The Life-Ready Workbook

The Life-Ready Workbook is a practical, step-by-step guide for adults who want to get organized before a crisis creates confusion. With a clear, instructional approach, Grace D. Harlan helps readers build a complete planning system for money, documents, trusts, account access, and end-of-life wishes. The workbook shows how to gather the information loved ones will need, how to record it in a usable way, and how to think through responsibilities at different stages of adulthood. Readers are guided to create a master inventory of accounts, debts, contacts, and instructions, while also considering who should know what and when. Designed to reduce scrambling, delay, and guesswork, this book makes life-ready planning feel manageable instead of overwhelming. It is especially useful for anyone who wants to protect family members from avoidable stress and ensure that important decisions can be handled quickly, confidently, and with less uncertainty when it matters most.