…unfinished business… written by Lee Kravitz, published by Bloomsbury USA, 2010.

After you die, what would you like people to say about you? Your answer to that question should guide the way you live. -Lee Kravitz

What if your identity was completely wrapped up in your job and you lost that job today? What would you do? This book tells one man’s story.

Unfinished Business

In some ways, Lee Kravitz does not start out as a likable person. A self-proclaimed workaholic, he ignored his friends and neglected his family for years. It’s easy to question why should we be moved by his story.

However, life’s inspiration is not what happens to a person but how a person responds to what happens.

After some reflection at a yoga camp, Kravitz decides to take a year to deliberately right the wrongs in his life and commit to always do the right thing going forward. He reaches out to old friends he had lost touch with, visits a neglected family member, pays off an old debt and makes good on a promise. Through this journey, he also repairs his relationship with his children and his wife.

At times, the author spends a little too much time on philisophical questions which somewhat detracts from telling his story. It is helpful if we simply accept that as part of his struggle. The heart of the story does give us pause to question if there are wrongs in our own lives that we should address. Are there people to reconcile with? Are their debts we owe? Do we have fears standing in our own way? Is there unfinished business that we need to finish, before it’s too late?

At one point in the book a therapist explains that unfinished business saps our energy. If we can resolve the past and save that energy we can invest it in the present and lead fuller lives. Lee Kravitz evolved into that state of being. Learning that lesson alone is reason enough to read this book.

If you want to add this book to your library, buy it here on Amazon or here on MyUnfinishedBusiness.com. Note that the latter also includes a reader’s guide for book clubs.

Note: A copy of this book was provided at no cost to me by the publisher. In no other way did they attempt to influence the content of this review.