A leader is not a leader unless there are followers. Are you living your legacy? Legacy is commonly thought to be something you leave behind when you are gone. What if you were living your legacy now?

What if your vision for the future was evident in everything you do everyday? It can happen. Legacy leadership is not a leadership style; it's a life system. We live in an age of tolerance where protecting feelings is more highly valued than proclaiming the truth. People look with suspicious upon anyone who desires to influence others to embrace their beliefs.

I want to encourage you to buck popular opinion. As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, 'In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock'. I want to challenge you to become a dedicated student of leadership if you aren't already one. If you are, be a good leader and leave good legacy.

Because, 'leadership is the best means for leaving a lasting legacy' (Dr. John Maxwell). Becoming a good leader may not guarantee that you will be able to leave a spiritual legacy for future generations, but it certainly provides you with the greatest opportunity to do so.

The challenge of leadership is leaving a legacy. Grow the leaders of tomorrow today and live your legacy now. Legacy leadership is the wisdom of the ages structured and packaged for today's and tomorrow's leaders.

A leader's legacy is about making a positive difference in people's lives. Are our today's leaders making positive differences in people's lives? When our leaders subvert constitutional and due process to remove fellow elected leaders, is a leadership that can make a difference?

Can our today's leader be said to lead in such a way to leave legacy or positive impact? When you allow people to speculate and suspect your leadership's intentions on whether you will leave after your tenure or not, it leaves bad legacy.

Lead well and live well that your leadership will be remembered as being that which gave direction and made a difference in people's lives. To give leadership that subverts due process, disobeys court rulings, in the name of fighting corruption, it is done in a manner is seen as using leadership to fight those oppose to tenure extension, leaves a bad legacy.

The most important job of leaders is to model purpose, values and commitment to the people of an organisation and its associated stakeholders. To do so is to lift others up and serve them as they grow and develop to be the ultimate leaders that they can be and live out their true purpose for being here.

Leaders believe their job is to hold the vision and value as a shining light and to make the way for success for all involved. In so doing, they affirm their core values and create their vision.

Leaders believe in the basic good of the people, that they have potential and that they want to use their gifts and genius to further their life purpose while earning money. A leader's job is to equip and inspire people to develop similar beliefs about people; developing them fully, and fairly compensating them for their time, as they leave their own legacy.

Leaders believe that people are volunteers in organisations and that they choose to be there rather than being forced to do so. Consequently, leaders create an environment of collaboration and innovation where each person will be able to grow and reach significance personally and corporately.

Leaders ask people to fully participate rather than expect them to blindly follow. A leader's contribution is the most respectful use of human talent and allows individuals to innovate. Building teams with individuals of diverse strengths and perspectives is the means by which all have ownership of, commitment to and passion for the corporate goals.

Leaders believe that the workplace should be an environment where everyone engages their whole selves (thoughts, feelings and actions) to further the organisation's essential purpose based on respect for others and where differences are embraced for the unique perspectives that can be contributed.

Leaders believe that we are to develop others fully and bring out the best in each person. Leaders hold people accountable and responsible for reaching a level of excellence in the pursuit of established strategy and goals of an organisation.

Leaders recognise that our legacy is what we live everyday versus something we leave when we are gone. A leader's legacy is about making a positive difference in peoples' lives on a day to-day basis.

Leaders will mentor and model other leaders from a new learning perspective and hold others accountable in more effective ways.