How Can Emotional Governance Enhance Your Legacy?
- Angelina Carleton

- Jul 29
- 6 min read
Updated: Aug 11
In 2025, planning your legacy needs to be more just conversations about the assets ... even if human nature first notices the numbers ... "the money". Businesses and advisors survive because of the numbers (i.e. "assets under management") and people feel a sense of a hierarchy by the piles of money they have - rarely speaking into what needs to go with building and maintaining these numbers in both skill sets or the emotional journey. So what is the emotional journey and where do we begin? Well, for starters, it's about values, relationships, and well-being. And yet, what is this phrase 'emotional governance' specific to managing your feelings, or emotional capital, in your relationships? The more you understand and develop your emotional governance ("EG"), the higher your awareness will be in decisions as well as your inner world. EG is also the key to making this legacy planning process holistic and effective in the short and long term.
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