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Do You Know Who Is In the Old Family Photos?
Why was the Picture Worth Taking?
Too often we have the old family photos but do not know why the picture was taken or who the people in the photos are. But those photos have reasons for their existence and valuable stories that can inspire us today. Through the Legacy Message, the pictures and personal mementos left behind can be understood and become fare more valuable and enduring than the gift of cash or securities bequeathed in an estate plan.
A Legacy Message - An element of a Well Prepared Estate Plan
Your Legacy Message™ is an element of a well organized and communicated estate plan that benefits your beneficiaries, explains your charitable intent, and provides important insight and instructions to trustees, executors, and beneficiaries. Too many personal possessions are discarded as valueless when they actually had great value, but no one knew the story. The Legacy Message provides details about the intentions and concerns of the provisions in the estate plan and the reasons for the gifts indicated in the estate plan.
The Legacy Message™ complements your estate documents (Last Will & Testament. Medical POA, and your Trust). Through a Legacy Message™, business owners protect the continuity of the business and the retention of employees by sharing their vision for the future growth and potential outcomes of the enterprises they have created. A Legacy Message™ is valuable to large estates as it can reduce settlement costs, disputes, and family acrimony. It is also valuable to smaller estates because there is more to your wealth than just the stuff you leave behind. Your voice, values, and vision have value too. Your Legacy Message can be your most cherished gift to those you love and be an inspiration to those who work in the same company or career .
There Is More to Your Estate Than Just The Stuff Left Behind™
Life-Legacy Services provides our L.E.A.D Review and Organization Process™ (Legacy, Estate and Directives) to help organize, update, and craft your estate plan so that these documents transfer both your property and your values to the next generation.
The Legacy Message™ complements your legacy plans and business succession plans. The Legacy Message™ preserves family history. With the passing of each generation, a part of the family story is lost. The family story is needed to preserve the family identity and unity. It also provides a sense of identity and purpose to future generations, when they know the hope, sacrifices, and successes of past generations. Too many people do not know the family story. They are lost in the current events of life because they do not see the bigger picture that generational messages provide. You can give not just a valuable inheritance to the next generation, you can give the wisdom and experience of all the generations that have preceded you.
The Legacy Message Helps Family to Grieve and Continue
Death can occur so fast. Family members do not get the chance to truly say good bye. Your message gives that chance. Gives you the chance to share some favorite memories, offer positive advice, request forgiveness, and grant forgiveness. It gives you the chance to request prayers for your soul and encourage family to stay faithful to their faith. These messages allow you to share the stories of success and failure to encourage those you care about to grieve your loss but continue with their life, a life well lived by your final inspirational stories, vision, and advice. At the time of your death, you know that the final messages will be given. Nothing good is left unsaid or lost. Your voice, values, and vision for the future continue to inspire.
Your Creative Ideas and Vision Continue
In the cemetery too often, there is more buried than just the body of the deceased. The unwritten books, the songs that were never shared, the ideas for inventions, the professional knowledge of the unique individual is also buried and lost. The Legacy Message allows a person to share their ideas, to archive their incomplete thoughts so that others may follow in their footsteps. Imagine sharing everything you have learned from your many years in a specific profession with all those who will choose that profession as their occupation in the future. The Legacy Message preserves your ideas and wisdom for future generations to inspire them to pursue your unfinished work. Some clients have us post their video on YouTube, others want to keep it private. The delivery method of The Legacy Message is up to you.
What is a Legacy Message™
A Legacy Message is a message of Love, Appreciation, and Advice that you leave behind for loved ones and future generations. It can be a letter, an audio recording or a video recording. It can be referenced as part of your estate planning documents or a separate arrangement. It is a message or series fof messages created to help in mourning, provide an ongoing impact, or communicate specific ideas to specific people after your death.
The Benefits of The Legacy Message™
The benefits of a Legacy Message. The message offers many benefits because you never know if you will make it home today. How do you want to be remembered? What do you want to make sure that loved ones remember about you ? You can make sure that the last conversation they have with you is one of love, appreciation, and advice. A message of forgiveness and joy.
Last Few Breaths in This World™
There will come a time when each person comes to their last few breaths in life. When we must let go of this world and embrace the next. What will you think about? A Legacy Message protects your vision, values, and voice in the World. You will be able to leave the messages of love, appreciation, and advice to inspire future generations. Your Legacy will be told by you for the benefit of future generations. You will know that in your last few breaths, your family will receive a positive message that will help them mourn and thrive. Is there a greater gift to leave to those you care about ? Your voice will not die with you.
The Importance of Estate Planning
Proper Estate Planning is not about you. It is about caring for those you love and have responsibility to. You do not want to leave a mess behind that will cost money and adversely impact family relationships..
We provide articles and video that offer guidance in crafting your estate planning, share information regarding probate process, and encourage you to have your estate in good order. You may be afraid to die, but you do not have to be afraid that your estate will be a mess and family will not be taken care of.
A Sample Legacy Message™
I created the Legacy Message™ because I have lost loved ones in my life. Besides losing them, I also lost their voice, their stories, and the opportunity to continue to hear their inspirational words. The Stories of my life and my family are worth sharing. I want my great grandchildren to know me and the family that they are part. (Used with permission)
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