Please don’t put me in a box.

I rebel against definitions. Excuse me while I attempt to find peace within this straight jacket called Avoiding Tangents.

[See, right here? This space? I deleted a tangent here.]

Okay, so I have lots of thoughts on lots of subjects. A blog is a great place to spill the thought overflow, but I realize few wish to follow all my rabbit trails, and of those few, perhaps none could keep up. And that’s okay. I probably couldn’t keep up with someone else’s rabbit trails.

Focus, I need focus.

Focus on what?

I wondered about the answer to this for many moons. Then I read this great post by Mary DeMuth on Michael Hyatt’s blog. Mary asks the question, “What is your passion?”

What is my passion? My first response is, “Writing,” but as Mary points out, writing is a vehicle. What do I hope to accomplish with my writing?

Er . . . a million dollars would be nice.

Well, as many before me have discovered, the pursuit of cash simply isn’t a great motivator. Besides, it makes me crazy.

So, what is my passion, and why am I avoiding this question?

Mary offers several possible reasons, and I think, for me, I’ve just gotten too busy to really think about it.

Too busy to think? But I love to think!

No wonder my world feels like a tornado.

Mary offers three exercises to discover your passion, and because I don’t like to be defined, I worked backwords.

Doesn’t that sound noble yet rebellious? Actually, I just worked in the order of easiest to hardest.

Unfortunately, when I asked on Twitter and Facebook what others thought my passion might be, I didn’t get much response.

So I moved on to the other two, but those are for future posts.

Just for giggles, whether you’ve known me for 28 years or just long enough to read this post, what do you think my passion might be?

For more passionate reading, visit Hustle Life’s Passion Issue or thoughts on igniting passion from Zen Habits.

What are you passionate about?