How to Start Your Business with or without Money: A Practical Approach to 'Small Beginnings' - Softcover

Eshun, Bridge Adams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490712046 ISBN 13: 9781490712048

Verlag: Trafford, 2013

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HOW TO START YOUR BUSINESS WITH OR WITHOUT MONEY will . . . - Offer you the best step by step practical and strategic guide on how a get your ideas off the ground to an amazing start with or without money - Offers the reader practical strategies that has been tried and tested by many successful entrepreneurs - Prove by real life stories and theories that we have whatever we need even before we ask - Prove to people why they cant rely only on money to start their businesses - Practically define once and for all the roadmap to starting a business without money - Serve as a hands-on manual for business start-up's - Defeat the myth that it is difficult to start a business without money - Teach parents how to teach their children how to start a business with whatever 'Talent' they have

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HOW TO START YOUR BUSINESS WITH OR WITHOUT MONEY

A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO 'SMALL BEGINNINGS'

By BRIDGE ADAMS ESHUN

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2013 Bridge Adams Eshun
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4907-1204-8

Contents

Introduction: The Paradox, 9, 
Resources, 13, 
Phase One: Why Start Small?, 21, 
Phase Two: Determining Your Position and Destination, 32, 
Phase Three: You Start at the Bottom, 55, 
Phase Four: The Next Step Additional Skills, strengths and knowledge required, 110, 
Phase Five: Prepare—The Rest Will Follow!, 127, 

CHAPTER 1

PHASE ONE

Why Start Small?

In the beginning God created heaven and earth and theearth was without form ...

—(KJV)Genesis 1:1

I once visited a church where the pastor asked for testimoniesto be shared to the glory of God during service. As it notablyhappens during such calls, lots of people got up to share theirtestimony including those who have heart-moving testimonies,those who want to thank God, and those who just get up becausethey want to be recognized or for whatever reason they hold. But asthey came, the pastor screened them down to ten people. After overtwenty minutes of nonstimulating and sleep-inviting testimonies,the whole church was becoming dull. Then it got to the turn ofthe last woman to share her testimony. When she stepped up, sheasked if she could speak in a local dialect since she could speak verylittle English though she understands very well when spoken to.The rather humble woman, crippled in one leg, gave the shortesttestimony; but her three-minute testimony got the whole churchgiving her a standing ovation for over three minutes to the gloryof God. According to her, she is not known very much in thechurch for her quiet nature except for the pastor who has had aninteraction with her though she has been a regular member of thechurch for some time.

Her testimony

Thank you, Pastor, for this opportunity, I will be asbrief as I can. I want everyone to know that God hasgiven each and everyone a gift and enough resourcesto use to its fullest if they so wish no matter theirsituation. Of all the gifts, the most notable of themis our minds. As long as we can change our mind-setand think of something, we can do it, and I am a livingtestimony.

As I stand before you, I don't know my mum or mydad. I have no formal education, never! And I amcrippled because my dad beat my mum and sackedher when she was pregnant with me according to thestory I was told as I grew up. My mother gave birthto me in a premature state and died during childbirth,and as a result of the beating I was born a cripple. Buttoday I stand before you to let you know that God hasdone something great for me, but I had to take the firststep of faith. Starting as a beggar on the streets of Lagosthen to a basket weaver, today, I am a proud owner ofa business in London and Nigeria. I cannot tell you myentire story on this stage, but all I can say is just pray toGod and you will know and understand that no matteryour circumstance, if you are ready to move withhumility, God will help you to get to your dreams withthe right attitude. I want to use this opportunity tothank God and this church for its teachings on success.This is where it all started when I was brought here bythe pastor who picked me off the street.

I want to thank you once again, Pastor, for the love youshowed me by bringing me here and thank God forusing you to make me a successful woman. With this, Idonate to this church its first sixty-seated bus. My versefor you is Genesis chapter 1 verses 28-30. Thank you.

This woman's story really got me to understand what the Biblesays in Genesis chapter 1 verses 28-30. I started reading it withmeditation and rapt attention like she advised. "And God blessedthem, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, andreplenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over thefish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every livingthing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I havegiven you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of allthe earth, and every tree, in which [is] the fruit of a tree yieldingseed; to you it shall be for meat And to every beast of the earth,and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth uponthe earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb formeat: and it was so."

If this were a Bible class, I would have taken time to break it downand explain one after the other, but these verses got me to reallyunderstand that everything we need to push us to where we desireto be in life was given to us in abundance from creation. Godmade everything and said, "Behold I have given to you ..."

The natural resources we have, the life we share, the air we breathe,the people around us, the brains we have, and so on. All theseresources are worth every penny we need to get started. All weneed to do is to convert the abundance of these resources at ourdisposal into cash when need be. It's simple. As anonymously said,the best and most important things in life are free.

The Beginning of Creation

According to the Bible, before God created the heavens and earth,it was without form (zero). The only resource we know he hadavailable unto him was his unlimited power (the word of mouth,the same power we have.) The Bible talks about the power of thetongue in Proverbs 18:21. It says, "The tongue has the power oflife and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit." God usedthis power to the best of his abilities. But he just did not just getup to do it; he planned what to do, how to do it, what to startwith, where to start from, had the readiness and desire to do it;and he got into action and at every point in time. He stopped toanalyse and see if what he had done was good and assess if he wason track. I am sure you got the sequence.

Let's consider the birth of a baby. Even before the baby comes out,within the nine months in her mother's womb, her food would havealready been prepared in the form of breast milk. (This is free.) Butthat is even the second most important provision made for the babybefore she comes into the world. Before that, God had already inthe human system, provided every necessary and needed nutrition,food, and substances that will help the baby survive in the mother.The question is when the baby comes out, who teaches the babyhow to suck the breast milk? No one, but as soon as she landsand the breast directed to her mouth, she stops crying and startsfeeding herself. How did she know that she has to suck? Accordingto science, a signal is sent from the mothers breast to the brain ofthe baby and that triggers the baby to start sucking. That is thefirst most important provision made by God to help a baby growwhen she gets into the world. (That same provision has been madefor you if you want to succeed.) All the baby needs is to be shownwhere the breast is. That's all. The rest of the action is up to him/her. The facilitator of the baby's growth came from three mainsources. Two were provided by God and one the baby's own effortto use what has been provided:

1. The breast milk: An already-made natural resource providedfrom creation.

2. The Mind: Her ability to know she has to suck the breastcomes from the mind, a creation of God that cannot beeasily understood by man. Eccl.3v11, "He has madeeverything beautiful in his time: also he has set the worldin their heart, so that no man can find out the work thatGod maketh from the beginning to the...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Trafford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1490712046
• ISBN 13: 9781490712048
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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