, Nicaragua and 27 other nations, offer 25,000 kids (and sometimes their moms) shelter, food, health care, clothing and education — both regular academic classes and special financial courses.
Financial education – the stuff of Warren Buffett – in the developing world. Wrap your head around that.
Jeff Levitan is undaunted by the quixotic nature of his dream. Read the rest: Jeff Levitan’s ‘prosperity centers’ orphanages with All For One Foundation.
Posted in Christ, Christian, Christian family, Christian living, Christian love, Christian ministry, Christian news, Christian service, Christian testimony, Christianity, Christianity in action, Christianity in Africa, Christianity in Latin America, Financial Talk, Jesus, personal finances,, real Christianity
Tagged All For One Foundation, christian orphanages, developing countries, developing world, early retirement, finance, finances, finances for ministry, financial blessing, financial breakthrough, financial planning, financial priniciples, Financial prosperity, financial stability, Jeff Levitan, orphanages, riches, World Financial Group
Tithing inspired them to get debt free
Newlyweds Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog didn’t worry too much about their $114,000 in combined debt since they both had good jobs. He worked for a New York-based IT firm and she was a licensed mental health counselor.
“I felt like we’ll pay it off whenever we pay it off,” Jhanilka says on a CBN video. “There’s no rush, just kind of like everybody else does, you have car payments, you have student loan payments, this is just part of life.


But as they attended church, they were challenged to think about giving more to help others in need and to think about creating generational wealth, what they hoped to pass along to their children one day.
“I’m going to church now. I want to be a part of it. I want to support,” Anthony says. “The same way we were budgeting for our food and for our clothes, we were budgeting for our tithing as well.”
By budgeting, they reigned in their expenses. The couple took another step; they supplemented their income with side hustles. Anthony signed up his new car for peer-to-peer rental. Jhanilka started a dog sitting business. Anthony worked at a gym on weekends. The industrious couple also started a cleaning business.
Within two years, they had paid off their student loans and credit card debt.
“As we were raising our income, we were tithing,” Anthony confides. “The money we were tithing was never ‘felt’ because we were always getting it back.” Read the rest: Get debt free in God.
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Tagged Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog, Bible, debt free, financial integrity, gym, stewardship, tithe, tithing