Legacy Statement Example: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Try it here: draft three value lines of your own
Seeing a finished example helps. Draft three value lines of your own, in the same spirit.
What three values would your legacy statement name?
Practices that may help
- Write a values declaration as the core of your legacy letter
Name the two to four values you most want to have lived by — then write why they matter to you.
The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind - The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind
A legacy letter (also called an ethical will) is a written statement of the values, wisdom, and meaning you want to pass on — distinct from a legal will, which handles possessions. Rooted in the Viktor Frankl tradition of meaning-as-a-motivational-force, writing one clarifies what matters most and tends to align daily choices toward what you actually want to have stood for. The evidence is primarily clinical and observational, but the practice is well-established in end-of-life care and is increasingly used across adulthood. - Act today as the person your legacy letter describes
Use the values and commitments in your legacy letter as a daily touchstone for decisions.
The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind - Write the passages about what you are genuinely proud of
Acknowledge, without false modesty, the things you have done that were worth doing.
The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind - Carry forward the person’s legacy in your own life
Identify values, projects, or commitments the person cared about and carry them forward yourself.
Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical - Write your own eulogy first
Draft what you want said about your character at your funeral — then measure the gap against your life now.
The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character - Use the eulogy / future-self lens
Imagine how you’d want to be remembered to reveal the values you’d defend most.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Reflect on the legacy you are building
Considering how you wish to be remembered connects present actions to a meaning that extends beyond your lifespan.
Meaning-Centered Therapy, Made Practical - Cathedral thinking
Commit to projects whose benefits you will not live to see, as medieval builders committed to cathedrals.
The Good Ancestor: Long-Path Thinking for a Meaningful Life - Write the wisdom you have earned — for someone specific
Name what you now know that you wish you had known earlier, and write it for a person you love.
The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I want to pin down the few things I most want to have stood for when I look back at my whole life
- I’ve named what I want to stand for, but day to day I just drift along on autopilot and the gap between what I said matters and how I actually spend my time keeps widening
- When I look back I default to everything I regret and fell short on, and the genuinely good and hard-won things I did barely register
- I want their life to keep meaning something in the world, not just end
- If someone stood up at my funeral tomorrow and told the truth about how I actually treat people, I’m not sure I’d like what they’d have to say
Related concerns
- Legacy Letter Values
Name the two to four values you most want to have lived by — then write why they matter to you.
Write a values declaration as the core of your legacy letter
- Legacy Statement
A legacy letter (also called an ethical will) is a written statement of the values, wisdom, and meaning you want to pass on — distinct from a legal will, which handles possessions. Rooted in the Viktor Frankl tradition of meaning-as-a-motivational-force, writing one clarifies what matters most and tends to align daily choices toward what you actually want to have stood for. The evidence is primarily clinical and observational, but the practice is well-established in end-of-life care and is increasingly used across adulthood.
- Leaving A Legacy
A legacy letter (also called an ethical will) is a written statement of the values, wisdom, and meaning you want to pass on — distinct from a legal will, which handles possessions. Rooted in the Viktor Frankl tradition of meaning-as-a-motivational-force, writing one clarifies what matters most and tends to align daily choices toward what you actually want to have stood for. The evidence is primarily clinical and observational, but the practice is well-established in end-of-life care and is increasingly used across adulthood.
- Legacy And Meaning
Considering how you wish to be remembered connects present actions to a meaning that extends beyond your lifespan.
Reflect on the legacy you are building
- Legacy Letter Pride
Acknowledge, without false modesty, the things you have done that were worth doing.
Write the passages about what you are genuinely proud of
- Legacy Projects
Commit to projects whose benefits you will not live to see, as medieval builders committed to cathedrals.
Cathedral thinking
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