A family needs to recount its history

A family needs to recount its history. The preparation of a family mission statement affords a family an opportunity to tell its family stories. Family stories are the glue that binds together individual family members.

— from Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue) · Family Wealth: Keeping It In the Family: How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Hu

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There are things you do. Tell the stories before it's too late. Share your family's stories — the twists and turns that made you who you are — because those stories are the glue that binds individual people into a family. Do it now; don't wait. […] Raise children who teach others. Your children are your legacy, and a legacy that teaches itself forward is perpetual. Tell the family story, and tell it often. It is the glue, and it gives the young the ground to stand on. Aim at a good name, not a big name. The metric is the people you touched, not the dollars you stacked. — Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)

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