“Let there be wealth, and there was wealth” – 7 Entrepreneurial principles from Genesis 1 for financial success.

My favorite chapter of the bible is Genesis 1. I can't just seem to get enough of it. Reading through again, this time with my entrepreneurial goggles on here's what i found:

1.       All wealth is a mindset.

(vs1) All wealth stems from the mind, from a mind. A great mind. A sound mind. A grateful mind. Whether sane or insane (-depending on your perspective), there is a wealth mindset and you must possess it to be truly wealthy. The mindset of wealth tells you that all wealth is an idea, first conceived in the mind, before outwards.

The mindset tells you WORK! (Why you should work and when to work. It tells you how to work smart, and the value of multiplying yourself in others. It also tells you the value of good rest after working). 

The mindset tells you NETWORK! (Why it is important to leverage on others time, money and efforts). The mindset says EAT! (What to eat, what not to eat, when to eat, and when to abstain from food).
The mindset also tells you to read, forces you to think and makes you speak out. This mindset makes you appreciative- both of your work, and of your efforts. The mindset of wealth is developed, in a continuous process.

2.       All wealth is created.

(vs1) Look around you, what you see are people’s creations- some ingenious, others are simply commonsensical. Entrepreneurship entails creating. Entrepreneurship entails multiplying. As I always say, an entrepreneur is a person who takes/ creates one (1) thing, and multiplies it successfully.

Entrepreneurs create…a business, a plantation, a movement, a job, a website, a franchise, a legacy, a great child, a life!

3.       All wealth is a solution.

(vs 2-3) There will always be a problem to solve. An entrepreneur identifies problems as opportunities for creating solutions. It doesn’t matter what the problem is, or if the world understands or accepts that it exists. What matters is if you have the entrepreneurial spirit to muse over it and bring forth a solution. Whether or not you created the problem, as long as you can create a workable solution, the world will pay you a workable, valuable income.

4. All wealth is organization.

(vs 6) Entrepreneurs are organizers. They have to be to be successful. Everything in life involves management one way or the other. A good entrepreneur sets priority, and plans and programs, and does his work accordingly. Even when he has to delegate, he creates an organigram. Everything in nature/life stems from, and is composed of a structure- an organized structure. To be successful is to learn how to organize and be a good manger of resources.

5.       All wealth is busy.

(vs 11-28) Look through all nature, and all you see is busy-ness. The sea is constantly tiding, and the waves coming and going because the earth is rotating. The clock does not stop or tire in its endless pursuit. Your heart has to keep beating, your lungs breathing. The ants, they never seem to rest. The Sun never stops shining. Even when it seems an entrepreneur isn’t working, his brainchild is. Every good thing made required hard, busy work. There is value in working with your hands. A busy mind produces busy hands.

6.       All wealth takes time

(vs 31b) Creation took time! Creating takes time. Quality time management is at the heart of success- of your career, business, family or personal endeavours. It takes time to get a good outcome. It takes good time to bring forth great things. Any attempt to cut corners on time-based, time-proven steps and processes will only lead in the end to burnt fingers. A term baby is 37 completed weeks. A good meal is done. A sweet harvest is ripe. And as Warren Buffet quite succinctly captures it; “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

7.       All wealth has been created (but not made).

The fact that all wealth is created does not mean that you need to create anything new in order to become an entrepreneur. It just means that most times, you only need to make something new from the created raw materials. Sometimes, it means- ‘multiply what nature already made’. There is really nothing we use in nature that is newly created. All we do is excavate and mine, discover and transform; making the raw materials take a new form/shape/function.

So when you finally make it, remember, all wealth HAD been created…for you.