New Moon - Legacy Living  

- How Well Are You Living Your Life?

Dear Jennifer,

Today April 8th in North America is a Total Eclipse, where the Sun is overshadowed by the Moon as it comes between the Earth and the Sun. How cool is that! While the New Moon is about new beginnings, eclipsing the sun can symbolising renewals and revival. What do you wish to revive and renew in your life?

April 9th marks Day 100 of 2024. oHow have these first 100 days been for you?

Did you set a plan for your first quarter or your first 100 days for this year? If so, how did you do? If not, how about setting a plan for the next 100 days (to July 18th)?

If we consider that the last few weeks of December are usually caught up in Christmas celebrations, and in the Northern Hemisphere summertime is often a write off for achieving goals, plans, and targets, our schedule can be refined to 100 days to begin the year, 75 days for next stage of productivity, 60 days for enjoying the fruits of our hard work in the first half of the year, and then a final 100 days focus before the last few weeks to switch off and celebrate the year just gone. If we focus on managing our activities rather than thinking we can manage time, we can become clearer on what is possible for us to strive towards our goals.

For these 100 Days just complete:
Did you achieve your targets?
What were the highlights of these 100 days in work, in your daily living, for your family, for yourself?
What were the blocks?
What is yet to begin?

We are continuing our #100DayCampaign providing tips to help you take stock of your life lived to date, and get your plans in place, all to make space for your life yet to live, and your legacy yet to create. Join us on Instagram @livinglegacy.ie at #DeathLifeLegacy

This New Moonletter 

will look at The Wheel of Life (and Death!), and sharing some highlights from our #DeathLifeLegacy campaign that may help you consider your Legacy.

You can access our full newsletter below, or read different sections through Our Blog 

We invite you to share your feedback on these moon letters and ask you to let us know what elements of #successionplanning #endoflifeplanning and #legacybuilding you would like us to share. Please send us your thoughts and request to [email protected].

We appreciate your part in our community and look forward to helping you navigate the journey to a life well lived.

Jennifer McConnell (Founder)

We are now in full flow with our Death. Life. Legacy 100 Day Campaign.

Our post for Sunday 7th April was about Your Eulogy. When considering death we often fail to realise that it mirrors our life. How we will be spoken about when we have gone often gets forgotten in being acknowledge while we are still alive. We all know the positives mentioned about a person after they have passed, yet how often do we hear those words said to us while we still live? The New York Times, last year, had an article about writing a Living Eulogy to a loved one (New York Times Living Eulogy Article) How comfortable would you be to learn what will be said about you now? 

In taking stock of your life, why not write your own eulogy?

• When You Reflect On Your Life... - How Have You Lived?
• When Others Speak of You - What Do They Say?
• How Have You Made Your Mark?
• Write Out Your Eulogy To Help You Define How Your Life Has Been - not your regrets, but how you truly lived.
• Take Stock on All That You Have Achieved On WHO You Are - your values, your actions, the contribution you made to yours and others lives

How does this make you think about your life lived to date? How does it inspire you to consider your life yet to live?

Rather than hope others will speak fondly of you once you are gone, acknowledge your life, you as the person you are, and the life you have so far lived.

You Matter. So Make Sure You Matter First to Yourself

To follow our #DeathLifeLegacy campaign, and get other nuggets of wisdom, guidance, and tips to take stock on your life so far lived, and guidance to getting your advanced plans in place, follow us at Living Legacy Instagram

The Wheel of Life - What  Makes a Good Life and a Good Legacy?

In reflecting on your life and your death, how do you identify what is important to you?

In Coaching, there is an exercise called "The Wheel of Life" which invites participants to select 8 areas of their life that are priority. These differ per person but the key ones to get started can often be:

1. Health

2. Finance

3. Home

4. Family

5. Friends

6. Work

7. Social Life

8. Self-Care

I invite you to create your own wheel and divide into 8 with the key areas of importance for you. 

How Much of Your Estate will be Squandered?

A final tidbit of information - if you own property, have any kind of cash, belongings, heirlooms, or items to pass on to your loved ones - check out what you can do now to protect your loved ones from having to fork out a huge amount of money to pay the inheritance tax.

In Ireland there is the Section 72 insurance to help provide a cash sum to pay off inheritance tax. There are several other options (from gift inheritance to pensions, etc.) to become familiar with what your options are now. There is so much to be considered - so we now share an interesting article by our friends at Metis Ireland on Future Proofing your Estate - https://metisireland.ie/future-proofing-the-family-estate-planning-tips/

To help start your Advanced Planning, contact us today to book in your introductory free call, and find out more about how our services can help you get your plans in place and consider your life to build and your legacy yet to create. Book your call at https://www.livinglegacy.ie/

For now, Jennifer, we embrace this new moon and total eclipse, we wish you a joy filled and a brighter week ahead.

See you next at the Full Moon.

The Living Legacy Team