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A Unique Estate Planning Idea: How to Write Your Memoir

Do you sometimes feel like your life isn't valuable? Everyone does at one point or another. I've interviewed all kinds of impressive people about their legacies, and you know the most-common response I get? "My life isn't that interesting." Some of these people are at the top of their fields and doing incredible work in philanthropy. By all accounts they're extraordinary, but they don't always view themselves that way.

It seems that life has an insidious way of squeezing the uniqueness out of us. Between learning to blend in with the other students at school, jumping from career to career, paying off debts, relocating away from family and friends, and feeling like a failure when relationships or marriages don't work out, life can bruise even the best of us.

The truth is your life has great meaning - even if you don't think you've done anything inspiring. You don't need to be a celebrity or travel the world to be interesting. What you need is the

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