We were watching American Idol when my husband said, "You know what? I am the American Idol, me!”"So am I!" I said, and we laughed but then, while I was watching the program, I began to realize... he's right. He really is the American Idol. So am I. We all are.Each and every person on this planet is here for a reason. We are all the chosen one - here to change or even save the world.This is why so many people - tens of thousands - show up to audition for a singing show. Each of them sensing, on a deep level, the call to stand on that stage and get bigger. "I could do this," they sense. "if I had the cameras on me, if I had the resources, if I had the support of the backup singers. Me.The call of that inner 'rising' - the "I could do this" is the same impulse that has gotten people all over the world, out of their homes and into the streets. This is why they are occupying New York, Boston, Chicago, London, Rome...This is why they are overthrowing governments across the globe...There's an inner fire rising - and it's calling people out of complacency, into the streets, calling: I have this precious and important life, this gift to bring to the world and I need the conditions of the world to support that.The call to occupy the self and out of that fullness, to occupy (and co-create) the world)When pundits and politicians pontificate about the #Occupy movement's lack of organization, they're missing the wider, archetypal theme: a theme that's been slowly rising for years, right before our eyes on our television screens.The global outrage isn't arising from a political impulse - it's personal, spiritual: the intrinsic need to live a life of purpose, to be of good service - to make use of our lives.Or, as Steve Jobs put it, the impulse to "leave a ding in the world."As people all over the world, wake up, stand up and ask for what they need, use this powerful energy to do the same in your own life: harness these forces of change to bring your gift to the world.