There are many advantages to starting to write your letter early in your life.

The first is can write about things as they happen or shortly after they happen. This will make your writing much more accurate and detailed. If you start when you are 20 years old, you can very clearly remember your childhood. If you start writing about your childhood when you are 75 years old, your memory will much less clear and may even be inaccurate.

When you start writing your life story early, you will actually begin to see what happens to you with a greater sense of time. You will recognize the truly important moments in your life as they are happening and experience them in greater detail because you thinking about how you are going to write them down.

And finally there is the very real possibility of memory loss due to age or dementia. The older you are when you start writing the less you are going to be able to remember. I knew one woman who’s life story would have been very inspiring and helpful to her family to read, but she started when she was too old and was unable to write enough or remember enough. Her story was lost. She passed away. Her story and her amazing life that was filled full of so many stories that I knew about were never written down and lost. I know there were dozens of stories and lessons learned that I never knew about that could have been shared and passed down to future generations.

Start early. Start today.