Our Journey Is Our Work: Creating My Obituary

By Russell R Shippee

Our Journey Is Our Work is the result of a dream. Looking down on my casket the preacher said, "He was a great insurance agent". I realized that was not the obituary I wanted. The dream was a wake-up call. There was more to life and I was missing it. My life had money and material wealth but was boring and unfulfilling. Knowing there was more, I dared to trade the known for the unknown. Finding a purpose and passion was the plan. Illness forced me to stop. It was the stopping that provided the space and learning to leap forward into a rewarding new life filled with value and meaning. Knowingly or not we are all on the journey. Rather than fight it we need to embrace and welcome it. The rewards are great.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595403492
• ISBN13: 9780595403493
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I loved Russell's book and it had a wonderfully positive impact on me!

In "Our Journey is Our Work" Russell Shippee shares his own revealing wake up call which may cause you to have the most important awakening of your life! This is an important book filled with bite size digestible nuggets of wisdom that can truly be life-transforming. Peggy McColl New York Times Best Selling Author of Your Destiny Switch [...]

Keep this book by your bedside

This is a charming and easy to read guide to sifting through all that "stuff" that we encounter in our everyday lives. Lots of thought-provoking ideas!

A fascinating book written by a fascinating individual.

If after reading this book, you aren't driven to evaluate your life and its purpose, then you have missed the core message of this book. It is a quick read filled with personal stories, insight, and thought provoking ideas that will leave you pondering your own personal state of affairs. An excellent read for anybody desirous of living their life in a more meaningful fashion.

Inspirational

Our Journey Is Our Work provides a wonderful understanding of how to reconcile the complicated and often confusing world of our secular life with our need to connect to a more meaningful spiritual life. The message that resonated over and over with me is that our fears and limitations are largely self-imposed and that our inner self, our "spiritual self", will provide answers to a better path if we only take time to listen. I found that the author provides a compelling yet compassionate perspective on how to travel this path.