A few months ago, I met someone who absolutely loves his job. He works for a local nonprofit agency, helping hundreds of people turn their lives around. He’d only been on the job a short while when I met him, and he told me how the position came about for him. He said that one day, he declared this aspiration for himself: “I want a job that inspires me daily.” Soon afterward, the perfect position at this agency opened up for him. He suggested that I try doing the same thing — declaring an aspiration and throwing it out to the universe to see what happens.

I’ve heard this idea before. I’m a huge fan of “The Artist’s Way,” a book about creativity and spirituality by Julia Cameron. In it, she says, “Leap and the net will appear.” Which is to say, move forward in faith and the universe will create a path.

Soon after talking with my nonprofit friend, an aspiration came to me. It was that I wanted to write something that would inspire others. To do what? I don’t know. Tonight, as I was looking through “The Artist’s Way,” I found an affirmation that I highlighted 10 years ago: “My creativity heals myself and others.” Others is underlined twice. So maybe that’s what I mean.

Not long after I declared the writing aspiration, I got the idea for this blog. It’s my small hop into the universe, the grand blogosphere where the butterfly effect is in full force. Like a pebble thrown into the roiling Gulf, I have no idea where my ramblings will lead or who may be touched. But it’s a start.

Now it’s your turn. Leap!