I’ve had several personal experiences lately that have tried my faith in my business, and made me evaluate and actually use some of my own products. The one that I would like to share, is the recent passing of my dear father-in-law, and my ability to do a LIFE TRIBUTE for him. This was my first personal experience with death, so I wasn’t forewarned about how things would happen. He was not a man of many words, showed his love more with actions. He never took my urging to write his Ethical Will, so we don’t have many of his thoughts on life and what he’d like to see his children and grand children accomplish. In the end, what he did leave, was the legacy of his children. This was shown so beautifully at his funeral, and in everything that his children have done and continue to do. I have always wanted to personally try my Life Tribute books, would have definitely preferred another route….but nonetheless I was able to complete one for him. As his daughter in law, it really was the one thing that I could do for him, as he was self sufficient and the least demanding person you have ever met. I worked and worked and worked again at getting his book just right. I really wanted it to typify his life. I worked with the funeral home in AZ, collected the memories, transcribed the funeral, typed the memories, and designed the book…just like I would for any other client. However, with the element of personally knowing him, it was a bit more difficult to get it all right. After months and hours of looking at the computer, his book was finally finished. My mother in law gave it to all her children as their Christmas present. Obviously I had read and re-read the material, but I was still trying the product to see what effect it would really have. Of course there were initial tears when everyone was reading, and that’s to be expected. But many of the magical moments have come since its publishing. My husband, carefully read cover to cover one night. It was a special time for him to remember, for him to read what others had said about his dad. My daughter has read pages, and I’ve seen her in her quiet moments thinking and remembering. (She is just 8). My mother in law has praised the book, shown it off, made me feel good…but more, made me know that this product is really something valuable. Would anyone really ever listen to the CD of the funeral…I’m not sure how many actually will. But I know, because I’m able to know now, how many times this book has been read, and will be read by our family again and again, and even though he never left his own written legacy, he continues to be remembered in all the hearts that he touched.

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