Legacy After 60

Life and content continue to shift --- and I've had to reimagine this channel through a "transmedia lens" using Substack, Medium, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and the Website with YouTube as the anchor media channel
More to follow ---
TU ))smiles Stephen

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Legacy After 60

In support of "Lean Into Planning for Making Legacy Decisions!"
https://youtu.be/izTbFeZRfrw

What is Legacy Planning? (Mapping)
Live the Legacy You Want to Leave

This is a non-legal, non-financial professional point of view
Engage with professionals conversant in your location requirements

The Problem: Living Two Different Lives
You're busy building tomorrow while forgetting to live today. One hand steers your financial life toward allocations—budgets, investments, retirement accounts. The other reaches for what gives life meaning—family, community, individuality. This split creates a treadmill effect: running toward a carefully planned future that feels empty and unfulfilling.
Most people think of legacy as something that happens after death—the will, inheritance, or name on a building. This backward thinking prioritizes the outcome and overlooks the journey. The genuine fear is not of being forgotten. It’s being remembered for what is unimportant to you.

Crystal Clear: In my use of the word planning here, associated with
Financial
Legal
Estate
Wealth
Generational
Values
Artefacts
Remembrance
Community Network
Organization Operations
Sharing Products, Services, Experiences
__ is the intentional process of connecting your current actions with your desired future outcomes. It involves three core elements:
Clarity - Value what you want to achieve
Strategy - Select the path to get there
Action - Take concrete actions toward your outcome

In legacy and life design, planning becomes the bridge between your values and your daily decisions. While it's about creating documents or saving money—it's about making conscious decisions that align your resources (time, energy, relationships, finances) with what matters most to you.
Effective planning:
Starts with your "why" (values and purpose)
Maps out your "what" (resources and tools available)
Engages your "who" (the people affected by your decisions)
Creates systems “how_where & when” for ongoing review and adjustment

It requires:
Specific, measurable steps
Realistic timelines
Regular check-ins and adjustments
Commitment to action despite obstacles

In legacy work, planning ensures that the life you're living today is intentionally creating the story you want to be remembered for tomorrow.
It transforms abstract hopes into concrete realities through deliberate, values-driven decisions.
Bottom line: Planning is the practice of living on intention rather than by accident.

The Five Branches of Living Legacy
Life: Your daily decisions and how you spend your time and effort
Leadership: How you guide and influence others, and yourself as wiser and kinder
Legal: Your financial and estate planning decisions
Literacy: The values you live by and the stories you share, whether spoken or otherwise
Loverage: How love and wisdom shape your future, as your future informs your present

Five Common Blocks
Avoiding important conversations about values and future plans
Not writing down your values for others to understand
Missing legal documents like wills and estate plans
Unclear family roles and expectations
Generational conflicts about priorities and decisions

Five Simple Solutions
Hold regular family conversations about what matters most
Write a values letter explaining your beliefs and priorities
Meet with legal and financial professionals to align your documents
Define clear roles for each family member
Create a conflict resolution plan for difficult decisions

Your Action Path: From Intention to Engagement
Intention: Decide to live your legacy now
Action: Schedule 30 minutes this week to reflect on your core values
Strategy: Choose how to share your values with others
Action: Write one paragraph about what matters most to you
Tactics: Document and communicate your plan
Action: Book appointments with your lawyer and financial advisor
Opportunities: Think across generations
Action: Have one meaningful conversation with a family member about the future
Relevance: Keep your plan current and clear
Action: Review and update your values letter quarterly
Engagement: Involve those you care about
Action: Share your values letter with three important people in your life

Start Today: Simple Steps Forward
This week: Write down three values that guide your daily decisions
This month: Schedule meetings with your lawyer and financial advisor to review your estate plan
This quarter: Host a family gathering to discuss your values and future wishes
Ongoing: Live each day asking, "Does this action reflect what I want to be remembered for?"

The Bottom Line
Legacy isn't about perfection—it's about alignment. When your daily choices match your deepest values, you create a life worth living and a story worth sharing. Stop managing two separate lives and start living one integrated legacy.
Your legacy begins now, with your next decision. Make it count.
Remember: You don't build a legacy by accident. You live it on intention.

2 months ago | [YT] | 0

Legacy After 60

Of the three milestones for the Legacy Pathway, which topic requires more of our attention to help you move forward with your legacy? Closes June 25, 2025!

3 months ago | [YT] | 0

Legacy After 60

Update: June 2nd through 15th. The plan is to post 6 long videos explaining and describing the "essential" path stones you can lay along your Life Pathway as a 60+ adult outdoor educator (and champion of nature-inspired contributions and projects). With an evening publication schedule!

Jun 2 - Wellth and Movement _ _ rather than sharing about my business named WELLth Movement, it's about the importance of these two terms individually and together to highlight the stories of Hearth - Health - Wealth - Wellth - Willth
POSTED

Jun 4 - Living Legacy Life (LLL)__is about each term and weaving the three together to highlight the importance of "living the legacy you intend to leave"
POSTED

Jun 6 - Living Legacy Stories (LLS)__of the three major branches of LLL is stories (the others: contributions and projects); and through this programming, we highlight the importance of shaping and sharing legacy stories published through "prompt activity books" and/or "journals" of which I've published 7+
POSTED

Jun 9 - Living Legacy Outdoors (LLO)__of the various places and spaces to live your legacy and write your stories, I've chosen the outdoors, with nature and trees as muse, metaphor, self-care companions, living systems educators, and inspiration for every breath) [as reference: Living Legacy Grandparents; Living Legacy Travel; Living Legacy Homesteading; etc.]
POSTED

Jun 12 - Review "Legacent" - a mix of legacy and docent, highlighting personal agency and collaborative conversations about conservation
POSTED

Jun 14 - Review "Community Network" and "Agroforestry", in particular food forests (edible forests) as the focus of my legacy life-stories-outdoor involvement with an introduction to "Awarests: Awareness from Forest (trees)." And, I'll introduce you to Walter and Gafitallin!

Thank you for your likes and comments on the videos!
Enjoy your legacy path!

PS: I'll add a mix of Shorts as well ))smiles

Image: Track from the Path

3 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

Legacy After 60

Do Clean Water and Ancient Forests Matter More Than Ever?
This Question is of Profound Importance to Living Your Legacy Life, and let me add more qualifiers:
How have pure water, clean food, vibrant cultures, honored people, ancient forests, human health, equity, education, abundant fisheries, wildness, quiet green cities, rich soil, living wages, and dignified work influenced you?
Please comment below!
youtube.com/shorts/-MwAGKVgG1Y
LinkedIN Newsletter:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/experience-legacy-newslette…
#legacylife #legacylife #legacystory #legacycontributions #decisionstoday

5 months ago | [YT] | 0

Legacy After 60

As I walk with my YT Channel -- Living Legacy Life (Younger Older Elder), I will share observations about Legacy Videos - Podcasts -- posted on YTube. Why? Because it helps you appreciate the term and action-outcomes linked with Legacy! AND, it helps me to figure out the searchability of the terms linked with Legacy. More so, it helps me//you to figure out the keyword phrases//Questions you ask to learn-know-do legacy. That helps us ALL!

And so: A question for you:

6 months ago | [YT] | 0

Legacy After 60

Hi.. WELLcome - seems an update is in order!

I'm shuffling, shuffling (there may be a song here))smiles

My YT Internet approach
__ @YoungerOlderElder (this channel) will focus on linking Aging (Soloagaing and Grandaging) with Legacy via Legacy Decoded (what is legacy about with helping tips and tools) and Legacy Mastery (a 13-week in-person and online course).
*_* Think of this channel as a place to access Concepts and actions for living the legacy you intend to leave!

__‪@LivingLegacyOutdoors‬ (yes, a second channel) will focus on Legacy and Awareness from Forests as muse, metaphor, self-care companion, living systems educator, and inspiration for every breath as a pathway forward from the Legacy Platform (here YOE).
_*_ Think of this channel as support of Olders taking Actions from the concepts of Legacy Decoded and Legacy Mastery with a focus on Nature!

My personal story:
I seek to "create to fund" agroforestry projects and food forest projects around the world with the help of Olders and those they bring to the table because of their legacy efforts
By create, I mean:

(1) craft videos for your viewing pleasure and motivation to shape and share your legacy contributions, stories, and projects for whatever audience you determine important
With your help, we can determine what community structure is required to support you

(2) write in various formats, including publishing paperback books, eBooks, mini-books (pdf), and low-content books like journals [of which I've started already]
Amazon: www.amazon.ca/stores/Dr.-Stephen-Hobbs/author/B075…
Website: wellthmovement.com/store
_*_ Updating in the Community Posts on the two channels the books "we've" published

I'll share more through the videos to follow
Answer your questions
Appreciate your comments))smiles

PS—That means the last post needs some updating, which I'll do in a new post on Monday highlighting what's unfolding for the week ahead!
With an emphasis on YOE here!

8 months ago | [YT] | 1

Legacy After 60

As to my YT process with the help of "spreadsheets" for 2025
Posting 3 recorded videos + 1 live video -- Tues, Wed, Thur, Sat
Started formalizing "it" on the weekend - leaning into now -- the life of a transmedia content creator!
I write books in various formats!

Will upload recorded Tues and Thur videos - they are education videos about Living Legacy Life
Wed morning is a personal "update" type video (5-8 min) ((no edit)) and I upload a LinkedIn Newsletter as well!
Sat is live __ with guests and without guests; single and multiple topics; not to exceed 89 minutes
Will post here: "Community Posts on the Channel" with updates!
Will manage my own Newsletter for email list development starting First Week of February - will update you here_
ONwaord!

If you require a Legacy Mentor - I'm available!
If you have questions - ask by video re Comments __or here__

Image below is a Pinterest Pin highlighting 5 Shorts I'm producing
I'll update you here!

8 months ago | [YT] | 0