Making Your Mark | Leaving a Legacy | And then… A Grand Exit That’ll Have Their Tongues Waggin’ by Peter Davidson

SYNOPSIS:

If you want your life to amount to more than just anonymously passing through this world unnoticed, this book is for you. It describes how you can make your mark on your family, friends, and society and how you can create a legacy that will benefit future generations.

When the time comes for you to leave this world, you can go out with class, style, and pizzazz, just like you lived your life, There are many options, possibilities, and decisions involved in planning a final farewell as we will see as we watch the Grand Exit of Timothy A.B. Smythe. Timothy’s Grand Exit will have people’s tongues waggin’ for a long time and it can serve as an inspiration for your final farewell, when the time comes.

Much of the information in the book is presented in true stories, scenarios, and examples that are upbeat, often humorous, and fun to read.

AUTHOR BIO:

Author or Co-author of twenty-nine books published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Perigee/Putnam Publishers, Haworth Press, Sweet Memories Publishing, and others. My works include fiction, nonfiction, college textbooks, children's picture books, and training manuals for business and industry. I am also a songwriter and one of my songs was used in a television series in the Netherlands.

I created and presented three writer's seminars, "Peter Davidson's Writer's Seminar," "How to Write a Children's Picture Book," and "How to Get Your Book Published," in a 15-state area from Colorado to Illinois and Minnesota to Tennessee. For more than two decades, I was one of America's most active writer's seminar presenters, having presented 637 one-day seminars.

I have owned and operated small businesses, including a professional recording studio, was a real estate salesman, taught business courses at a community college, and trained over 700 real estate agents - something I will have to answer for on Judgment Day.

Whatever else I was doing throughout my life, I kept on writing.

MY REVIEW:

Making Your Mark | Leaving a Legacy | And then… A Grand Exit That’ll Have Their Tongues Waggin’ by Peter Davidson

Really enjoyed this read for many reasons.

Sheds light on such a dark subject. Author makes it fun to put in place things that will have others laughing and not crying at the services.

Author definitely made it fun and gives you specific ideas (even websites to achieve the goals) of what you can do to lighten the mood at the funeral, etc.

Everything you need to get ready is in this book in a nice format. How to collect information the next of kin will be left with along with hidden treasures.

We have done some planning, paying ahead of time and have a plan for how the others will deal with things, It's all written out with finances included but they can do it their way also.

We just want a simple celebration of life and this book explains what that can look like and about leaving a legacy of the things you have done in your life. They will talk about you and the word will spread, thus making you a legend.

I do have a binder I keep all my treasures in along with letters from others about my work for them. It’s things that many know about me and my charity work. .

There are some things I wrote in the obit for the funeral home calling siblings by their nicknames will bring a smile to so many.

Not going to wait for the word from the doctor, but start doing more things when spouse retires, we hope within a month, while we can still get around well and take our time.

Love scavenger hunt notes, I used to do this when babysitting, kids loved it.

Like the example of the passwords but ours are 20 characters long and no real words. When asked what my fathers middle is, it's NOT his real name but something like pencil. Something nobody would really know.

Like the ideas about how to use things in the house and get them to work when you're gone. Love list of contractors that will work on particular products in your house. Valuable information for everybody.

Enjoyed this book so much, can't wait to read more from this author.