This book was written to help you think about your purpose in life - the direction that's likely to give you the greatest satisfaction, sense of accomplishment, and pride - and guide you through the process of starting down that path. Our most important responsibility is deciding what to do with our lives. We have an obligation to live lives that are meaningful, to do more than just survive. Writer and humorist Leo Rosten (1909-1997) put it this way: "I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."