What are you passionate about?

          Is there something that really gets you going, the kind of thing that makes you even happier to get out of bed every morning? Have you tried telling people about it? Does your voice sound like it’s ready to bubble over with giddy excitement as you bring people into your world?

Take a pen and paper and write down the answers to these three questions:
1) What is THE something you really enjoy doing and look forward to doing? Describe it as thoroughly as possible.
2) Why do you enjoy this activity? How does it make you feel when you are doing this activity? Would you want to share the experience with someone else as a student or a fellow participant? How would you feel if you couldn’t do this anymore?
3) How do you actually DO that thing that excites you? How long have you been doing this? Why do you believe someone else might enjoy this activity as much as you do? Imagine teaching this activity to others.

Using these answers as a guide, write more. Suppose your passion was dancing — What kind of dancing do you do? How does it feel to sway to music? If your dancing involves another person, does it feel “intimate”? Be sure to elaborate, describe feeling of the beat of the music INSIDE you. How does it affect your breathing?

Is there something specific that precipitates your need to dance, to move, to sway? Do you close your eyes when you dance and what do you “see”? Tell us if you feel alone or in a spotlight? Finally give us some background on how long you’ve been dancing. How did you start? Try to describe dancing so that the person reading this (or listening to you) can imagine herself doing the dance.

It doesn’t matter if your chosen activity is dancing, playing an instrument, gardening or writing, let others HEAR how passionate you are about doing THIS. What would you tell your student if you were teaching how to do this action? Tell them WHY everyone would be better for learning how to do this thing.

Writing Exercise: Use EACH of your senses in a one-sentence (per sense) description of how it feels to do this activity. Describe the visual experience, both as the person doing it and as a person watching it.

Writing Prompt: List each of the five senses and list three reasons you appreciate each sense (for instance, “I love the smell of home cooking”)

Writing Challenge: Write a 350-to-500 word blog post about the thing you are most passionate about. Edit it carefully and post it.