Prepare with Purpose Course
Prepare with Purpose for your future and compile all the information your loved ones need. With this online course, we will walk you through the process of planning for you and your family, including:
(1) documenting personal information, dependent and pet care information; (2) determining your funeral plans and documenting benefits and insurance; (3) planning for medical care and determining your health care wishes; (4) collecting financial and legal documents; (5) organizing your property, mortgage, password, and key information; and (6) documenting genealogy and discussing important but sensitive topics of aging with your loved ones.
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Module 1: Personal Information
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Module 1 Introduction
Take the burden of decision-making off the table for your loved ones by planning and preparing ahead of time. Put your personal wishes and desires into an organized system. We’re giving you all the tools you need to reduce the confusion and stress that can occur with the death or disability of a loved one. You will leave a great gift of organized details, stories and memories for your loved ones.
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Documenting Personal Information
In this section, you will gather personal information so that everything is organized for your loved ones.
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Dependent Information
In this section, you will gather information about your dependents so that they are taken care of when you no longer can.
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Pet Care Information
In this section, you will document information about care for your beloved pets.
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Final Steps for Module 1
Now that you’ve filled out your worksheets, determine the next steps.
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Module 2: Funeral Plans, Benefits, & Insurance
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Life Event Planning Introduction
In this module, you will learn what information your family will need to conduct your funeral and finalize your affairs. We will walk you through how to communicate your funeral plans to your family, and you will document important benefit and insurance information.
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Choose an Executor
In this section, you will learn the duties of an executor and choose someone to carry out your final wishes.
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Legal Contacts & Documents
In this section, you will fill out important contacts for your legal affairs.
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Funeral Arrangements
In this section, we will walk you through planning for your funeral arrangements.
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Personal Gifts
In this section, we will help you plan who you wish to give special items to now, or later.
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Benefits
In this section, we will walk you through documenting your insurance and benefits for your family, including veteran and employment benefits.
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Final Steps for Module 2
Now that you’ve filled out your worksheets, determine the next steps.
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Module 3: Medical Information
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Medical Information
In this module, you will document your health care information, including information that will help your family make decisions about your health care when you are unable to.
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Doctors, Dentists, & Specialists
Document contact information for your doctors, dentist, and specialists.
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Prescriptions & Health Info
In this module, you will document your allergies, prescription information, health conditions for you and any dependents or family members you wish to document, and health history.
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Health and Accident Insurance
In this module, you will document any supplemental insurance you have. Include the contact information for your insurance agent and/or for your company’s HR department.
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Health Savings Accounts
Document any health savings accounts you and your family members own.
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Patient Information Consent Forms
Designate who you would like to be able to access your health information from your health providers.
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Final Steps for Module 3
Now that you’ve filled out your worksheets, determine the next steps.
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Module 4: Financial Information
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Module 4: Financial Information
In this module, you will document your financial assets and obligations using easy to read worksheets.
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Financial Contacts
With this worksheet, document your financial advisor, banker, accountant, and any other financial professionals whom you have contact with.
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Budget and Balance Sheet
With this worksheet, document your financial advisor, banker, accountant, and any other financial professionals whom you have contact with.
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Credit Cards & Loans
With this worksheet, document your credit cards, any loans that are outstanding, and any loans you have issued to others that are due to you.
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Final Steps for Module 4
Now that you’ve filled out your worksheets, determine the next steps.
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Module 5: Property, Mortgages, Keys, & Passwords
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Module 5: Property, Mortgages, Passwords, & Keys
In this module, you will organize important information about your physical property, and manage your passwords for future access by you and your loved ones.
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Primary Residence Information
With this worksheet, document your information regarding your primary property and any mortgages attached to it.
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Investment Properties
With this worksheet, document information regarding your investment properties.
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Timeshares
With this worksheet, document information regarding any timeshares you may participate in.
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Other Property
With this worksheet, document information regarding property you own such as automobiles, boats, trailers, farm equipment, campers, motorcycles, and antique vehicles.
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Insurance
With this worksheet, document information regarding property and vehicle insurance. Repeat the worksheet as needed.
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Warranties & Service Info
With this worksheet, document information regarding warranties on valuable items. Also, record contact information for key service professionals for your properties. Repeat the worksheet as needed.
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Collectibles, Jewelry and Other Assets
With this worksheet, document information regarding collectibles, jewelry, antiques, and other stored or loaned assets. Repeat the worksheet as needed.
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Keys, Passwords, Codes, & Numbers
With this worksheet, document information regarding important keys, passwords, codes and numbers to help organize access to your key accounts and properties.
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Final Steps for Module 5
Now that you’ve filled out your worksheets, determine the next steps.
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Module 6: Sensitive Topics of Aging, Genealogy
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Module 6: Sensitive Topics of Aging, Genealogy & History
In this module, we will walk you through the process of sharing important but sometimes difficult information with your family members, through worksheets that help guide your communication.
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Start with Your History
Start documenting your immediate family history with our easy to use worksheet.
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Next, Write Your Story
Write your story with our easy to use worksheet, and share your love legacy with your descendants.
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Personal Interests
Where we invest our time and energy says a lot about who we are. Remembering the organizations, charities, and businesses that you have been involved in are great memories to include in your legacy.
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Sensitive Topics of Aging
Sadly, as our health changes our mind becomes less clear, and our memory begins to dull and fail, and we may find it challenging to make decisions about things both everyday and monumental. Sometimes we just need help, but it can be difficult, first to make that determination and then to find the appropriate help in the moment. Why not prepare with purpose for the difficult changes in life?
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Share Your Legacy
Imagine the future without you in the picture. Ten years from now, twenty years from now...what needs to be shared with your loved ones? What memories are you holding that they may not know? Help someone feel remembered, celebrated and loved by your memories.
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Final Steps for Module 6
Now that you’ve filled out your worksheets, determine the next steps.
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Preparing with Purpose
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Take the burden of decision-making off the table for your loved ones by planning and preparing ahead of time. Put your personal wishes and desires into an organized system. We’re giving you all the tools you need to reduce the confusion and stress that can occur with the death or disability of a loved one. You will leave a great gift of organized details, stories and memories for your loved ones.
We’ll start you off easy, with the simple tasks of finding important documents and putting information on a page. So take a deep breath, grab a cup of coffee, and refer back to the "What to Gather Checklist" for your beginning steps.
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You get to decide how you want to leave your personal affairs in the case of an unexpected life event. Careful, thoughtful decisions can lead to long-term success and less stressful situations. But imprudent, uninformed decisions made in the heat of the moment can open the way to costly disaster. Which path do you want to take? Planning ahead is such a beautiful gift to give your loved ones.
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Why wait until a crisis occurs to locate important documents such as your vehicle titles, boat titles or even your mortgage? Can you imagine the ease of pulling up your information by simply going to your Preparing with Purpose document and within seconds your information is there! Be intentional with this module and you might save yourself and your loved ones thousands of dollars!
By tackling one area of Property Information at a time, you can handle this! Begin listing each of your vehicles, properties, recreational vehicles and any other property asset you own. Then start the search to find where the titles are and carefully examine the way they are registered.
Course FAQ
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Each module includes a video and instructions on how to fill out important worksheets. You may fill out the worksheets on your computer, or print them out and fill out by hand. Either way, our process walks you through documenting important information and making future decisions for you and your family.
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You can choose to purchase life-time access to all the modules in our Preparing with Purpose workshop, or to subscribe to our modules one month at a time. If you choose the life-time access option, your access will never run out! If you choose the monthly option, you will have access as long as you continue to pay the monthly subscription fee.