My Daily Business: Daily Nuggets for Getting Results

By Cedrick D. Brown and Dennis Borg

Question after question stirs within the mind of every businessperson, each one possessing the potential to sear the most well-intentioned conscience. Thus, a simple tool is needed to help you navigate through those difficult decisionsthose required moves that could affect the outcome of not only your or someone elses career, but the lives of entire families (were talking generations). The book My Daily Business by Cedrick Brown helps answer these major questions in a simple, practical way.

Cedrick, a former business executive, uses the book of Proverbs to help practically guide todays businessperson through their daily business.

My Daily Business gives the tools to todays businessperson to get the required results for a long timeeternity.

As business leaders, we touch many lives on a daily basis, and because of this we have a responsibility to impact those lives. This book helps me realize that I am responsible for making Gods business My Daily Business.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493100514

Cedrick D. Brown

Cedrick D. Brown was born and raised the last of eight children in Compton, California, which is labeled the “Gang Capital of the World.” After playing defensive back for the Philadelphia Eagles, he served as the team chaplain for the Eagles and the Temple University football team. He is the founding pastor of Commitment Community Church of Lindenwold, New Jersey—one of the most racially and culturally diverse churches in the state of New Jersey. His work has been featured in South Jersey Magazine, the Courier-Post, and Barclay Press. Cedrick is also the author of Influencing Your World, The Racial and Cultural Divide: Are We Still Prejudiced?, and Act Like A Man: Woman Can You Help Me?

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Day 1 Daily Nuggets

Day 2 Daily Nuggets

Day 3 Daily Nuggets

Day 4 Daily Nuggets

Day 5 Daily Nuggets

Day 6 Daily Nuggets

Day 7 Daily Nuggets

Day 8 Daily Nuggets

Day 9 Daily Nuggets

Day 10 Daily Nuggets

Day 11 Daily Nuggets

Day 12 Daily Nuggets

Day 13 Daily Nuggets

Day 14 Daily Nuggets

Day 15 Daily Nuggets

Day 16 Daily Nuggets

Day 17 Daily Nuggets

Day 18 Daily Nuggets

Day 19 Daily Nuggets

Day 20 Daily Nuggets

Day 21 Daily Nuggets

Day 22 Daily Nuggets

Day 23 Daily Nuggets

Day 24 Daily Nuggets

Day 25 Daily Nuggets

Day 26 Daily Nuggets

Day 27 Daily Nuggets

Day 28 Daily Nuggets

Day 29 Daily Nuggets

Day 30 Daily Nuggets

Day 31 Daily Nuggets

About the Author

Dedication

To Lisa: I couldn’t have failed without you letting me. I couldn’t have learned without you letting me fail. I couldn’t have succeeded as a businessman without learning from my many failures. You have graciously allowed me to take Spirit lead risk, which now I know, sometimes wasn’t lead at by Him! Furthermore, you have always allowed me to work hard and long if necessary, while keeping me balanced and grounded. Thank you, my love!

To Joshua, Jessica, and Jaime: You have always allowed Daddy the freedom to work hard for God and for others. I hope I have always modeled balance between work, family, and God. I pray that even my failures have helped you! I love you all more than you could ever imagine!

To Louis Charles Brown: Daddy, you were from the old school. I watched you—prior to the luxury of power tools—sweat in the Southern California heat to show me how to labor and to care for a man’s home and all who was dear to him. You modeled before me that rising early was a good thing for a man to do. And just for the record, I still naturally get up early because of you. Thank you!

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Coach Ted Williams, Coach Tom McCutcheon, Coach Allen, and Coach Seymour. You taught me that sacrifice and doing the things that others won’t do will equal success.

Thanks to the staff of the old Hyatt Cherry Hill. You allowed me to learn to lead you even when I was trying figure out life after football.

Thanks to the staff and general manager of the former Roy Roger’s by Marriott Corporation. You allowed my management skill sets to be refined with you.

Thanks to Dan Moore, Cookie Brinkman, Rick Gibellino, Graeme Bottger, Gary Acinapura, to all my former regional sales managers and district sales managers, to the marketing teams, operations teams, IT, and a host of customers. Thank you for all you have taught me as I endeavored to follow, lead, and ultimately serve all of you.

Thanks to the many businessmen and women who have sought my counsel. I have learned just as much as I desired to teach you—probably more!

Danny Guzman, thanks again for another Spirit lead cover.

Foreword

Dennis Borg

There are few people in this world that I respect more than Cedrick Brown, and I feel privileged that he has asked me to write the foreword to his book, My Daily Business. With a career that has included both participation in professional sports and management in the corporate world together with his present ministry as a pastor, Cedrick has a unique ability to speak into men’s lives.

The businessmen and professionals I work with have always been inspired by him when we have utilized him as a speaker in retreats, conferences, and workshop settings.

I have also watched the high regard in which he is held by other pastors in a group where Cedrick and I fellowship together. On a personal level, he has been a constant source of encouragement to me in my ministry, and I am blessed to call him a friend and brother in Christ.

What makes Cedrick so effective is his commitment to the truth of Scripture, his dependency on God in prayer, and his sensitivity to the leading of the Spirit. These qualities are reflected in the book you hold in your hand. The Daily Nuggets are vintage Cedrick—taking the wisdom of the Bible and putting it in language that the average man living in today’s world can relate to and use every day.

The preparation and application exercises also reflect his natural tendency toward the practical. James 1:22 (NIV) says, Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. That the word needs to be lived and not just thought about is Cedrick’s deep conviction (and mine). This book will help you, the reader, do exactly that. I highly recommend that you read it and do the exercises. But be careful—it just might change your way of living. I pray that it will.

Introduction

As a businessperson, I’m sure you have encountered situations that you’ve hoped for a user’s manual of some kind. A handbook that would answer those plaguing questions such as:

What do I do?

How do I correct this?

How should I respond?

What will happen if I . . . ?

Who will this affect?

How would this make me look?

How will this affect the organization?

How much will this cost me?

Should I keep him or let him go?

What would this do to my career?

Question after question stirs within the mind of every businessperson, each one possessing the potential to sear the most well-meaning conscience. Thus a simple tool is needed to help you navigate through those difficult decisions. Those required moves that could affect the outcome of not only yours or someone else’s career, but the lives of entire families—we’re talking generations.

My attempt with this book is to place myself in your shoes—the businessperson. Reminding myself of what I was feeling and thinking during those multimillion-dollar transactions that could have turned the direction of my entire year or career around with one new customer, one new project, through one agonizing decision. What did I draw from when I made the wrong decision that could have cost me my job? What did I turn to if I needed a breath of life in my day, year, or career? What source of wisdom could I, did I reach for when there was nowhere else to turn? My desire with this book is to help you with what helped me—wisdom for day-to-day living. Did you know that there are thirty-one chapters nestled within the book of Proverbs—one for each day of the month? In this book, My Daily Business, I’ve attempted to take each chapter of Proverbs and adapt it in such a way that it can be seen, understood, and applied in the daily life of a businessperson like you. In addition, within each day you will find the Getting Ready and Getting Results sections, which are designed to help motivate you to apply your "Daily