Who Has Your Emergency Contact List? (If the Answer Is "No One," Start Here)

Quick test: if something happened to you right now — a fall, a health scare, anything sudden — could the people around you find your emergency contacts in under a minute?

Not your phone. Your phone might be locked, dead, or with you in the ambulance. A written, printed list, somewhere visible, that anyone in your house (or a neighbor, or a first responder) could find immediately.

Most people don't have one. Not because it's hard — because it's the kind of task that's easy to keep meaning to get to.

It's not just "in case of emergency"

A good emergency contact list does more than list next of kin. The version we use in Get Your Owls in a Row also asks:

- Who should be called beyond immediate family — close friends, neighbors, doctors?

- Is there a copy posted somewhere visible, like the fridge or a kitchen cabinet?

- Does a trusted neighbor have a copy, in case you're away from home when something happens?

- When was it last updated? (If the honest answer is "I don't remember," that's worth fixing today.)

Ten minutes, one page

This is genuinely one of the fastest worksheets to complete in the whole workbook — which is exactly why it's the first thing we recommend starting with. No research required, no decisions to agonize over, just information you already know, written down somewhere it can actually be found.

It's also a good way to find out if this workbook is right for you, without committing to anything. The full Home & Personal Organizing section — emergency contacts and seven other worksheets — is free to download.

[Get your free section here →](https://www.wiseowlnetwork.com/getting-your-owls-in-a-row)

Ten minutes from now, this could be one less thing to worry about.

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