Is your will in order? Have you chosen guardians for your children. If you died today, would you leave behind a sense of the real you. My Living Legacy is the answer to the best gift to yourself ever and to loved ones and friends. This book is a template to guide you in leaving your Legacy to loved ones, friends and family. Filling in the pages is a labor of love, and it is the most important book you will ever write. Yes, and in your handwriting. I came upon this project out of pain and grief, but mostly out of necessity. My mother planned on living forever, it seemed, and then a wild card took us by surprise, and in a matter of weeks, she was gone. In a bedroom drawer, I discovered a simpler version of this book, one that I had given her three years earlier. The pages were a blank, pristine white, like clean sheets on a freshly made bed, unmarred by a restless sleeper. It lay empty, much like our bodies do without a spirit. I could only imagine what secrets had never been written, what wishes had never been shared. I was left in the wake of my mother's death to struggle with my brothers over details and deadlines, caught between fairness and futility. Nothing in this world truly belongs to us; rather we are entrusted as caretakers, shepherds in the field of life. My hope is that the anguish of others will be diminished using this journal. So, I encourage you to take the time to fill this out, while the sun is still high in the sky. Leave a legacy to comfort your loved ones in the days and weeks after your death. On these pages, you can provide answers to the many questions that remain once you are gone. You can make sure you will not be forgotten. My Living Legacy is your living legacy... forever. Please leave it by your bedside, write in it as you would a journal and in your handwriting, leaving your wishes, your love notes, concerns, issues, joy, memories and moments that will be everlasting for years to come.
About the Author: In 2013 Pancreatic Cancer took Susan Fielder's much-loved husband Dan Mears. Years earlier her mother, Guynelle passed suddenly and during that same year, a little girl, named Jennifer, who was Susan's own daughter, lost her battle with Leukemia. Most would understand if Susan curled up in a ball, wrapped in grief. But, that is not the Susan Fielder way. Instead, Susan's initial thought was "how can I help other people knowing what I know now." Your Living Legacy is the result. A musician/song writer, artist, poet, designer, writer, and highly successful business woman, Susan is courageous, innovative, creative, energetic and committed. A walk through her world is an exciting journey revealing a passionate woman inspired by art and sustained by her empathy for others. Susan designed My Living Legacy as an easy to use guidebook to create a personal journal to guide loved ones in making essential, often difficult, decisions. It is her hope "that the anguish of others will be diminished through the use of this journal." Susan believes, "If you don't write it down, it won't get passed down." Susan Fielder is the Founder of Susan Fielder & Associates, Inc., a sales promotion/marketing consultancy in San Diego. She served on the Board of Directors for the UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, is a past judge for The Finest Service Awards for the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, a graduate of San Diego's LEAD program, past member of the Women Presidents' Organization and a winner of the San Diego Business Journal's Woman of the Year Marketing Award as well as Woman of the Year for the Leukemia Society. But, all these accomplishments take a back seat to her devotion to supporting the treatment and cure of Pancreatic Cancer, which takes over 50,000 lives a year. Her passion guided her to create a new venture called iPlaid (standing for Intuitive Passion Launches an Inner Discovery). She invites you to join her on her quest by viewing her websites www.susanfielderart.com and www.iplaid.org and www.shopvida and search for Susan Fielder, where a portion of all sales go to generate revenue for pancreatic cancer researchers who are on the path to a cure. Susan welcomes any suggestions and ideas to make a difference.