The UK Telegraph is reporting that we face “extreme danger” in the financial sector on a worldwide level. They say that without “immediate intervention on every front by all the major powers acting in concert, we risk a disintegration of global finance within days. Nobody will be spared, unless they own gold bars.”

Germany has their own version of Lehman Brothers weakening their country and Chancellor Merkel had to guarantee all German savings to stave off panic as did Ireland. Netherlands is nationalizing their banking system. Ireland and Greece have had to rescue all their banks. Iceland is facing a collapse similar to what Argentine experienced and the US commercial paper market was virtually shut down. With all these things going on, there is talk about an unannounced bank holiday which would mean no access to funds for awhile. Probably won’t happen, but if it did would you know how to survive in that kind of chaotic environment?

I’m going to bet against that happening for now but we are definitely coming through the gate into a new economy with a new landscape and new rules that we are all rather unfamiliar with. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, there is opportunity in crisis. Blessed are the peacemakers who know how to calm the storm or at least navigate through it for they shall be called problem solvers and children of the Most High God.

So would you like to know how to do business without money? Try the Brazil Nut Effect. I write extensively about it in my new book which is getting early rave reviews, Rainforest Strategy. It’s the concept of trading value for value instead of money for services or price for price as in bartering. What do you have in abundance that someone else would put a high value on? What do they have in abundance that you put a high value on? Learning how this process works is really quite simple but can literally catapult you forward in your business without spending cash.

I know whereof I speak. I once traded what I had in abundance (how to sell more products or services by asking more questions) for what one of the largest business magazines in the world had in abundance (advertising space). I provided my unique body of information in exchange for a full page ad that was selling at the time for $63,000 per issue. Our agreement called for multiple issues, making the value of the agreement a few hundred thousand dollars. What that exposure did for me, goes even further.

Here’s what I suggest you do. Check out the book here and order it now. We’re talking lunch money here. No big investment. Then read it and start learning how to function in the new economy like a rainforest – creating abundance from scarcity! Then tell me what you think…

The Way Our Country Got Into This $700 Billion Dollar Mess Is Not The Way We’ll Get Out Of It!
The Rules Have Changed!
How Will Your Business Survive?

What’s happening on Wall Street is not isolated…

It’s a reflection of the way we as Americans have run our businesses and our lives. The jig’s up. Sure, most of us have not stooped to the levels of corruption and deception now being investigated by the FBI in companies like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and Lehman Brothers. But too many of us are over extended, weighted down by debt and a slave to a system that is crumbling around us. We are in financial debt, time debt, email debt, relationship debt and the list goes on and on.

But what if God had a business model that could change all that?

Rainforest Strategy is a revolutionary way of approaching life and business that will put you on the fast track to regaining control of your time, your money and your life. Listen. The rainforest is a system… the most productive, diverse and fruitful ecosystem on the planet – despite having limited capital (topsoil) to work with. How it produces so much abundance from relative scarcity – all at the speed of peace – is what every business person needs to know!

According to Zig Ziglar, “business leaders at all levels can benefit from Rainforest Strategy”. Following the strategies contained in this book will allow you to function in a zone where you are no longer the slave, but the master. Where you can acquire products or services of high value without cash and without bartering.

Inside this book you will also discover:
•    The single most important thing that powers the rainforest and helped Wes Cantrell, a Christian service tech go from the shop floor to the top floor to become CEO of Lanier Worldwide, growing it to a $1.5 billion company!
•    The secret every leaf in the rainforest is governed by that will allow you to produce wealth quietly and consistently while maintaining a state of peace.  Without that secret you will always wonder why your growth is limited, why you keep hitting an invisible barrier and why you never reach your goals.
•    The unseen predator that can destroy you and your business when you are most vulnerable and how you can protect yourself from that predator whenever it comes.

Paul tells us in Romans that the hidden things of God are revealed in the created order, that His wisdom and character are embedded in the things He made. Even Solomon understood this and maintained a zoo and spectacular gardens to learn how God does things. Find out why Solomon said, “ it is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter” and check out this incredible new book from Michael Q. Pink

Rainforest Strategy is on sale now for only $14.95 as an E-Book or $21.95 as a hardback book. Includes a FREE BONUS gift valued at $47! Click here for details.

A new reality is upon us. The economic world as we know it has shifted in a big way and there’s more to come. Soon. But life will continue. So will business, but it will require different skills or at the very least, additional or new skills. Are you prepared?

Soon, the means and methods you exercised to provide for you and your family will feel the squeeze, if not already. For many of you, a slight constriction in your cash flow is the difference between keeping your home or losing it. For over a year, I have told any of my friends and all of my clients that I was very concerned for the fourth quarter of 2008. We as a nation are proceeding through a gate in 2008 and what is on the other side includes a different way of surviving.  We must be prepared.

I have been seeking the Lord for a new model for doing business for the last 3 ½ years and some of you have heard me speak about the rainforest (something God made) as a business model. That is primarily because it is a system (an ecosystem) that flourishes and thrives despite having limited capital (topsoil) to work with. How it produces abundance from scarcity is what you and I need to know more than ever.

On Friday, my new book, Rainforest Strategy is being released. We will be offering a bonus one hour audio download called Rainforest Roundtable for all of you who receive my emails. I will tell you more about the book this week, but for now, it is sufficient to tell you that it is all about creating abundance from scarcity, accomplishing much in less time and all of that without the stress that usually comes from higher productivity. I am urging you now to watch for the email on Friday and order your copy with the free download. We will ship it out right away.

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward… Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” (Hebrews 10:35,38 & 12:1)

I write to you today from Costa Rica where I am wrapping up a three year study of the rainforest as a business model. What I have learned about how God gets abundance from scarcity is absolutely amazing and I can’t wait to share it with everyone when the book comes out in October. The publisher is calling it The Planet’s Most Successful Business Model. I am putting the final touches on the book on this trip.

I am writing from here today because I am burdened for you. I am concerned that you, like me, are experiencing what for us is an unprecedented battle against our souls. It’s a battle to weary us, to take us out of the game and to make us irrelevant. I feel it and I am pretty sure you feel it. Some of the battle is blatant and out in the open and much of it is disguised like the Fed takeover going on this week.

There is a shift coming of monumental proportion and what I am striving for and what I am pleading with you for is that we as a body of believers, press into God like never before. The greater the battle, the harder we press in, not growing weary in well doing, but praying without ceasing and walking in love. I have more to share in this regard, but will save that for future blogs.