![]() We believe that career is amplified when you can see your contribution to making the world better. We hope that each of our descendants can dream up and chase their own goals knowing that happiness lies in every step, not in the end result. We believe that each person assigns meaning differently in their life and that freedom is the ability to pursue your own meaning markers. We believe that happiness is made from loving human connections and the pursuit of meaningful goals. We hope that our descendants value those things in that order and learn to pursue them with meaning and passion. We never stop learning to grow in those three tenets: love, health, and wealth. We have spent the majority of our time and energy in creating a legacy of love, health, and wealth for our children and their children to come. We take great pride in being the Morris family. We can’t heal our country’s identity crisis overnight but we can start by getting straight what makes us great, one family at a time. ![]() I hope you will enjoy our family mission statement below and I hope this inspires you to think about your own family values and virtues. It was easy to look at her and articulate all of the hopes and dreams my husband and I hope to facilitate for her and her siblings. But while the mechanics of writing this was difficult, the exercise was not. It is NOT easy to use a keyboard while nursing a baby which is why I haven’t written much as of late. One night I set up my laptop next to my nursing pillow to type this out. I have been spending most of my time nursing my infant daughter this fall. You have life lessons, experience, and values to pass on. You don’t have to have valuable assets to have wealth. It was important to them.Īnyone can do this. This must be why medieval families had family crests – they wanted to solidify what their family stood for. It felt like something I do want my children and their children to understand and perpetuate. To be honest, at a time when we hardly know what we stand for as a country, it felt empowering to write out what we stand for as a family. I pay these guys a lot of money to create my trust and estate planning. They linked to York’s TED talk as a little more motivation. I assume most people do? I would have skipped this exercise too had the authors not been my lawyers who asked me nicely to give it a try. ![]() When I read a book and it has a worksheet I usually skip it. It helps you to make decisions that are consistent with your values.It informs any trustees of the Why behind the How when they execute your wishes about your wealth.The book challenges you to write out those values to cement what your family stands for. You make these decisions from your value system. In planning your trust, you make decisions such as who will take custody of your children should something bad happen to you, who will manage your assets, how will you distribute those assets, etc. They argue that before you can pass down your assets, you must think about how you earned them and what the experience has taught you. (Full disclosure, they are my lawyers but I have no incentive to share their book other than Amazon affiliate sales.) David York and Andrew Howell define wealth as a combination of wisdom, values, life experiences, and the resulting assets. The authors are lawyers who teach estate planning. So it is fitting that I finished a book recently that forced me to think about what we stand for as a family and write out our family mission statement.Įntrusted: Building A Legacy That Lasts pushes its readers to think about wealth as more than money. There has been a lot of talk lately about what we stand for as a country, as a community, as individuals.
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