Monthly Archives: December 2011

10 things I am passionate about

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>“passion” is the new business buzz word, notice that?

Seems that everywhere I look, everything I read is all about finding your passion! Living your passion! Breathing your passion!

Ok – I get it. 
So, I have been thinking long and hard about what it is I am truly passionate about. (This need to really figure it out was fueled by my participation in Lolly Daskal’s weekly Leadership tweetchats called #leadfromwithin – the one in particular, you guessed it, on passion! – they are on 8pm EST every tuesday btw, if you want to join in. It is phenomenal the amount of tweet traffic that ensues.

I am passionate about everything I do, the only trouble is that it seems like a lot of different things!
My hands are in a hundred different cookie jars, so to speak. After much deliberation, I recognized all my passionate pursuits have one thing in common: behaviour!

I am passionate about behaviour. So here is the list of my top 10 things I am passionate about (and their behaviour)

10. Technology (behaviour of inorganic & organic compounds)

9. Communities (behaviour of social groups)

8. Reading (behaviour or words)

7. Social Media (behaviour of ‘apparently’ independent yet interconnected sources)

6. Product making (behaviour of ingredients)

5. Photography (behaviour of light and color)

4. Family (behaviour of loved ones)

3. Energy (behaviour of molecules and vibrations)

2. Plants (behaviour of the building blocks of life)

1. Learning (behaviour of the mind)

That’s the top 10 right now. It will change again, I’m sure. What’s in your top 10 passionate things?

Free coffee for seizing the moment

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Drove to the gas station (see logo reference) to fill up and continue on with my day. Parked & got ready to pump gas. The gas attendant mechanically advised me (over the intercome) that the system was down for a ‘while’. 

What to do?
Drive another kilometer and keep rushing around, pushing my to do task list to completion?

Hmmm. Not today.
I decided to cease the precious moment of ‘nothing to do’ by going inside the gas station. I picked up a coffee, made small talk with the attendant behind the counter. Looked outside. Enjoyed the pause. Five minutes later, their system was back online, so I prepaid for my gas, and headed out.

The attendant said “coffee is on me, thanks for waiting.”Thank you Shell, for making your down time a good stop for me.

What would you have done: rushed off in search of another gas station or stayed put and waited?

(Due to that pause, the next few tasks were super positive experiences. Where everyone seemed to be extra nice – maybe I was simply less harried looking? Whatever that 5 minute pause did, it has made the rest of the day incredible)