Having coffee with coaching colleague Susie Horgan is always a dynamic experience. We get together every few months to touch base, compare notes and get inspired. But last Friday’s meeting at Starbucks was particularly charged.

We danced around current projects, future visions, family updates and the world. When we hit on the topic of the 47-year old British talent discovery, Susan Boyle (click her name to see her performance), the sparks really flew. Susie was so excited about the impact of this woman’s arrival on the scene that she plans to add the youtube video to her site.

Skeptic that I am, I had my doubts. I watched Charles Van Doren scam the American public answering the $64,000 question. I still wonder if Candid Camera is setting me up and am suspect of most things commercial. I couldn’t fully believe this woman wasn’t a make-over in reverse out to fool the American/British Idol masses. She seemed too poised and talented to have come out of nowhere.

But Susie won me over. Having been in the entertainment industry for decades, Susie explained the evidence of Boyles’ amateurishness–the way she held the mike, for instance. What completely enchanted Susie, that my suspicion blinded, was this woman’s sheer tenacity and belief in her dream. That she did whatever was necessary in pursuit of that vision.

Without minimizing this woman’s amazing achievement, I said to Susie, “That’s what my clients do on a weekly basis. They set powerful goals for themselves and take huge, scary steps to achieve them, day in and day out.”

Susie reminded me that this country and the world are hungry to witness these “ordinary people” miracles. I forget how extraordinary it is because that’s the world I inhabit daily. Lucky me!