I’m pretty sure I’ve told this story before. Honestly, it probably won’t be the last time either. It’s one of those stories that makes my spine go cold and my reality melt into fate. It was one of the defining moments that pushed me into coaching. It was a solitary moment, gifted from the Universe to reveal my path.
Two and a half years ago I hired a life coach. We became friends through the process of coaching and she invited me to go to an Edwin McCain concert. I enjoyed his music so I bundled up on a chilly night and headed downtown. He sang with such passion on that cold night. I was seated literally in the last row and there were people standing in the aisles.
His last song was not actually one of his own. He gave a brief explanation of some other artists who inspired him and said he’d chosen to sing a SEAL song as his last song of the evening. That song was called Crazy…and it moved me. We were in a little rundown theater full of character and his words reached all the way to the last row and into my spirit. My coach leaned over at the end of the song and said, “that would be a great song to use in coaching!” I agreed.
When I got home, I looked up the lyrics to that song. The verse that really hits me goes like this:
Crazy, by SEAL
In a world full of people there’s only some want to fly
Isn’t that crazy?
But we’re never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy
At that point in my life, I felt crazy. I was leaving a perfectly good position as a graphic designer – something I had a talent for – to get into life coaching. With no prior experience, no business experience and only one college class of psychology under my belt. Now, I was enrolled in a coaching program and studying hard at night, while I worked full time days. Still, I was nervous, but really felt, down in the core of my being that I was still in line. My life fit this path. I couldn’t completely explain why or how, but I knew it.
Two weeks after that Edwin McCain concert, I had committed to quitting my job so I could pursue coaching. I even set the day I would do it. That morning, I walked into the office, barely looked anyone in the eye and went to my desk. As I settled in, one of my co-workers came over and nonchalantly handed me a CD. He said, “I got this the other day think you’d really like it. Check it out.” I popped it in and that’s when my spine went cold and my reality melted into fate. Track 1 was flowing forth from my computer singing “in a world full of people…there’s only some want to fly…isn’t that a little bit crazy?”
I knew then that the Universe was giving me the extra little bit of courage I needed to move forward. This was my path. I was meant to do this work. It felt crazy, but staying put felt crazier. My point is that life doesn’t always make sense. Your next steps may make you feel crazy and others might truly believe you are crazy. But, sometimes it’s just a feeling that we can’t explain. We just know that we have to try our hand and if we fail, that’s okay – we will pick ourselves up and try again, or try something else. But we have to try.
Go after what you want. Listen to your intuition. It will never fail you. Your head may if you think too much, but your intuition is amazingly accurate. Fear is normal. Feel it, but do not succumb to it. Life has many paths to a destined future – are you willing to ramble down some of them?
We’re never going to survive unless we get a little bit crazy.
~ Coach Katie
Life Coach Katie Mattson • www.EnergizeYourMoment.com
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