Workbook
What You Leave Behind
The Things That Matter, Written Down While You Still Can
Your life is a story. Write the parts you want remembered before someone else decides what mattered.
For the person who has lived something worth passing on and has never had a structure for writing it down.
The Name It First Experience
Nobody wants to think about leaving. So most of us do not plan for it. This workbook helps you do the thing you have been avoiding: write down what matters. Through values clarification, story capture, knowledge documentation, and intentional legacy creation, you will leave behind not things but meaning. This is not morbid work. It is the most present work you can do. The output is not an estate document. It is the story of your life, written in your own hand while you are still here to get it right.
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Sample questions
- What is something about your life that you hope the people who come after you will understand — not just know, but actually understand?
- When you think about what has mattered most to you, what comes up first — and does that surprise you?
- What do you want to leave behind that has nothing to do with money or things?
Research basis
Legacy and generativity theory (Erikson): meaning-making through intergenerational transmission is developmental task of later life. Narrative medicine (Charon): stories carry meaning / documented narrative shapes meaning transmission. Mortality awareness research (Yalom): contemplating death increases meaning in living / legacy work intensifies this. Intergenerational transmission (Bowen): values and narratives transmit across generations / intentional transmission is more effective.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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