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Estate Planning For Foxes And Hedgehogs
ADHD, Estate Planning Matthew Erskine ADHD, Estate Planning Matthew Erskine

Estate Planning For Foxes And Hedgehogs

Most estate planners think like hedgehogs. They know everything about estate planning. That works well for most clients, but others need the more difficult help of a fox, especially entrepreneurs (and people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder).

In other words, clients who make impulsive, sub-optimal decisions, whose choices are guided by smaller, immediate rewards instead of larger, long-term ones, and who make such errors in their planning, organization, self-regulation, and prioritizing when choosing courses of action.

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Estate Planning For Foxes, Entrepreneurs And People With ADHD
ADHD, Entrepreneur, Small Business, Neurodiverse Matthew Erskine ADHD, Entrepreneur, Small Business, Neurodiverse Matthew Erskine

Estate Planning For Foxes, Entrepreneurs And People With ADHD

So, here are some helpful tips for you, if you are an entrepreneur or a person with ADHD and need to do some estate planning (or any type of decision making for that matter):

• Write it down: Writing your goal and your scenario down requires you to think through the process. Remember, if it is not in writing, it does not exist (at least as far as the probate court is concerned).

• Make snap decisions: In times of crisis, it is better to do something, even if it not the optimal thing, than to do nothing.

• Have a dictator: Find someone to whom you declare your goals and objectives. Give them the right to impose firm standards from the outside.

• Record what you have learned: When you do get something done, record it and learn from it, good or bad.

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