The Ministry of Business for Real Life

The Ministry of Business - summary

The Ministry of business tell u show to spritual principles can be connected to business. It tell us the story of two great LDS man who had life thier lifes in service of others. They explain some principles, both for the entrepreneur as a person and also for the business world. Those principles have been proved for them in their lives for many years. They both are witnesses of how those principles works in real life. The main idea of the book is help people to be success in the personal life as also in the business world and become a person who serve others in the comunity and the world.

The main principles taught in the book are: Divine guidance in business. The power of convenats. Integrity. The formula and how to get happiness in life. The humility to learn from others. How to have a financial fitness. Time management and a life with purpose. Giving back and service.. Each of those principle are teaching at the same time that Steven A. Hitz and James W. Ritchie (the authors) tell us about their personal story.

Divine Guidance in life – Personal Revelation

The first principles the authors share with us is the importance of personal revelation in life. The authors said that God is our Father in heaven. He has a plan for each of us and He want to help us to become successfuly in the best person we can. In the process of becoming the best version of us we need to follow the impresions or hunches you have in your life. Those impresions are revelation from God to you. When you receieve those kind of impresions is because God is showing you part of His plan to you. The best way to progress in this life is the following those impresions because it would help you to recognize the best option when they apper. It kind of revelation will help you to make the correct choises in life. But it is up to you to follow those impresions. The authors affirm “Hestitation…” talking about the consequenses form don’t follow the impresions “…will only delay your progress”. God can help us, and actually He does every day in our life, to become the best kind of persons we can be.

The Power of Convenants.

The convenants are kind of deals we make with God. You can promise something to him and in return God promises something to us. The real convenants in life are those which are made for a priesthood holder who has been ordain. But every of us can make promises to God in order to improve our life and get close to him. The convenants we did are a representation of our humility and the faith in God that he will help us if we do the right things.

Beware of the Doble Life – Be a person of integrity.

One of the most important things to do in order to keep your convenants is living a life of integrity. A lot of business person fall in the trap of being doble in their life. They can have a family and pretend to be a family meno r woman. But in the office or others places they act different. Even until the point the aren’t faithful to ther wives and husband. In order to receive divine guidance and keep your convenants you have to be faithful to your family, your duties and to yourselve. A person who don’t have integrity in some part of the way will fail and all his life can become a disaster. A person of integrity have to have thier values very clear and always live by those principles.

The  Formula and Hapiness

This principle is one of the most important priciples in the whole book. When you start to read about it you can start to discover the power behind this principles. The formula is what help the authors to achieve thier success in the business world, and they make the promise that each person who live the formula will have hapiness and prosperity in their life.

The formula is composing by six steps.

1)    Get up early

2)    Work hard

3)    Get your education

4)    Find you oil

5)    Make your mark

6)    Get prepare to be of serve

Those six steps in the formula are conected and each of them are very important. When you wake up early you will have a clear and active mind. If you work hard with a clear mind it will help you to make the right choises in order to do always a great job in what you do. If you work hard and you are always educating yourselve, you will have the abilities and talent to do great things that the world will pay you. With your educations, you will be in conditions to find opportunities in your life and when you take those opportunities is when you start to make things happen in your finances. When you are already in the world of business you have to leave your mark in what you do. The people preffer and pay more to those who make a great contribuition to life. And whe you did that you can be able to serve others in a better position. The formula works and is very important that every one use it and apply it in his own life in order to achieve success.

The Value of strong mentors.

The path of entreprenuership is hard. For those you are just beginnign the path of creating a new company or that want to make a life of meaning can be very difficult. That is one of the most important things about having a mentor. A mentor is someone who had walk the path you are beginning. This person have a lot of experience and can help you to go safety by this path. If you choose wise mentors and listen to them you can have a great chanse to overcome difficulties or even, don’t be close to those fails in the path. A mentor will help you a long the way in order you walk for it successfuly.

Finalcial Fitness

If well the money no is the principal objetive of a person, it is very important for all the things he or she does every day in their life. The truth is that the persons who have more money are in a better place to help others. By example and also because they have instruments, or the money, to make a contribuition in the life of others. The authors sostain that one of the principles reason they can give a lor of service to othres in church and also in the comunity is because they have achieve a finalcial independece. They invite every of us to use in a wise way our money in order to receive more each time.

Time management and a life with purpose. – the personal constitution

It is also one of the most important chapter in the whole book. The authors say that evey person can become the kind of person desires. The important thing here is to define what are your core values in life. When you decide what and how you want to be, you should write it down in a kind of affirmation. It will help you to become that kind of person. Is like the act as if principle in your life. In a subconsious way you will become to act like the person you want to become.

Another important principle here is the “productivity pyramid”. It say that you have to define your values after that you have to set long term goals. When you did that you have to fragmenting those long term goals in short term goals and them divide those goals in daily task. Once you have done that you are ready to life the life you want to life. You will use your time wisely and also you will have a life full of purpose.

Giving Back – Service

The idea of having a life with full of purpose, having a great financial fitness, have success in life is not just about become a great person. The main idea is to become a great person in order to help others to achieve thier dreams also. When you serve and only when you do that is when your life beginnig to have real sense.

The book of the Ministy of Business is a great tool for every LDS member and also fot every person who want to live a life full of purpose and full of service to others. It is the way that our Heavenly father want us to life our lifes. The only way to do that is to life by those principles who will help us to have a great life.