• Wishes for My Spouse/Significant Other

  • Wishes for My Children

  • Wishes for My Relatives

  • Wishes for My Friends & Colleagues

  • Wishes for My Pets

  • Requests for Funeral

  • Last Words

  • Journal and Reflections:

  • Letters

  • Apologies

  • Core Memories

  • Acknowledgments:

  • Acknowledgment

Things to gather and share - yes, a To-Do List :)

  • Personal Record

  • Social Status

  • Important Contacts

  • Important Documents

  • Medical Information

  • Assets and Finances:

  • Properties - titles, insurance, addresses, liens

  • Vehicles - with titles, insurance, registration

  • Financial Information

  • Credit Cards

  • Bank Information

  • Safe Deposit Boxes

  • Investments Information

  • Retirement Accounts

  • Insurance Information

  • Online Accounts and Devices:

  • Internet Accounts, Emails, Profiles...

  • Services to Close and Cancel

  • Electronic Devices Login

  • Pets

  • Wishes and Instructions:

  • Funeral Arrangements if already made

Book a consultation

  • Online Services and Subscriptions

  • Key Contacts

  • Who Can Help with Contact Information

  • Preventing Identity Theft

  • Legal Documents

  • End-of-Life Preferences

  • Funeral and Memorial Preferences

  • Body Preparation and Clothing

  • Funeral Cost Estimate

  • Desired Attendees

  • Obituary Details

28 Day Challenge

Week One

  • MONDAY

Do something you haven’t done before. Perhaps that’s checking out a new store. Maybe it’s turning down a road you’ve never been down. Maybe it’s playing a video game at an Arcade. If you have lots of ideas, well, use those instead of the prompts I made up.

  • TUESDAY

Let’s start small and easy. Stand on one foot for 30 seconds, balancing without holding on to something. Count down from 30 to zero. Switch. BONUS: A audio record yourself and see if you have any glitches in your voice as you counted down.

  • WEDNESDAY

Increase your mental skills with a game, a puzzle, a cross word, sudoko or matching memory game. Consider keeping up this routine.

  • THURSDAY

Go for a walk, but vary your route and switch up your speed periodically, wear a weighted vest if you have one and enjoy it! Start your walk with three deep clearing breaths.

  • FRIDAY

Reach out to someone you haven’t talked to in at least 2 weeks. Make a clear plan to see them or talk again within the month.

  • SATURDAY

    Find a tree and feel its bark - don’t just touch the bark, feel the bark, close your eyes and focus on it, and find 5 words to describe it out loud.

  • SUNDAY

Rub your finger along your forearm and imagine the nerve signal going to your brain. Be amazed by your body. You feel it in two places, on your finger, and on your arm. You can’t control how fast that signal moves, but you can focus on which one you feel the most, the finger or the arm. HOW COOL IS THAT?

So much of our day to day lives we live on auto-pilot. Honestly, while it’s an amazing feat that our brains do, it’s not actually good for us. So let’s get a bit defiant against the monotony and experience something different with intention for 28 days straight. These are in an order, you could do a bingo chart if you want, or a check list, or just follow along for four weeks.

Week Two

  • MONDAY

Ask someone about their favorite author. Ask what they like about their writing and story telling. Ask if they could read only one book for a year, what book it would be. Learn more about the person you asked by asking about what they liked or didn’t like. BONUS: Find the book and read it or listen to it. Plan to give them your review of the book.

  • TUESDAY

Go for a walk and pay attention for 5 things you haven’t noticed before. Use all your senses. It might not be some sound that is in the background that you typically might tune out. It might be a smell, and most likely you can find things but try for a variety of sensory things.

  • WEDNESDAY

Create something. Anything with intention. If it’s a doodle, doodle with intention. If it’s a circle of cheerios, make sure it’s a good circle, with the edges touching or being equally distant. If it’s ART - good on you!

  • THURSDAY

Step outside and look up at the sky (NOT THE SUN!). Hold on to something so you don’t fall over. Watch the clouds move, grow, shift. If it’s a clear sky, imagine the atmosphere that blocks out the black space beyond it, how it holds the light and reflects the color. Or look for the moon and imagine where the sun is comparatively in space. Feel your smallness.

  • FRIDAY

Try a new food. There are a ton of restaurants that offer a variety of ethnic foods, but perhaps your local has something on the menu you have never tried! Perhaps there’s some strange new food in the grocery store that you haven’t ever seen, or perhaps that starfruit has been calling your name for years!

  • SATURDAY

    Smell something. Like really smell it. The inside of the cereal box? Your hand soap? A store? Leaves on the ground? A couch pillow. Doen’t have to be fancy. Try to define the using fun words. Again, say them outlaid and laugh because you feel silly.

  • SUNDAY

Breathe in through you nose. Feel the temperature of the air with your nose. Breathe out and notice the air feels different!

Week Three

  • MONDAY

Find something you use everyday. Describe it out loud like you have never seen or used it before. After really examining and describing it, come up with 5 alternate uses for it.

  • TUESDAY

    Find a new word. You can use an app, AI, or a dictionary. However you find the new word, make sure it’s one you didn’t know before. BONUS: use it in a sentence later in the day.

  • WEDNESDAY

Look at a picture of yourself as a child. Try to imagine being that little person. Remember what they sounded like when they laughed. What made them laugh? Recognize that you are still that little person.

  • THURSDAY

Look around a room. What’s something a 5 year old would pick up and start playing with? Why would that be the thing? Do you agree?

  • FRIDAY

Try a new song. Find out what is on the radio.

  • SATURDAY

    Name 10 things for each category:

    • animals

    • foods

    • cities

    • BONUS with a friend: name 10 things for each letter of the alphabet.

  • SUNDAY

Brush your teeth with your non-dominant hands. It’s Sunday and your body may need a break, but your mind wants to play a game! Have some fun. BONUS - do lots of things with your non-dominant hand today. Even more intentional, start each walk with the non-dominant foot. Climb stairs starting with non-dominant step.

Week Four

  • MONDAY

Plan a day trip to somewhere nearby that you haven’t been. BONUS: plan some sensory experience while your there.

  • TUESDAY

Give away a possession to someone who would love and use it more than you do. Do it personally. Taking something to Goodwill is fine, but a better way is to tell the person why you thought of them, and ask permission to pass it off.

  • WEDNESDAY

Check out what trip advisor says about your town. Become a tourist and do something you haven’t done before that tourists would be advised to go and do.

  • THURSDAY

Volunteer. This can be something big - for a committee, for a day with Habitat for Humanity, to organize a group volunteer activity, etc. Or something little - like returning someone’s grocery cart to the store for them, paying their bus fare, watch your neighbors kids while they get some time to themselves…

  • FRIDAY

Create an experiment to try this weekend. Interpret the word experiment in whatever way means you form a guess/hypothesis, and you do something to determine if you’re right. Be kind.

  • SATURDAY

    Listen for 3 minutes - set a timer, it’s longer and shorter than you think. Listen for the farthest sound you can hear.

  • SUNDAY

Celebrate something that you think deserves celebrating but that no one else necessarily sees or knows that you did. Perhaps it’s this challenge, perhaps it’s something that made you feel good about how you show up in this wonderful world of ours.