What if you get hit by a bus?
No one wants to think about their demise. However, if it comes sooner than expected, you must, at the very least, have your essential estate planning covered. Otherwise, you could leave a world of hurt, pain, and anguish in your wake.
No Brain Cramps
Many don’t have the essentials covered because of brain cramps. That’s a term an old coach of mine used when one of us offensive linemen became “paralyzed” by too much information, usually after the quarterback called an audible.
A brain cramp resulted in you standing there looking stupid as the play unfolded around you. With estate planning, a brain cramp could result in more serious consequences. Money may be needlessly wasted. Assets could go where you don’t want them to go. Your last wishes may not be fulfilled.
It’s easy to get a brain cramp from estate planning. There is a ton of information out there, multiple ways to accomplish the same thing, and each state has its own rules! I wrote the Bus List with this information overload in mind.
Your Bus List has 3 sections: Body, Brains, and Bling. Each concludes with a Next Steps Checklist, making it easy to complete.
Get in the habit of storing your Bus List in its chosen location as you write it. Protect it by taking appropriate security measures. Give some thought as to where you want to store your Bus List and what form it will take:
- Handwritten on a piece of paper
- In a notebook stored in your fireproof safe
- On a password-protected/encrypted file on your hard drive
- At a secure website in the cloud
If something unexpected happens to you (like getting hit by a bus), where does that leave your loved ones? You’ve got to take care of the “big stuff” now. Estate planning is best done when it is not an emergency. If it’s urgent, you’ve waited too long.
Write your Bus List today. The Bus List is book 4 of my 4-book series Becoming Financially Independent. Purchase the ebook or paperback.
