Starting a new business can be daunting.
I know a lot of people who’d like to start their own business. But they literally have no clue where to start.
Some have even taken a lot of steps getting all the right paperwork (i.e. registering a business name etc).
Some have also got together enough money to see them through their first few months or years of paying the mortgage and credit cards while supporting their new business.
Both the paperwork and the finance are tough issues that can take a lot of people out of the game before they’ve even started.
But the thing that seems to be the hardest thing in the world for a lot of people is how to get clients.
Read on to get tips from a new dad who can show us the way.

I can’t remember much of his actual words, but I do remember his challenge, from 1 Corinthians 9:20-27 to see how much money we could give away in our lifetimes!

It was not a greedy give-to-get message, but the complete opposite – a get-to-give message.

In my notes, I also made a list of his ten principles of wealth.

And I’d like to share those with you today.

Click here to read the top 10 tips of wealth, from one of Australia’s wealthiest men.

Now I’m not a big gambler on the gee gee’s but I do associate this time of year with gambling.

And that makes me think of strategies that involve risk and rewards.

One strategy, in particular, that I call the “double or nothing” strategy involves assets, insurance, possibly a mortgage, and someone you love.

Click here to find out more about how to double your wealth.

I was teaching a class of Small Business Management students last Monday. One of the students asked me a question and I got totally off-topic, in an effort to help them get their financial world handled better.

I showed her how to make money instantly, continuously, effortlessly and automatically (and legally, of course)….the way Jesus suggested. Click here if you’d like to know more.

• mortgage?
• taxes?
• debt?

The answer might surprise you. Click here to find out if you guessed right.

Have you ever seen anyone searching for their lost keys? Of course you have. They’re usually in a panic. Because we don’t really think ahead about keys. We only search for them at the last minute when we really need them.

I met my sister at MacDonalds recently and while we were sitting chatting, a young boy walked up and said “I think these keys might belong to one of you”. After ordering, she’d left her keys on the bench and then promptly forgot about them.

That’s what keys are like. Easy to forget. Easy to misplace. Easy to overlook. It’s almost like they are soldiers disguised in camouflage deliberatley trying to hide out and not be noticed.

So when it comes to wealth, have you lost your keys? Have you overlooked something small that is vital to unlocking your financial freedom? Click here to read more.

By initially focusing the original sound source in a narrow range then providing an environment where its expansion is corraled into a cone of anything-but-silence, it magnifies and multiplies the input until it explodes into a deafening roar resembling a stampede of angry elephants.

What would Jesus say about the Vuvuzela? And can the secrets of the vuvuzela help us to increase our finances and build wealth? Click here for the sounds of increase.

   In Genesis, we read the story of Joseph who literally went from a prisoner to prime minister in one day – all because of a budget plan that setup the nation for prosperity.

Last Tuesday night Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan unveiled our nation’s budget. It was televised live, and analysed to within an inch of it’s life by a colony of journalists, bankers, economists, industry representatives, welfare lobbyists, political commentators and, of course, the opposition.

Why does anyone, let alone so many people, care about the budget? Why don’t we just say to Kevin Rudd “Don’t stress over it Kev, I’m sure it all work out in the end. Forget about the budget”?

Because we all know that like Joseph of old, the national budget is not just a bunch of numbers on a bit of paper – it has real impact on our lives.

The decisions that Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan make about how they allocate the available income (and like last year, added debt on top of that) effect each and every one of us in lots of ways.

Whenever we drive on a main road, whenever we fill up with petrol, whenever we get paid by an employer, whenever we order a glass of wine, or do the grocery shopping, whenever we go to hospital, whenever we enrol in a university course, whenever we run our own business or if we’re on a benefit or pension – just about anything we do inside this country, our life is influenced by the national budget.

Our lives are a little bit better, or worse, depending on how the government spends its money. A few strokes of the pen and we could end up spending hours more in the hospital waiting room when we’re having an emergency. Or we could be treated quicker – it largely depends on where the money flows.

And since the government decided to spend more money than it earnt (again), it doesn’t just effect us, it effects the future generations who will have to pay off the debt.

The thing is we all have the power to effect our own lives in the same way – with a budget.

Yet many people don’t use this power wisely at all. We say to ourselves what we would never say to Kevin Rudd. We tell ourselves that it will all work out without a budget.

Life can be so much better when our money is allocated more efficiently. So why don’t we pay more attention to our own budget? If it’s good enough for the country, and businesses, charities, churches and even tuckshops right across the country, isn’t it good enough for us to have our own budget?

Read more about the true purpose of a biblical budget.

Like Esther of old I seem to have a knack for getting invited to places that I don’t really deserve to be invited to. It’s fun! One time I was out of work and on government benefits and I got invited to an event, which sounded like a lot of fun, so without knowing much about it I accepted. When I got there I asked what it was all about and I was told it was a special event purely to bless all the wealthy givers of the organisation.  Not only was I not part of the organisation, I hadn’t ever given anything to them, and I certainly wasn’t wealthy at the time. But that sort of thing happens to me a lot. Click here to read about the powerful invitation God’s given that can grow your wealth and increase your financial fortunes.

A Fat Cow isn’t normally the first thing you think about when you think of prosperity and abundance.

That’s why it was such a riddle when Pharoah dreamed about fat cows. All of his normal sources and supports were exhausted and he still couldn’t discover what his dream meant. That’s when someone suggested trying Joseph.

Joseph was a foreigner. Joseph was a former slave. If that wasn’t bad enough, Joseph was a current prisoner. But Joseph was about to become a financial advisor to the most powerful man in the world.

Joseph recognised two critical elements surrounding Pharoah’s dream that are the key ingredients all investors crave when creating wealth. Read on to learn how you can introduce them into your financial world. Click here.