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Purposeful planning has grown over the last ten to twenty years.\u00a0 For me, our need for purposeful planning begins with a multi-decade survey that has found that of thousands of trust beneficiaries, about 80% of them feel that their inheritance has been a burden in their lives, 10% are undecided, and only around 10% feel their inheritance has been a blessing.<\/p>\n
What does it mean to be a burden?\u00a0 Inheritances can be a mental, emotional, physical, financial, or relational burden.\u00a0 Siblings may fight and not talk anymore, a child may relapse into addiction, waste their money, quit their job, or even not touch their inheritance because they do not want to feel that they are benefitting from Mom and Dad dying.\u00a0 The difficult part about burdens is that it can be so hard to identify which one, if any, will happen in the future.<\/p>\n
We know that estate planning documents are not the problem.\u00a0 How do we know?\u00a0 Because there are still estate planning attorneys; we have not been sued for malpractice out of a job.\u00a0 However, we also know the documents are not the solution because of the 80% burden rate.<\/p>\n
What does this mean?\u00a0 It means that while the money may successfully go from one generation to the next, there is an 80% chance that your children will feel that their lives were better before inheriting that money.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, there is light on the horizon.\u00a0 Studies have also shown that when children feel loved, trusted, appreciated, and grateful, these feelings can serve as antidotes to the issues accompanying inheritance.\u00a0 Purposeful planning uses many different exercises to help descendants feel these emotions.\u00a0 Some exercises include choosing a meaning name for a trust, explaining the parents’ purpose or motivation in creating a trust, giving a gift of life wisdom, or expressing love for children.<\/p>\n
Purposeful planning is a new way forward for estate planning.\u00a0 While estate planning is only concerned about legally passing on financial assets, purposeful planning builds upon and encapsulates the technical aspects of estate planning with a human-centered conversation between parents and their loved ones.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, a successful purposeful plan passes on wealth and values, expresses love, preserves memories and wisdom, and enriches and empowers lives down through generations.<\/p>\n
There is a wealth of activities, questions, and exercises that I use to help families to identify, record, and pass these aspects of life that are truly more important than money.<\/p>\n
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What is Purposeful Planning?<\/p>\n
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The Theory Behind Purposeful Planning<\/p>\n
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