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Answer The Call

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There’s a nudge inside you.

At first, it’s like an echo or a faint whisper, and you’re not sure if it’s real or imagined.

Maybe it’s both.

There’s this unknown spot – where you feel like there’s great potential for… something.

And even though you don’t have a clue how it’s going to turn out, you somehow know it at least won’t be any worse than where you are right now.

In fact, it could be better. A LOT better.

It’s that moment when Alice starts following the rabbit.

When Harry takes Hagrid’s hand and leaves the Dursleys.

When Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

When Steve Jobs decided to take a calligraphy class.

And long before any of these folks changed their world, they changed themselves.

They made a decision to answer the call inside them to something…

…something more.

…something greater.

…something honest.

…something true.

…something that resonated within their spirit.

None of them knew what would happen – just that they needed a personal change of pace or scenery. And they believed – even if only for a moment – that what they were going after was going to be better for them than where they currently are.

For a long time, I’ve held a belief that we’ve grossly misinterpreted what Jesus was about in this world. One of the facets of that belief stems from a statement Jesus was purported to have made, wherein he says that we will be able to do all the things that Jesus himself could do, and even greater things than that.

It’s always fascinated me that we somehow have all this miraculous potential inside ourselves – to manipulate energy and make miracles happen – and yet most of us don’t have a clue how to do it, if it’s possible at all.

We just don’t know.

And yet, there’s a whole world of people pursuing alternative healing modalities – without drugs, doctors or invasive/chemical procedures. People who wield their own thoughts, fancy (or simple) meal plans, stones and more to shift the energy of themselves or others.

It’s quite fascinating, and yet no one knows with certainty whether any of it consistently works. It may work for some, sometimes.

But we just… don’t… KNOW.

And it’s something I’m keen to explore – and I know it sounds crazy. I’m blessed that my biggest health issue is my weight. I’m rarely sick, have pretty high energy levels most of the time and rarely take an asprin when I have a headache.

But there’s this part of my curiosita (curiosity, for those that don’t speak Italian) that won’t shake it loose. So I keep reading, and keep getting fascinated by the subject.

And it’s this curiosity that drives innovation in the world.

See, 200 years ago, people didn’t fly in planes – but daVinci had drafted this fancy plan for a flying machine a few hundred years before that.

Believe it or not, in the 1980′s Sir Richard Branson cracked an April Fool’s joke about creating a little “music box” to download your music digitally, years before Apple introduced the i-pod.

While I’ll probably keep playing around with healing energy for the remainder of my days (and may never get a concrete answer), I have other curiosities that drive me. I want to help entrepreneurs see what’s really going on in their work and lives. That’s why I launched the Real Results program – and gave people the ability to really name their own price.

And I want to do more than that.

When the new LisaRobbinYoung.com launches, the first project I’ve got planned is something so vital, and yet so unlike anything I’ve ever done before (at least in terms of the topic). It calls to me like nothing I’ve ever wanted to do before. It wakes me up at night, keeps me up some nights, and won’t let me work on other days.

So I have to answer this call, because I know that wherever it takes me, it’s got to be better than where I’m at right now.

What’s your idea? What’s calling you from the unknown into a place that feels better than where you are right now? When will you answer that call?

 

  • http://amyoscar.com Oscaramyr

    Lisa, I can feel the energy crackling off this post. It’s beautiful. I thought I’d answer your question. What calls to me from the unknown? I don’t know. But I feel it, a swelling of something rich and deep and big.Right now, I’m allowing the unfamiliar experience of sitting in-between and letting it come to me. Not easy but powerful. The less I try to form this thing, the wider and deeper it grows. Perhaps, there is no form to it at all. I don’t know. That’s where I am right now.

    • http://www.lisarobbinyoung.com Lisa Robbin Young

      Amy! Love this – and thank you for sharing it. Yes. This is how it always begins. I remember the first time this started happening to me in a palpable way. I tried explaining it to ElizabethPW, who promptly told me that the in-between place is a sucky, but necessary place to be – it’s where the good stuff starts happening. It’s where the dreams bubble up out of  the mantle of our soul, through the crust, and out to the surface, for first us, then everyone else to experience.

      I learned today that even the fastest lava flow is easily outrun on foot. Volcanoes are seen as mighty imposing things, and their hot lake of lava is capable of creating massive change in its wake. And yet it plods along in doing it. I’m sure there’s a blog post in there somewhere, but the idea is that even lava – thousands of years in the making – is in no hurry to get where it will eventually end up, and yet we either rush that time when we are most molten, or we dread the coming of it. Learning to, as you say “sit and let it come, without trying to form it” is a skill and an art.

      I’m glad I have you to lead by example. :-)

  • http://squarepegpeople.typepad.com/ Square-Peg Karen

    Love the discussion here, Lisa and Amy. I don’t have an answer yet to what, specifically, is “calling me from the unknown”, but I know I’m listening – and I looking for it – and I WILL answer that call; it’s so time! Thanks for this!

    • http://www.lisarobbinyoung.com Lisa Robbin Young

      Karen,
      Glad to see you on the blog! Very often we don’t know what it is. I’m finding that’s pretty common. If we knew, we could make our decisions more readily. It’s almost as if God wants us to feel a little trepidation – to really see if we’re trusting the process or obsessing over “controlling things” – which we all know isn’t really possible.

      Looking forward to your answer! :-)

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