This book is a call to adventure, an opportunity to live life to the fullest and a guide to discovering your own path towards transformational leadership. When Mahatma Gandhi was asked by a reporter to sum up his life’s work, he responded simply, ‘My life is my message’. This book invites you on a journey to illuminate your life’s message to empower and align it with the legacy you want to leave behind. This journey will mentor you through the experiences of the CEO of Starbucks and southwest airlines who developed their leadership messages early in life, and community catalysts in Kenya and India whose sense of purpose propelled them to enhance the lives of those in poverty. Based on over 100 interviews with leaders from around the world who found their way to mission-driven lives, you are led on a path to determine your life's meaning along with the influence you hope to achieve. Beyond insights from the inspirational figures, this book provides a model and practical tools to prompt introspection and greater clarity about your desired life trajectory. While intended for emerging and accomplished leaders of businesses, organizations and communities, it rings true for anyone who is interested in finding the authentic and impactful leader within. Enter with curiosity and be inspired by the extraordinary stories of others. It’s a journey not to be taken lightly, but rather one that demands your full attention. You, and those you seek to influence, deserve no less. Excerpt: “You may be familiar with the quote ‘If not me, who, if not now, when?’ used by former US President Ronald Reagan, speaking of the need to step up and vote for his brand of national reform. The origin of this quote is actually from Rabbi Hillel in the 100th century BC, ‘If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am “I”? And if not now, when?’ Hillel’s admonition is closer to the potential this book holds for you. He suggests that if you are not going to stick up for yourself, love yourself, trust yourself, then who will? You and only you can be true to yourself. Indeed the person you have the deepest influence on is YOU! The latter half of the quote suggests that neither you nor the world can wait one second longer for you to embark on finding such clarity about your life’s meaning and calling. This is nothing less than a call to service—first to self—to elevate self, so that you can be of service to others and to the deity you revere.”