Chapter One

How to Use This Book

This book is designed primarily to be your guide through a sevenmonth process of attaining spiritual growth and maturity in your workplace. This is not a book to speed-read through. Think of it instead as a seven-course meal to be savored—one that will feed your soul daily.

Each chapter provides one month’s worth of inspirational and motivational readings: The chapters define and explore in detail the seven S.U.C.C.E.S.S. steps. Each discussion is followed by a series of action points, journal exercises, and a prayer that you can apply in day-to-day situations over the course of the month.

The twenty devotional entries that follow each S.U.C.C.E.S.S. step provide readings for four five-day workweeks. These devotionals are written in the first person to help you more easily personalize the principles they offer. Some can be read as prayers. Action points at the end of each will give you an opportunity to begin the process of applying an idea presented in the devotional.

The devotionals are topical, and each keyword is indexed at the back of the book. In addition to using this guide as an organized study, you can also refer to it as needed for wisdom and encouragement when
you face specific on-the-job trials, circumstances, and events that affect your Christian walk. It is my belief that when biblical principles permeate the workplace, true success can be achieved.


S. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Step One
SEEK SEEK God, Your Real CEO

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Matthew 6:33

After more than twenty years of working for other people, I am