I watched Inception with my 13-year-old this weekend. It’s fun showing Christopher Nolan movies to him for the first time, seeing how much he understands at first pass.

But the truth is I do it for me. And there is so much in Inception about how we create in the world, about how ideas can take hold in us and never let go.

But it was this quote, near the beginning of the movie but repeated in different forms throughout, that really hit home for me.

My leap of faith came in 2016. I had just lost my corporate job. I had successfully delayed doing what I really wanted to do. I kept telling myself that in two more years, I would start my coaching practice.

I had been on that two year plan for about ten years.

But now the plane was at 10,000 feet. My parachute, in the form of my savings and my newly found extra time, was strapped on. I was standing in the doorway, and the only question was whether I would jump, not only into coaching, but also in a move across the country to a small mountain town in which I had met exactly two people.

I jumped. And I’ve never looked back.

Today, I find this is the key moment for people. They know THAT they want make a change. They sometimes even know exactly what kind of change they want to make.

And the stand at the open door, waiting to leap, sometimes for years.

If you are that person, I am here to help you. To give you that little push and ride with you on the way down. To watch the chute open and see the smile on your face as it does.

Don’t be that person who lives a life of regret.

Take the leap of faith. And if you’d like support, reach out to me.

What would you continue to include?

What would you change?

You might find that you are creating things that you don’t think you want. But on some level, those things, like worry, like defending yourself, like trying to look smart or not feel stupid, are based on a simple misunderstanding of who you are.

You are not the identity you have created (or let others create). You are the creator of that identity. We all are. To me, this is what it means to be made in the image of God.

How are you using that infinite creative capacity? What do you think of your creation so far?

If you realized your innocence and began again, what would you create with the full knowledge of what you are doing?

What could you create?

When people are thinking about making a significant life change, they often confuse what they really want with three other things–

First, what they think they can have. I remember a client telling me that every move she had made to that point was because a recruiter had called her about a role. She was totally at the mercy of what others offered to her. She never reached out on her own or even thought about what else was possible.

While that’s an extreme case, most of us, most of the time, tend to think in terms of, “what I currently have, but 10 percent better.” And we wonder why the next thing doesn’t satisfy us!

Second, what they think others expect from them. I have had many conversations with overacheivers who thought their spouses, their families, needed them to provide a particular lifestyle or amount of money. In one recent case, I asked a client to actually ask his spouse what she wanted. He was stunned when his spouse and kids most wanted was for him to be around more. They didn’t care about all the nice things they could afford or his job title; they wanted him!

This client was also falling into the third trap—thinking that achievements or money can somehow fix some deep flaw they see in themselves.

But when my clients see that all of this is simply thoughts that come and go (just like the rest of their experience), it becomes clear very quickly that there is nothing outside of them than can ever fix an internal experience.

When people really see that, they are ready to tune into the key way to know what they actually want.

Desire.

Desire—simply wanting something just because you want it—is a precious gift. It is our road map. When we want something just because we want it, creating it becomes fun.

And when we truly commit to that creation, somehow magic begins to happen. One of my favorite quotes is from William Hutchison Murray in his book, “The Scottish Himalayan Expedition,” published in 1951. Forgive the gender specific language—

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness…[T]he moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

“All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

You might not know what providence will bring, but the first and most important step is to actually begin. When you do that, guided by your desire, you can create what to the outsider looks like miracles.

What do you desire? And what are you willing to commit to?

What is the most important thing that you could read today?

The thing you most WANT to see.

The thing you most NEED to see, even if you don’t WANT to consider it.

Is it that you could actually be true to what you want, that to be true to that would be the thing that would most serve others as well?

Is it that what the universe put you here for, your mission, your purpose, is simply to be you?

Does that excite you, or terrify you?

Consider this a prompt, a reminder, to take some time, any time, to explore that.

The entire universe is counting on you.