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The Wealth of Your Life

A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will

by Susan B. Turnbull – Third Edition © 2012
Published by Benedict Press

Description

Susan Turnbull's book on creating ethical wills
The Wealth of Your Life
by Susan B. Turnbull

Author Susan Turnbull coined the phrase, “What you have learned is as valuable as what you have earned”® – a quote that beautifully highlights the importance of an ethical will. So often, people focus on their capital assets as they plan their estates – the things that they have – while they give little thought to passing on their ethical assets – the things that they have to come to know and believe. An ethical will is a device that can be used to pass on such intangible wealth. Turnbull defines it as: … a non-binding letter or recording created for your loved ones … with the intention of lasting beyond your lifetime, for the purpose of passing on values, wisdom, stories, wishes, feelings, advice or important information.

The Wealth of Your Life is a tastefully designed book, replete with artistic use of space on the page and of fonts and photographs that elicit reflection and inspiration. Pages are full-sized and held together in a firm, spiral-bound format, and the content provides a thorough framework to help the reader organize thoughts in a meaningful way.

An especially valuable primer for someone not already familiar with the concept of an ethical will but who has something significant to say

There is no single pre-defined format for an ethical will, and there are no hard-and-fast rules in putting one together. Given that freedom for individual expression, Turnbull does an excellent job of identifying questions and themes that an individual might consider in designing and completing an ethical will. She then suggests a generically useful 5-step development process, presented in a workbook format that includes many helpful cues, questions, and possible approaches. She also splashes in testimonials from others to give concrete examples from their ethical wills.

The Wealth of Your Life, at $23.95, comes with a fairly hefty price tag. The superior design and workability of the book, however, help justify the investment. The book would serve as an especially valuable primer for someone not already familiar with the concept of an ethical will but who has something significant to say. In this context, the book would make an excellent gift item for parents and other aging family members, friends, and colleagues who are growing into the reflective phase of life.

Availability

Paperback – ISBN 978-0-9770474-3-7 – 11″ wide x 8.3″ tall (spiral bound) – 36 pages – List Price $23.95

Individual copies of The Wealth of Your Life are available from Amazon and other online & independent booksellers.

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  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts –never to heaven go. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some irradiating word. –Alexander Smith, “Dreamthorp,” On the Writing of Essays
  • All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. –Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
  • Sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Words are like leaves and, where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. –Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
  • How many verses have I thrown into the fire because the one peculiar word, the wanted most, was irrecoverably lost. –Walter Savage Landor, Verses Why Burnt
  • “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your action. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. –Anonymous
  • Choice word and measured phrase… above the reach of ordinary men. –William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
  • Omit needless words. –William Strunk, Jr, The Elements of Style
  • In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. –The Common Gospel, “Eternal Word”
  • Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, and universal darkness buries all. –Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
  • Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can’t write, can surely review. –James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
  • Prête-moi ta plume pour écrire un mot. Lend me your pen to write a word. –Au Clair de la Lune
  • The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. –Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence
  • Word is a shadow of deed. –Democritus
  • Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. –Jim Henson, The Muppet Movie
  • Honeyed words like bees, gilded and sticky, with a little sting. –Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Pretty Words
  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. –Horace, Epistles
  • To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality. –Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traité Elémentaire de Chimie
  • A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. –John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words”
  • Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact. It is silence which isolates. –Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • And many a word, at random spoken, may soothe a wound or heart that’s broken. –Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles
  • So is a word better than a gift. –Apocrypha
  • Good words are worth much … and cost little. –George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
  • Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • How long a time lies in one little word! Such is the breath of kings. –Shakespeare, King Richard II
  • I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long Words Bother me. –Alan Alexander Milne, Willie-the-Pooh
  • The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work and that writing didn’t require any. –Russell Baker, Growing Up
  • In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. –Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous
  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. –Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review
  • The writer doesn’t want success ... The writer wants to leave a scratch on the wall of oblivion that someone a hundred or a thousand years later will see. Kilroy was here. –William Faulkner, Faulkner in the University
  • Man’s word is God in man. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Idylls of the King,” The Coming of Arthur

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