The goal was to provide the adult children with a way to visually show their parents the type of decisions that would have to made if the bottom falls out. They simply told their parents they would “do their best” when things fell apart and gave them a copy of the mind map. These are the things we are going to have to decide with or without you they said. No scolding. No lecturing.

A few weeks later their parents brought up the mind map. They had some questions. It was a start.

We are all visual people. Check lists, brochures, and passionate pleas may fall on deaf ears. But a mind map lays out the interconnecting parts, a global view of the complexity that lies ahead. In essence, the When The Bottom Falls Out Mind Map ™ is the current marching orders until further notice. One way or another, it helps settle what really is going to happen…