Drew Gerber, CEO of Wasabi Publicity, shares how he believes that when the universe presents a possibility, it lets us know we are the one to carry the torch and that it’s the right thing to do.

1. Life Offers Us a Thousand Chances… All We Have To Do Is Take One
One of my favorite movies is Under the Tuscan Sun. I just watched it again for
the countless time. On the surface, the film is your typical chick flick (which
I happen to be a big fan of). But if you look deeper, there are some very
profound messages.
It…s just like eating a meal that you think is just like all the others. But if
you really get present to the food, you can taste the subtle, life-altering
flavors.
The story goes like this. After finding out her husband is having an affair,
Frances (Diane Lane), a book critic, ends up on a gay, romantic tour of Tuscany,
alone. During one of the stops, while wandering the streets of Cortona, she sees
an advertisement for a villa for sale. She rejoins her tour on the bus and, just
outside the town the bus makes an unexpected stop to allow a herd of sheep to
cross the road. Frances realizes they…ve stopped right in front of the villa she
had seen in the posting earlier that day.
Frances believes it…s a sign, and immediately buys the home.
One of the most profound scenes is a conversation she has with her realtor,
Martini. Frances is questioning herself … naturally, thinking how crazy she is
to buy a villa in a foreign country that needs a lot of TLC. In the scene she…s
crying, asking herself out loud why she bought the huge house for only her… for
a life she doesn…t have. Martini shares a powerful story.
…Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the
Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They
built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built
these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the
trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.…
Whether or not this story is true, it has you stop and ponder.
When we were packing up our house in the U.S. to move to Budapest, I had the
exact same feelings as Frances: What the ^$%# are we thinking? Am I sure about
this? We are leaving our beautiful house in the mountains (that we built),
putting it on the vacation rental market, and moving into a 700 square foot
apartment while we attempt to renovate, from floor to ceiling, an apartment in a
foreign country. Genius!
In some moments the noise was louder than others … like when we had a production
company filming us checking the dog kennel for our flight across the Atlantic
Ocean. But even in those deafening times, those times where the noise in your
head drowns everything else, I knew that we were doing the right thing.
This was my track across the Alps.
Sometimes it…s scary to trust the unknown; to keep the faith. But I believe that
when the universe presents a possibility, it lets us know we are the one to
carry the torch and that it…s the right thing to do.
Too often, entrepreneurs and change agents listen to that noise and think that
it means they shouldn…t lay the track until the train is built. But what would
the world be like if Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. had waited? The world
needs to get across the Alps. And although the train to take us there might not
have arrived, we all need to be building those tracks.
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About the Author:
For 30 years, L. Drew Gerber has been inspiring those who want to change the
world. As the CEO of Wasabi Publicity, lauded by the likes of PR Week and Good
Morning America, he sparks …aha… conversations that lead to personal and
business success. His PR firm is known for landing clients on Dr. Phil, Oprah,
Anderson Cooper, the Wall Street Journal, Inc., Entrepreneur, and other top

2. media outlets. Wasabi Publicity lives to launch conversations that make a
difference and change the world. Contact Drew at AskDrew@PublicityResults.com or
visit his blog at www.DestinationAha.com.