Why does quality, traditional planning alone not consistently achieve its goal of helping caring, credible families? Because working alone, balance cannot happen. Just as scales insist upon balance between two sides, so does one’s inheritance insist upon balance between finances and families. Thus, traditional planning, which focuses upon the finances, should be balanced with Family Legacy Planning, which focuses upon families. Clearly, balanced planning should increase the odds that succeeding generations can successfully immerse themselves in the foundation-forming stories and events of their forbearers, can embrace their forbearers’ core values, which percolate through their stories and experiences. Balanced planning should result in balancing families, balancing generations.

If your purpose is balancing your life for achieving personal significance for you and those you care about, consider J. W. von Goethe’s advice regarding the “Power of Commitment”:

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

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