ITL205: Will Your Kids Remember the Important Things About You When You're Gone?
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question about the “treasure chest” that Polly and I have for our boys.
The boys know that we have treasure chests for them, and it’s something we will probably give them when they are around 21.
- The treasure chest has things that they will need to know or want to have.
- They don’t get to go in these chests, but I’ll occasionally show them something that’s going inside, or tease that something has been added.
When you have some kind of awesome family moment, take something from that place and write a note explaining what it is. Wrap it up and put it in a box.
- When you’re gone, instead of having a vague memory of that day, your kids will having something tangible—a treasure.
- There are very few things that I have of my parents, who passed within months of each other when I was young.
- I can picture my dad’s handwriting, but I don’t have any of it.
- It will be very important and comforting for the boys to know how much we loved them; the “treasures” make it obvious that we thought about them all the time.
Tune in to hear about some of the books, recordings, and other items we have already added—but don’t tell Austin or Adam!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, are you there? |
| 0:18.6 | I am here, David Loy. How are you doing? I'm doing very well today. |
| 0:23.1 | You know, I'm excited because I want to show you, I don't think I've sent you this picture yet, but a few episodes ago, let's see, I think it was episode 199. |
| 0:33.4 | We titled it How to Shape Your Environment to to achieve your best. And this was all about |
| 0:39.2 | surrounding yourself at your workplace, whether that's a home office or at your place of business, |
| 0:45.0 | at your desk, a cubicle, whatever, and being intentional with what you surrounded yourself |
| 0:50.1 | with. And we asked people to snap a picture if they you know had intentionally |
| 0:56.8 | designed their office see those pictures yes we got an amazing one from from our good a good friend |
| 1:04.0 | of the show Kathleen Thompson she's listened for a long time I've conversed with her a couple of |
| 1:08.8 | times but she is a dedicated listener to the podcast, has read all of your books, but she snapped a photo of her workspace, and it just meets what you were talking about. |
| 1:21.0 | You know, she recently moved from an office to a cubicle, which it doesn't sound like she was too thrilled with, but she has been |
| 1:29.8 | extremely intentional with what she surrounded herself with, some great quotes, a beautiful |
| 1:35.8 | picture, some of her favorite authors, you included, but she also includes some things from, |
| 1:40.9 | you know, John Gordon, Marcus Buckingham. She's got a Bible verse there. |
| 1:45.0 | But it was just great to see the way that she has been intentional. |
| 1:49.2 | Awesome. |
| 1:50.2 | You know, it's just, again, good to hear that the topics that we're covering are being heard |
| 1:55.8 | and making them a difference in people's lives. |
| 1:58.9 | That is great. |
| 1:59.9 | So if you've got a picture of your office, feel free to snap that and send it to us in the loop at |
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