Day 190: When Something Inside You Says “Now”

In March of 2001, I sat in the first day of the first entrepreneurial seminar I had ever attended, after investing more money than I had to spend.

My eyes were opened.

I also realized I was in a world I had never been exposed to before.

In fact, it was a world I hadn't even dreamed of until about a month before I walked into that room.

It was all a very synchronistic story of how I ended up there after my car turned by itself to go see Mark Victor Hansen speak at a hotel ballroom the afternoon after he had spoken briefly at my church.

Having just come back to the US after about a decade in Mexico, before we had computers there, I didn't know who he was and may have heard a book called Chicken Soup for the Soul mentioned once.

And yet, my car made that turn and took me to the hotel instead of going home to watch football.

I still remember how strange that felt.

It wasn't logical, planned, or something I had been thinking about.

It was more like my body knew before my mind did.

In that room of hundreds of people, I had what I called a "Touched by an Angel" moment. Everything slowed down and all of a sudden it was like he was speaking directly to me from the stage.

He had taken a moment for a little aside and said he and his partner, Bob Proctor, were starting a mentoring program called The 3% Club.

It was called that because only 3% of people actually take action and create what they start out to do.

Their goal was to help 10,000 entrepreneurs become millionaires, if I remember correctly. My number may be off.

Then he simply said, "If you're interested in more info, see me after."

Very nebulous. I'd never had any interested in starting a business. Money wasn't a motivator for me, and I didn't know him or his partner.

And yet, something was screaming inside me. "This is it. He's the guy. You need to do this!"

I did get some info after and a few days later I got a call with the details.

It was crazy expensive. I told the woman on the phone I couldn't afford it but I wanted to do it.

She said another round would bring more people in 3 months later and maybe I could join then. This was the first round.

I told her I had to be in this one. And then I immediately wondered who had just said that?

I had been living off savings for a year after coming back to the US, waiting for a sign of what I was supposed to do with this new life after the cancer was over.

I can't explain how all this happened, and this is a story that is so much longer and so amazing in how it all played out.

But I've always trusted my intuition. And this was the loudest and most insistent it had ever been.

So I borrowed the money and I was in that first group.

A year later, I was one of the 3%, it really did work out that way, who had created a new business.

I was flying by the seat of my pants, learning as I went, mostly feeling like I was barely keeping my head above water. But I didn't let that stop me. I kept going.

I was being pulled by something bigger than my fear and discomfort.

At first I thought I was going to write a book. But it turned out that Change One Thing, Change Your Life was the first program I created and it's been my flagship program all these years.

I was very intimidated when I walked into that room of 500 people that first day and met all kind of really successful business owners.

I questioned if I was in over my head.

That was before I learned the best thing was to be the least knowledgeable person in the room instead of the smartest.

What made me remember this story right now was that I read a line this morning:

"Come , for all is now ready."

It said Jesus had said that.

And the point was the word now. Not tomorrow, next week or next year.

Nothing is missing. There's nothing you have to get ready for.

You're being called now.

That doesn't mean you feel prepared.

It sure doesn't mean you have the money figured out.

It doesn't mean the path is clear. It isn't.

It doesn't mean everyone around you will understand. Almost nobody will.

It means something in you recognizes the door. Even if you're trying not to see it because you're scared.

You wouldn't be called if it wasn't time. It doesn't matter that you can't see it.

You have to step out in faith to change your life. It's never going to be possible to see the entire path in front of you.

I didn't know who Mark was when he walked to the front of my church.

A month later he was changing my life, just like my intuition had told me.

The year after that I had created more programs, did my first weekend seminar and shortly after that I was speaking at Mark's Mega Marketing events.

I was already friends with most of the speakers and it had quickly become a world I felt very welcomed into.

In 2004 I created The Women's Business Empowerment Summit. The first multi-speaker, multi-day event specifically for soul based women authors, speakers, experts.

What if I had second guessed that voice in my head that said go, go to the hotel?

What if I had talked myself out of it as just being too expensive and not for me?

I would have missed the room and all those people who became friends.

I would have missed the work that was waiting for me.

And most importantly, I would have missed a version of myself I could not yet see.

I'm telling you this because sometimes the best thing for you is going to require you to go against what others call your best judgement.

Not everything meant for you shows up in a way that makes sense or is logical.

Sometimes, you have to listen when something inside you says, "Come , for all is now ready."

And trust yourself that you're more ready than you think.

Today's Gentle Practice

Think about an area of your life where something inside you has been saying, "now."

Not someday.

Not when everything is perfectly lined up.

Now.

Ask yourself:

What is the next honest step I would take if I trusted that inner knowing?

You don't have to see the whole path.

You don't have to explain it to everyone.

You don't have to feel completely ready.

Just notice the door in front of you.

And see if you can hold this truth today:

I wouldn't be called if it wasn't time.

With you,

Lynn