Everything You Need To Be Happy Is Within You By: Bro.Bo Sanchez

Bo’s Note: I’m still dizzy with a “spiritual” hangover.  Why?  We ended our 4-Day KerygmaConference 2013 yesterday—and it was beyond amazing.  Imagine: 20,000 happy people were there yesterday—now inspired and ready to bless the world.  I’ll tell you more about it some other time.  Before I end, I just want to give a big THANK YOU to the 1300+ fantastic volunteers who made our Conference historic!  I love you, guys.  You’re amazing!   And now, for my message…

Everything You Need To Be Happy Is Within You

It was Sydney Smith who said, To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.  I believe him.

At the end of the day, there’s only one thing that can make you happy.  It’s called love.

A cliché?  So what?  It’s the truth.

You’re born for love. 

You’re designed for it.  Every cell of your body, every part of your soul is created for love.  I’m shouting it from the rooftops: Only love can make you truly happy…

       Surround yourself with love.  And practice it daily!

People in their deathbeds never say, “I wish I bought a Ferrari,” or “I wish I spent more time in my office…”  Listen to people in their dying hour and you’d hear the same regret: “I wish I spent more time loving…,”

I believe that relationships are the most important things in our lives—more important than all the wealth in the world.

By the way, how many of you have tried to quench your thirst with salt water?

Don’t bother trying.  It doesn’t work.

The only thing that saltwater does is make you even thirstier.

Money is like saltwater.   No amount of money will quench your inner thirst for love and happiness.  It’ll only make you thirstier.  You want more and more and more until you drop dead from spiritual malnutrition.

       Learn to love everyday!

       Let this be your highest ambition in life: To be a great lover!

       So when the money comes, you’ll make money a servant of love.  (As a financial mentor, I always teach people to earn more money—so that we can use money to love more.)

       Everything you need to be happy is within you.

Ask yourself: Are you a loving person?  Are you kind, generous, forgiving?  Do you love yourself too?  Rate yourself from 1 to 10, with 10 being most loving.  You’ll notice that your score will be your score for personal happiness too. 

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

Let Money Make You Holy By: Bro.Bo Sanchez

      Yes, money can make you holier!

      This can be a shock to some of you.

      I’ve met people who say, “Earning too much money means I’ll not be pleasing to God anymore.”

      I don’t agree.

      I believe that if you handle money the way God wants you to handle money, and then it’ll draw you closer to Him. 

       There’s a big difference between sayings, “I want to get rich for myself!” and “I want to earn more so I can bless the world!”

       The gulf between these two is astronomical.

       One will give you peace.  The other, misery.

       The latter will give you wings for your flight to Heaven.  The former?  A special necklace with a ten-ton boulder as pendant.

      Personally, I’ve made my choice a long time ago.

      I want the wings!

      I want to earn money and love God with every cent I have.

      Because of these beliefs, for many years now, I give a lot of my income away, and have enormous joy doing so.

      Friends, you have a choice.

       You can let money make you evil and corrupt and selfish and miserable.  Or you can let money make you closer to God and happy forever.  As the Bible says, Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.  (2 Corinthians 9:10)

      Ask yourself: Has your money made you holier?  Or has it made you un-holier?

Work On Your Soul First—

And Later On, Your Money

      Remember: If you’re spiritual and emotional life can’t handle the financial blessing, it will destroy you.  Because your spiritual and emotional life is the basis for your financial life.

      Why? I believe a healthy spiritual and emotional life will make you faithful, loyal, humble, loving, honest, and responsible—stuff you need for earning AND managing your money.

      Let me tell you a story about my friend Sally (You know this isn’t her real name.)  For years, Sally was struggling financially.  Because she couldn’t keep a stable job.  I remember she even had to borrow money from me to attend our prayer meetings.

      One day, Sally’s father was killed in an accident at work—and his company was partly at fault.  The company was afraid of being sued and so gave my friend’s family millions in an out-of-court settlement.

       Sally was now awash with a sea of money!  From someone who had no transportation money to attend a prayer meeting, she now drove a brand new car.  Ironically, she stopped attending the prayer meeting because she said she became too busy with her “new” life.

       But after two years, we were shocked to hear that Sally sold her car as all the money she had was now gone. 

       Soon, Sally went back to begging for transportation money so that she could attend our prayer meetings again.

       Such a sad story.

       What happened?

      Sally’s spiritual and emotional life wasn’t ready for the amount of money she received.

       I urge you: Work on your soul first—and later—your wallet.

      May your dreams come true,

      Bo Sanchez

SOURCE:  http://bosanchez.ph/let-money-make-you-holy/

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DREAM BIG, START SMALL By: Bro. Bo Sanchez

 

He resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem. – Luke 9:51

 

One day, a friend tells me, “Bo, I’m talking with some Japanese billionaires. They’re selling a prime property of 200 hectares for a malunggay factory.” Wow.

       On another day, he tells me, “I’m brokering a deal with the Koreans. They want to invest 100 billion to start an herbal company.” Amazing.

       And after each conversation, he’d tell me, “Bo, once this deal is finished, I’ll donate P25 million to your ministry.”       But sadly, I’ve been talking to the guy for 13 years, and not a single deal has pushed through.

       What’s wrong with him? He’s not starting small. He’s trying to catch big fish before small fish.

       Start small. If you start small, you make small mistakes. But if you start big, you’ll make big mistakes. That’s very costly and painful.

       This applies to our ministries, too. We dream big for God, but we start small. As we get better in our service, we grow bigger.

       God uses us in Jerusalem first — in our home ground. If we persevere and are faithful in doing His will, He will expand our impact to the entire world. Bo Sanchez (bosanchez@kerygmafamily.com)

 

Reflection: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed... Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree....” (Matthew 13:31-32)

 

Help me to grow in the virtue of perseverance, Lord.

 

St. Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin, Patroness of the Missions, pray for us.

SOURCE: KerygmaFamily

Purify Your Thoughts About Money By: Bro. Bo Sanchez

 I receive tons of letters from readers, most of them happy, but some of them heart-rending.

       Just yesterday, one letter I read was from a man who was poor all his life.  He didn’t even know how he’d get food for his family the following week.  Sure, he had a job but it paid miserably and wasn’t even enough to keep his kids in school.

       I opened another letter the other day and read about a woman who had so much debts, her monthly payables are double her monthly income.  And according to her, she’s already living very, very, very simply.  She hasn’t bought a new dress for ages, never goes to movies unless it’s a freebee, and has sold most of her belongings already.

       You know that I recommend the simple life.  But not having enough money for your basic needs isn’t the simple life.  That’s poverty, and that complicates life.

       Read carefully.  Money isn’t everything and people are totally mistaken if they think that money will solve all their problems and make them happy.  But we do need money to live.  It’s because of letters like these that made me launch my financial crusade.  I want to help good people make money.

      And the first step to making money is to purify your thinking towards money.

      If somewhere in your brain, you think that money is evil, that it is unspiritual to earn money—then somehow, even subconsciously, you will find ways of AVOIDING money.  I’m serious…

     But the Bible doesn’t say that money is evil; the love of money is.  Money is a neutral thing that can be used to love or hate, to build or destroy, depending on how you use it.  In other words, it can make you holy or it can make you evil—much like anything else in life.  It all depends on whether you follow or violate the laws written in the fabric of the universe concerning its use.

     Purify your thinking towards money by embracing the truth that God wants you to have some material things to live a humane life, enough for your needs, and more than what you need, so that you can be generous.  In fact, the Bible says, If a man will not work, he shall not eat.  (2 Thessalonians 3:10)  and All hard work brings a profit…  (Proverbs 14:23)

     Right now, wherever you are, make a faith statement that your Creator wants to provide for your needs.  Make a faith statement that God wants you to work and earn for a living and be responsible towards your family.

     Also, it’s important to watch your attitude towards those who are earning well.  Do you resent them?  Do you feel that they are unspiritual?  Do you feel that they used deception to earn that kind of money?  If you continue to have these thoughts, you’re telling yourself that money indeed is bad and unspiritual and can only be taken by deception.  Banish these thoughts!

Purify Your Motives About Money

     Motives need to come from your highest values if we want to live freely.

     Ask yourself: Why do you want more money?

     To provide for the basic needs of your family?

     To fulfill your God-given responsibility as spouse and parent?

     To be more generous to those in need?

     To have more personal freedom to love?

     When you inwardly feel that your motives are in line with your highest values, then you’ll approach your moneymaking endeavors as a whole person.  You’ll move and walk and talk with integrity.  With peace and happiness!  The journey will be pleasurable.

     But if you inwardly feel that your motives are not in line with your highest values, then you will work towards earning money as a divided person.  If your innermost motive for earning more money is merely for selfish opulence, your highest values will rebel against that and you’ll experience a loss of integrity—a disintegration in your character.  You may reach your financial goals, but you will never be at peace.

     The solution?

     Follow your conscience and change your motives according to your highest values.

     Earn money with nobility.

     Make money without robbing your soul.

     Purify your motives towards making money.

       May your dreams come true,

       Bo Sanchez

SOURCE: http://bosanchez.ph/purify-your-thoughts-about-money/

Have You Found Your Flow? By: Bro. Bo Sanchez

  Flow is powerful.

For the great achievers, Mozart, who had 600 compositions, and Thomas Edison, who had 1,093 inventions, and Isaac Asimov, who wrote 475 books, they have found their “flow”.  (So far, I’ve written 35 bestselling books, so yes, in a small way, I’ve found my flow too.)

 David Myers says, To be in the flow is to be unself-consciously absorbed.  Think of a situation where you get so caught up in an activity that your mind doesn’t wander, that you become oblivious to your surroundings, and time flies.

What does flow mean?  To help us understand it, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Don’t ask me to pronounce her name) created this chart below…

If your job challenges are high but your skills are abysmally low, the result is anxiety. That’s what happens to the new salesman who faints every time he faces a client.  He should either get a new job that matches his skills—like a mattress quality tester for some bed manufacturer—or get training to upgrade his skills in selling.

If your job challenges are low and your skills are low as well, you’d get apathy.  An example would be an accountant who doesn’t even know how to use a calculator but doesn’t worry one bit of losing his job because his father owns the business.

  If your job challenges are low but your skills are high, you produce boredom.  That’s what happens to a gifted craftsman and carpenter who has the ability to build beautiful mansions but works for a factory that manufactures nothing else but low-budget 6”x3” wooden caskets.

If your job challenges are high and your skills are equally high, you’ve got the best result: flow.  When you work, time ceases to exist.  You enjoy yourself, you feel as though you were born for the job, and if you had a chance to live your life again, you’d be tempted to choose the same profession!

Evaluate your present job right now.  Does it give enough challenge for you?  And do you have enough skills to match those challenges?   If you see an inequality, what can you do about it?

 Find your flow!

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

SOURCE: http://bosanchez.ph/have-you-found-your-flow/

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