If you could make history, who would you be?

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I’ll never get a chance to see anything like this again. This is history in the making.

I’ve been hearing and reading comments like this quite a lot recently – about seeing the Olympic Torch, the London Olympics themselves, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

We truly are living in remarkable times, and the opportunity for us all is not just to witness history in the making but also make some for ourselves.

Apart from these huge events, which provide a platform for us all to come together with a common purpose and celebrate our humanity, I feel that a unique energy is building that will allow deep and lasting personal change to occur without individuals having to work at it for years.

I sense from friends, family, clients and colleagues that I’m not alone in feeling that 2012 is a momentous year, one in which people are starting to do what they really want to do and be who they are meant to be despite all the dire news about the world economy.

I know I can only speak for myself but my experience of this year, now that we are almost halfway through it, is one of really getting to grips with what I’m really here to be. And that process has involved periods of inspiration and activity followed by longer periods of reflection and readjustment.

I’m not saying there have been wrong turns, just that as I continue along my path, the direction I’ve taken has not necessarily been the one I mapped out when I took my first step.

When I qualified as a human potential coach, I thought that would be it: my purpose fulfilled. But I now realise that my story is bigger than that and incorporates everything I have learnt thus far, all the skills and experiences I have picked up along the way.

So I’m beginning to see that my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is unfolding in ways I could never have anticipated. For a start, I thought I’d always be a writer, not a speaker but that perception is shifting.

What is your own piece of history in the making? Your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show up in the world? Your chance to do something memorable? Whatever it is and wherever you are, now is the time to make it happen.