Looking directly at Simon with the innocence of a child and the confidence and pride of a seasoned artist, she spoke:

“I’m going to sing I DREAMED A DREAM from LES MISERABLES.”

Simon rolled his eyes, flashed a doubtful glance and gave her the cue to get started. From the moment she belted out the first note, the audience was captivated. Simon’s smile spread across his face. Amanda covered her open mouth with both her hands in astonishment. Pier bit his lower lip, gulping in disbelief and together with the audience, dumbfounded and mesmerized, they all rose in unison with a standing ovation, cheering even before she completed her last note. Susan Boyle seemed unaware that in the next ten minutes her life would change forever. In ten minutes Susan Boyle had transformed herself into the singer she always knew she could be, and the world was eager to celebrate her stardom. Taking a bow, she strolled off stage, only to be prompted back to hear the results. Hearing that she received all three “Yes’s”, she threw her arms in the air, stomped her feet and in the most humble manner, thanked the audience and gracefully blew them a kiss.

Perhaps I wasn’t totally accurate on every word that was exchanged between Susan and Simon. But for sure, I am certain that in those few moments when the world had the unexpected pleasure and privilege to view her on national television, Susan Boyle catapulted to fame becoming the woman she was intended to be; evidence that the ordinary is extraordinary!

There is a Susan Boyle in each of us. There is that need to become what we are intended to be. It is true that if not for Britain’s Got Talent she may have gone her whole life unkissed, unmarried, and undiscovered. However, she had to have the belief she had a special gift, take the risk to make it happen and the rest was up to fate.
Not unlike Susan, we all need the same thing if we want to follow our bliss. Susan Boyle’s relationship with herself and having the faith that she could make it happen is something we must have if we are to make our dreams come true. Walt Disney manifested his creative ideas; most of which he heard were absurd and preposterous. Albert Einstein was relentless with his need to understand and develop the Theory of Relativity and Obama did it with a belief that change can occur; most of what many of us thought would never happen. Susan Boyle did it too. It took courage, faith and love of self, perhaps the most important relationship of all; to love oneself and to trust oneself. Not unlike Disney, Einstein and Obama and all the other dreamers living among us, Susan Boyle showed us once again that anything is possible.

I always tell my clients that when a person decides to commit, the universe will cooperate. Take the first step forward, and trust that the world will be the wind beneath your wings.