Your Essential Planning Timeline
You don’t need to plan for everything today. You need to start. This timeline breaks end-of-life planning into pieces small enough to actually finish - this week, this month, this year - and hands the rest to the people who’ll need it, in plain language, with nothing left for them to guess.
It’s a fillable A4 PDF. Type directly into it on your computer, or print it and fill it in by hand. Either way, it’s built to be marked up, not just read.
What’s included:
- For You - four timeframes (Start Today, This Month, Within 3 Months, This Year), each with a checkbox, a time estimate, and a notes column so you can jot down names, account numbers, or anything else you’d otherwise forget
- Essential markers flagging the handful of tasks in each section that genuinely shouldn’t wait
- For the People Who Love You - a separate, print-on-its-own section covering what to do in a medical emergency and what to do in the hours, days, and months after a death
- A Key Contacts page - one place to record the names that get asked for first: emergency contact, doctor, attorney, executor, and more
Print the second half and put it somewhere obvious - not somewhere safe, somewhere they’ll actually find it.
This timeline is a starting point, not a substitute for legal advice. Requirements for wills, healthcare directives, and power of attorney vary by state and country.