My Personal Planner: For Use with the Book, You Only Die Once

One day life ends, and though you don’t know when you’ll die, you can prepare yourself and your loved ones by creating a personalized end-of-life plan and do it right—and with the help of this lighthearted workbook, you might even enjoy the process!!

Written by ninety-two-year-old author and psychotherapist Margie Jenkins, who shares her own poignant and entertaining stories throughout, this guide assists you in personalizing your plan by providing checklists, easy-to-fill-out forms, and questions to consider.

By exploring your options now regarding medical procedures, burial details, and the like, you can make wiser decisions without the complications of frenzied emotional stress. Additionally, this planner inspires you to reflect on your memories and accomplishments, writing them down both for posterity’s sake and to motivate you to use whatever time you have left to keep pursuing a full and joyous life.

A companion to Jenkins’s You Only Die Once, this invaluable workbook helps you experience your life as a gift and goes on to bless your loved ones when your end finally arrives.

Margie Jenkins, author of You Only Die Once, is a licensed and highly respected Houston psychotherapist of over thirty years, as well as a much sought-after speaker on end-of-life planning who’s been interviewed on TV and radio around the country.

A volunteer therapist for Cancer Counseling Inc. (CCI) for more than two decades, she’s counseled numerous cancer patients and other terminally ill clients and their families as they walked through life’s final journey.

At the age of eighty-seven, she and her husband, Jenks, recorded their popular seminar, “Don’t Slam the Door on Your Way Out,” which was later produced as a DVD and CD. After retiring from counseling at age ninety-one, she became CEO of Patio Press and recently created and presented the six-session video series You Only Die Once.

Married for over sixty years, she and her husband have four children and four grandchildren.