One characteristic all entrepreneurs possess is creativity. Give your child the space to find creative solutions to problems. Encourage them to share how they created various crafts, found new ways to use toys or solved a problem. Allow them to struggle and arrive at a solution on their own. Building their ability to problem solve, in a creative way, will help them to be successful in every area of life, including creating their own product to sell or beginning their own company.

Children become interested in the smallest things, that we often find boring. Have you ever noticed that your kindergartener wants to read the same book to you repeatedly? It is because she feels confident. No matter how many times you’ve heard Green Eggs and Ham, smile and be thankful that your child wants to read it for the 85th time. It is a sign that she values the feeling of confidence and wants to be successful. Also, have you ever watched a child try a new sport for the first time? It is likely that they repeatedly looked to you for encouragement. Mastering a skill builds self assurance, but before they have achieved mastery, children need to be edified. Find the balance between uplifting your child by praising them for their strengths and challenging them to try new things. Most importantly, teach them that God created them for a purpose and gave them talents that will help them achieve His goals for them.

Decision making comes naturally to a child. By the time your little one is two years old, they begin to voice an opinion. With many of the parenting philosophies that are becoming more popular, children are not encouraged to make decisions and experience the consequences of those decisions. Children know how to make decisions, but they need to be taught the ‘cause and effect’ relationship involved in decision making. That can only be done by allowing them to make decisions for themselves and experience what takes place as a result of those decisions. The size of the decision should correlate to the age of the child. Teach toddlers to make decisions by offering choices such as two clothing options for the day. Allowing your child to experience natural consequences when decisions are made is important. If your toddler chooses shorts on a cool day, they may be a little cold, but they will learn the importance of checking the weather before making that decision again. This teaches children to be less impulsive and more calculating when making decisions. It also teaches them how to seek council from someone they trust and view as successful. By the time your child is in high school, they will be making decisions that greatly impact their future. If you began allowing them to build their decision-making skills while they are young, you can be reassured they are much more likely to be successful. By the time they own their own business, they will know how to consider all options and prayerfully make a decision.

The thing all three of these characteristics have in common is that they are natural traits each young child possesses. Parents simply need to learn how to continue to encourage children to develop these skills. Encourage creativity, be uplifting to your child, and help them build decision making skills. These positive personality traits will help them to be successful throughout their lives.

This concept is the same with your family business. God will bless your family business if you do what you are supposed to.

God is sovereign, but the Bible also teaches responsibility. God wants you to take responsibility, follow Him and live by His Word, and if you do that He will step closer to you than you have ever felt him. You will never be a millionaire as a Christian until you learn to do the things God commands.

God won’t let you do it by yourself. He doesn’t want you to go off and be a self made man or woman. The world does it that way, because they have Lucifer. Satan did it, but they think their accomplishments are their own. When you strive to build a business on Biblical principles, you can rely on the promises of God.

You, as a Christian, know who is responsible when you are successful. It is God . He works with you and through you. The accomplishments are so much more fulfilling when you acknowledge that Almighty God has blessed you and your family. When you maintain respect for His sovereignty and serve Him using the wealth you have built, He will continue to bless your family business.

When you work in God’s family business, you understand your responsibility as a Christian, you learn to rely on God rather than yourself, and you respect His role as your heavenly father. When you work in God’s family business and follow His principles, you receive unimaginable reward.

People have an idea that Christians shouldn’t deal with money. Yet Jesus talked often about money. Why would we not want to have a business that is set up to encourage Christians and provide education for Christians in the world of finance? TRADEway is filling a gap in Christian education.

We strive to teach Christians what they can do to potentially make their money grow. This is something many people do not understand. As we teach people how to make money with their money, we also want to share biblical principles that help them in many areas, including family, business and finance.

Check out what TRADEway has to offer. You may find something of value to you.

We’ve been taught to send our children off to college to learn to do something that no one in the family has ever done, to be taught by people who don’t love them, then go and work in a corporation for someone who doesn’t love them. In fact, most managers do not want you to become more successful than they are, so they are not willing to teach you everything they know. When we spend so much time learning a new skill set and working for someone else, we have very little to show for a lifetime of work.

This country was founded on family businesses. We should save enough to start a family business, then we can begin to teach our children the skill sets that we learned. They will have their own bright ideas to combine with our original ideas. They will then teach those to the third generation, and each new generation can combine their talents and ideas to create a successful business with a competitive edge. That is what will create the potential for generational wealth.

We should not blindly follow what society now accepts as normal. We need to use a tried and true format that has the potential to create generational wealth for our families.

Expenses happen. Take a deep breath, and remember these three things when you find that you were wrong about a stock.

• Stick with the system. What we want you to do in order to keep with the TRADEway system is to have small expenses. So trade based on lines. Trade based on moving averages. Trade based on the system you have been taught.
• Be honest with yourself. If your original premise for doing the trade is broken, then don’t convince yourself that something else might work. When that plan is no longer working, have the integrity to go ahead and stop out of that trade. Take the small expense.
• Get ready for the next trade. It might be difficult to dwell on your mistakes, but take time to analyze the trade and determine how you can avoid a similar situation. View the expense as a learning experience.

Don’t allow pride to affect your trading outcomes. Be ready and willing to admit when you are wrong. Allow each experience to provide you with knowledge that will improve your skills and ultimately lead to the potential for greater success.