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This Jewish Inspiration Podcast is dedicated to learning, understanding and enhancing our relationship with Hashem by working on improving our G-d given soul traits and aspiring to reflect His holy name each and every day. The goal is for each listener to hear something inspirational with each episode that will enhance their life.
Welcome back everybody to way number 16. Way number 16 is b'myuts chora with limited business So there are a couple of ways to look at this. We can either look at limited business as saying don't work so much You know don't know there's another perspective also and that is If you're already doing business get the most out of it Don't just do business with a single-sided objective of making money You can build people you can build relationships you can Exemplify your godly traits in business
You can use it as an opportunity for growth and this is what the mission is telling us both of these ideas number one Don't be too Consumed by your business by your livelihood, but also Don't neglect the opportunity to use business as a tool for growth You'll have challenges a One of the big challenges that comes up in business is M. Una What is the first challenge of M? Una is that many people as someone I was talking to?
Yesterday they were calling they're really concerned that what am I gonna do? What's gonna happen? What's gonna be? Well, you know and they were very concerned about the markets are down There are a lot of things in the business world right now that are not looking too favorable and this individual Called me and was expressing their concern. So I said Stop stop with the kvetching. Stop with the concern I said the only thing you're concerned about is the future because you don't know what it is yet but
Tell me in the past 20 30 40 50 years of your life. Has a sham ever let you down Has he ever let you down? the answer is no, he's never let let that person down and And Remember that remember you have never been let down. There's no reason that anyone should feel That Hashem is going to let them down now and it's just a matter of a healthy perspective So that a person can grow from their business challenges another thing people aren't always honest
People aren't always honest in business So how does a person get to a point where they're able to trust? People where they're able to grow from every challenge that they face There's a lot a lot that we can learn every single day Just because someone's not in the study hall or at the torch center learning a Torah class Doesn't mean they can't grow in your business in your in your workplace is a place for your growth as well Manage life like a successful business. It's goal-oriented
Just like in business. You don't just do things Because why not you do it with a goal you do with an intention you do with a focus So to a person should also be goal-oriented in life Evaluate your priorities in business. The way we operate is we have a set of goals. We have priorities This is our objectives and then we set out our mission in the business to accomplish those things But you don't have that always in people's personal lives, well if you have certain objectives
What are you doing to accomplish those objectives? Get a strategic plan in your life and keep notes To get the wheels churning. There are a few questions that we can ask ourselves constantly number one What have I accomplished today person at the end of each day should evaluate their day? What have I accomplished today number two did I accomplish what I intended many times? We set out a goal for our day. I want to do this
I want to do that. Did I accomplish what I what I intended and if not ask the question Why didn't I accomplish what I intended? How am I going to improve for tomorrow? What what can I implement tomorrow that I didn't successfully implement today? What are my strengths and weaknesses? What's my profit? What's my loss? We do that in business, but in a personal level on a personal level what I'm what's my profit and loss Where are my where are my strengths and where my weaknesses?
What do I need to exhibit more of and what do I need to limit? How far have I come in my long-term goals and what's holding me back from growing? And a person wants to answer these questions to themselves and really Examine what's what's the direction that I'm heading in as an individual? You can work hard to make money. You can work equally hard to enhance your life People work all day all night to make money. Are they ready to work all day and all night to overcome anger?
Are they ready to work all day and all night to build a relationship to heal a relationship? They're ready to work all day for their career there Okay So what are you ready to work to be a good husband to be a good wife to be a good child to be a good? Parent are people ready to invest appropriately? What is your and this is a question we ask many times. What's your center of gravity? What really pulls you and
Invest in it and work on it and if it's the right thing Value your life. It's your most precious gift. You only get one chance at this talk to the Kabbalists about whether or not we get Recycled and whether or not we come back but for this for this for the argument of this class We only have one chance at this and let's let's make it the best we can The same qualities that help make you successful in business will help make you successful in life
If you apply them the same way if you apply your same diligence in your personal life as you do in your business life You're likely to succeed very very well Prioritize your life business is to support what you know the story of the guy who's you know, an elderly man He's a great fisherman and he's sitting on his little raft and he sees fishing and this big yacht pulls up next to him He says, you know, I see you pulling one fish after another fish after another fish
Why don't you you know get a bigger boat and you know fish more fish He says and then what is it then you'll be able to sell it and then what you make a lot of money and then what and Then you'll be able to retire and then what and then you will have to be on a little boat and fish again He says I have that now already see many people don't think I'm gonna make all that money and then what? You might even have it already now
When I retire then I'll go on vacation when I retire The whole process of making money that people are investing their entire lives in what is it for? All right, so you go to school to get a good job a job to make money money for family But then we don't even spend time with our family So what sense is that? the whole reason we did this whole thing of schooling in years of hard work and investing so that we can do good for our
Family, and now we don't even spend time with our family So a person needs to always realize a prioritize what's important in life The greater the pleasure we seek the more we need to work for it Have a mission statement. I think every family should have a mission statement my family we sat down and we established our own mission statement to have it hanging in my office and my study a Family mission statement. These are our values. These are our goals. This is our mission
This is what we want to accomplish and it's important to read it every once in a while to remember. What's our purpose? What's our objective in this world? Never has a man said on their deathbed. I wish I'd spent more time in the office One must limit his business to a point where he can enjoy and maximize life it's funny because I've spoken to many people recently who are over the age of 70 who are either retired or contemplating retirement and I encourage everyone don't ever retire
Don't retire find a way even if you may not be working in the same career or profession that you've worked your entire life Find a way to keep yourself busy I've seen so many individuals Sadly who after they retired declined rapidly in their health in their mental health their physical health Because they weren't they didn't have that regular routine and regimen of using their mind using their body Like they did their whole lives and and and it's it's really tragic to see that sometimes so don't just quit your work
Find the way to keep yourself busy at all time But at the same token limit your business to a point where you can actually enjoy and maximize life Don't be busy all day where you don't have time to actually live Torah is rarely found among those engrossed in trade and commerce Someone who's too busy to live most likely is too busy to learn There's an interesting an amazing story of the high Adam the high Adam was an amazing Torah scholar But he was a businessman
he was only known as a Torah scholar after he produced multiple books on halakha on Jewish law and In one of the introductions to his books he writes you might think to yourself What right does this individual have referring to himself to write a book on halakha? Who is he's just a businessman who runs around trade shows and and and goes, you know from from city to city as a peddler What does he know from halakha? See he says although I worked in business
My heart never left the study of Torah and every waking moment that I had I studied Torah And I learned Torah and they say about the hopper time He had a little supermarket or not a supermarket a mini market. He had a little mini market and in between customers He opened up his little mission Mishnah and he would learn a few missions And when the when the customer came to get to get his to check out at the cash register
The hopper time closed his book took care of his patient as soon as they left He opened up his book again not to waste a minute. Yeah, I need to provide a livelihood for my family But that doesn't exempt me from my study of Torah Think about what you'd like your legacy to be about and start working for it. What do you want it to say on your tombstone? Kind-hearted so be kind-hearted Loving generous so be loving and generous patient and Accepting so be patient and accepting
write out what you want on your tombstone and Then live for it The Mishnah states limited business Specifically doesn't say limited labor Because labor toil is a constant necessity a person needs to be busy While business is not Adam la amal yulad Business is not a necessity being busy is Adam la amal yulad King Solomon tells us in Proverbs Mankind was created to toil and that's our job We don't define a successful person by someone who's financially successful
But our definition is of a successful person is someone who's a good father Someone who's a good husband someone who's a good community member someone who's a responsible person that is a successful person, so let's readjust our Lexicon when we use words like a successful person Let's choose a real successful person so if you use the same method for wisdom as Businessmen used for money, then we can be billionaires of knowledge and life's true pleasures my dear friends
This concludes way number 16. I look forward to continuing the study of way 17