Up and to the Right: Redefining Success Beyond Worldly Metrics

By Russell Verhey

What if the graph of your life was never supposed to point straight up?

Up and To the Right shatters the success myth sold at every leadership conference, productivity app, and highlight reel - the relentless upward trajectory that quietly shames us for every valley we stumble into. We've been handed a scoreboard that was never designed to measure what actually matters. And most of us are exhausted from trying to win a game that can't be won.

Born from the raw, unfiltered Friday-morning conversations of the Mission Men - businessmen, tradesmen, fathers, and Christ-followers navigating real life together - this book weaves vulnerable personal testimony with deep, ancient biblical wisdom to fundamentally reframe what a well-lived life looks like. These aren't polished testimonies from a stage. They're the 3 AM confessions of men who lost businesses, endured divorces, faced diagnoses, and walked through spiritual droughts - and came out the other side with something far more valuable than success: clarity about what success actually is.

Drawing from the raw honesty of Ecclesiastes, the hard-won lessons of Joshua, and the valley cries of the Psalms, Up and To the Right reveals that God's definition of success looks nothing like the world's scoreboard. True growth isn't linear. It's a recurring cycle of death and resurrection - painful, disorienting, and ultimately transformative.

If you've ever checked every box and still felt empty, or watched your carefully built life collapse around you, this book was written for you. The valley isn't a detour from God's plan. It might be the plan itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H58HKVFK
• ISBN13: 9798181455061
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"