Russell Shippee
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At age 21 he was the 4th generation to join the family insurance agency. Dreaming of his death at age 45 as an insurance agent convinced him there was more to life and it was time to find it and live it. After growing the business for 27 years he sold it at age 48.
Russell is a graduate of Bryant University, Harvard University OPM, and continues to take courses of interest. He is a sailor, skier, golfer and avid reader.
Giving back provides the most personal satisfaction. Russell was the president and capital campaign chair for the building of the Providence Ronald McDonald House. He was also a co chair of the final campaign for the Hasbro Children’s Hospital. He was also chair of the South County Hospital Capital Campaign building a new bed tower and expanding programs. In addition to fund raising Russell has also been a member of various boards including RI Hospital and South County Hospital.
Coaching those who want to ‘be the best you can be’ is rewarding and fulfilling. It is done without judgment, but instead with humor and persistence.
Russell and his wife, Cathy, have been married 49 years. Christopher, Erin, and Kathryn, their 3 children, are the center of their lives. They love to travel together when time allows, particularly enjoying St John in January for the past 30 years.
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What Course are YOU on?
What course are you on? Are you consciously on any course? Or, are you drifting and going wherever the tide, the winds, and the currents take you? If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know when you get there? Just like your life, a ship can change it’s course by one degree and end up on a different continent. Small changes in course result in huge changes over time. You don’t have to change the world in one day, nor do you have to become a new person in one day. But, you can make the most important change in course in an instant. You’re overweight.
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Be Uncomfortable
Be uncomfortable. To be comfortable is to be less than you are meant to be. To be uncomfortable is to stretch yourself to be the best you can be. It is to learn, to grow, to try new things, and to expand your horizons. Uncomfortable is another way of saying living your life to the fullest. When comfortable we are not growing or engaging fully in life. Yes, we need to be and should be comfortable. Comfort is a rest, a recharging of our spirit and our bodies. We all want a comfortable life of enough money, friends, a place to live, and things to do.
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Eulogy
What did you add to your eulogy today? This week? This month? This year? Yes, you are writing your eulogy every day. Writing it based on what you do and what you don’t do. It’s what is not done that upsets us the most. It’s the what we could have done, could have been, could have, had, had we made the effort, had we started, had we had the courage. Fear is the problem. Fear of failure. Fear of ridicule. Fear of making a mistake. In addition to writing your obituary, you should also write your eulogy. Who will speak? Family? Friends? Business associates? Someone you mentored?
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The Rules
It's me, Cameron. So, being less than two, I guess you expect me to write about the rules of the sandbox. Well, you are partly correct. The rules of the sandbox are no different than the rules of the game, and the rules of the game are about the game of life. We were all born knowing the rules of life. As little kids we know and live the rules most of the time. Sure, we get selfish, and sometimes we don't share but, after all, we are human. The fact that we all violate the rules at times does not mean we don't know the rules.
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Questions
What am I afraid of? Personally? Financially? ? In business? Family? Relationships? Remember, Ben Franklin said, A few of the things I worried about actually happened.” IF I was not afraid, what would I do? Personally? Financially? In business? Family? Relationships? What do I want? What am I trying to avoid? What is the elephant in the room? What's holding me back? What's the worst that can happen to me? Kids are fearless. I was a kid once. When and how did I lose my fearlessness? You already know the answers to the questions.
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Answers
You already have the answers. Remember the story of the farmer looking for gold? He sold his farm, traveled out west, mined the rivers for years and never found gold. Back home, at his old farm, the new owner found gold in the river that ran through the farm. You already know the answer. The answer is within. If you know the question, you know the answer. It may not be in your head, your head may give you misleading answers, but your heart knows. You heart knows the answer, and knows the right answer. Why do people avoid the answer their heart gives them?
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Aggressive
Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” Be aggressive, be all that you can be. If not aggressive, what? You miss all the shots you don't take, you have to engage to win, you have to engage to practice and learn. Whom do you admire? Someone who sits on the sidelines? Whom do you respect? Someone who never does anything? Who is fun to be with?
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Priorities
What are your priorities? Is it to survive the day? Is it to respond to whatever comes? Is it to do what others ask you to do? Bouncing from one item to another is exhausting and unfulfilling. Just doing what comes along leaves people feeling they accomplished little, if anything, at the end of the day. Do you want to accomplish something today and feel good about it, and yourself, at the end of the day? More is too much.
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The END
The end sounds final, ominous, and frightening to many. How about you? Are you ready for the end? Are you ready to accept the end? What will you do at the end? In all that we do, we should start with the end in mind. What is the end of this project, goal, or adventure? Only in focusing on the end, the accomplishment, the finished product, or the results, will we be able to chart the course necessary. We are like ships. We go from one port to another. The key is to know where you are going before you leave the dock.
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Regrets
Regrets? I have none. Like yourself, I came to earth to live life to the fullest, to learn, to grow, to share, and to enjoy the adventure. Do you remember that you did the same? What happened? When did you stop living life to the fullest? That must be the time you started with regrets. What you have done in the past is gone, and how you view it changes as you change. Sure, I have already done some things you might think I should regret. Well, I may be sorry, I might wish I hadn't done them; but I also know I learned from them, and they were of value.
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Bold
Be bold. I'm a kid and I'm bold. How about you? When did you stop being bold? What is the last truly bold thing you did? Here are some of the bold things I've done, so far: ??Learned to eat food . . . Learned to crawl . . . Learned to stand up . . . ?Learned to walk . . . Learned to talk You don't remember how hard it was to stand up or walk. It is bold and it takes time, effort, and a lot of falling down. But I did it, and you did it. It was non-optional behavior. Adults were doing it, and I was going to do it.
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Endless Tapes
Endless Tapes Kids don’t have endless tapes. We interact, we express ourselves, and then we forgive, forget, and move on. We do not clutter our minds and our energy with the negative. Adults have tapes, your endless tapes, are those stories you tell yourselves over and over again. Often, it has to do with a situation you constantly relive, and carry it forward in your mind and play it again and again. You relive the story and a future that you imagine. How often do you play your endless tapes in your mind?
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Russell Shippee
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." Sir Winston Churchill
"Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Do that which you fear and the death of the fear is certain."
Every day we are creating our obituary - the report card on our life. Let's create our ideal obituary, one that will be fulfilling and empowering, and then live our life from this day forward creating our ideal obituary. Know you are better than you think and know that you can live a life of meaning and purpose.
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