Make Your Mark. Warrell Margie

primary goal for this book is to guide you on a journey to chart your bravest course to your biggest life. To do that, you'll need to be really honest about what you most want and what's kept you from having it already – or having more of it!

      That in itself will take courage. To pause from the busyness of your doing and to spend more time simply being. To step beyond the shallows and dive deep into the still waters so seldom entered. To embrace your vulnerability and interrogate your reality. To park your cynicism, confront your fears and see yourself as a leader with an invaluable mark to make – both on the people you care about most and those you may never get to meet.

      BUT LET'S FACE IT, WE HUMANS ARE WIZARDS WHEN IT COMES TO DISTRACTING OURSELVES FROM THE REAL WORK OF THINKING HARD ABOUT LIVING WELL.

      We hurry through our days, from one activity to the next, juggling balls, spinning plates and bending ourselves inside out to measure up or avoid missing out. All the while we never quite get around to getting real about our inner lives or, to quote industrialist John W Gardner, ‘to probe the fearful and wonderful world within'.

      It's my hope that this book will help you to probe the ‘fearful and wonderful world within' so that you can avoid the barrenness of a busy life and relish the richness of a brave one.

      I must warn you, though. The journey ahead won't always be comfortable. Then again, having spent so much of my adult life feeling decidedly uncomfortable, I know that no worthwhile endeavour ever is.

      WHAT I'VE LEARNED SINCE GROWING UP ON A FARM WITH A VISION THAT EXTENDED LITTLE BEYOND THE BACK PADDOCK, IS THAT OUR LIVES ARE AS BIG AS WE DARE TO MAKE THEM.

      It's why you cannot afford to wait until ‘one day' before you make time to create the highest vision for your life. One day, when your kids are older. One day, when the economy's better. One day, when the mortgage is paid. One day, when you've lost your doubt or ‘found yourself' and finally feel like you've grown up.

      There is no ‘one day'. There is only ‘this day'. Today.