I spent the past few days on the road. I traveled this week to Salt Lake City to preach in a Bible Conference for a good friend of mine. While the trip was quick and the pace was furious, the “air” time allowed for a good amount of thinking and planning. What I came up with is going to define my life, ministry, and business for years to come.

When I got back home and back to work yesterday, I found myself at Borders Bookstore between meetings. I was looking at business books and found one entitled “The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.”(Affiliate Link) As I looked at the table of contents I was drawn to the second chapter which spoke about passion. The more I read the more excited I became and the more I realized how easy it is to get caught up in the moment and “sell out” your passion for what makes money.

Combining these thoughts with those I gained during my time at 35,000 feet, I realized again the need to follow your passion rather than the money. Life is too short to wake up everyday and not enjoy and rejoice in the day. Without passion for what you are doing, you are never going to know that joy and rejoicing.

Take some time this weekend and consider what you are doing in/with your life. Does what you do everyday reflect your passion or does it just make you money? All the money in the world cannot buy quiet/peace. It can give you all the excitement you could ever imagine, but it can’t take away the yearnings that we all have for our passions.

Steve Jobs left college after one semester because he did not know what he wanted in life and because he didn’t feel like he could find his passion in the classroom. His success came through times of searching for and finding his passion. I have found mine and I want you to find yours. If the world were full of people living their passions, much more would get done and the world would be a much better, much more productive, and much more innovative place.

Talk more later ….

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Innovation requires people to think! However thinking is one of the practices that seems to be lacking in so many ways in this world today.

People hear, but they don’t really listen. When someone who makes movies for a living, or is a famous sports figure, or a funny stand-up comic says something about life, politics, business, or how the world should work, many people accept their position without any thought. But, when thinking people express a view contrary to the common thought, they are laughed at and even considered mentally imbalanced.

Thomas Jefferson said that America would remain free as long as it remained educated, but that when it ceased to be educated it would cease to be free. Real education makes people into thinkers and thinkers are the real driving force for a free society.

I am looking to associate with real thinkers. I will not always agree with your thoughts and you will not always agree with mine, but real thinkers are still who I want to meet. Will you join me? Will you make my day and ask questions that I cannot answer? Will you stir my imagination and make me think?

If you will let’s get the part started! I will do my best to consider any question, but I will not argue just for the sake of arguing.

Let’s have fun ….

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I have been fooling around a lot with blogging lately and in doing so I have experimented with several of my favorite topics. After some moderate success (at least in my view) I had to ask myself that all important parental question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

This blog is my answer to myself. I have been focused on some very specific things in my first blog efforts. While I enjoyed writing in those specific areas, I much prefer conversation with thinking people than just spewing my opinions with little or no response.

I am going to try to entice every reader of this blog to comment on the topics that they have an opinion or knowledge about. My hope is that when thinking, innovative people get into real and thoughtful conversations that we can all benefit and can make the world a better place! (I know that I am still an idealist and a dreamer.)

So …. subscribe, comment, and help us to make this blog a haven for the truly innovative. It ought to be a lot of fun!

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