Ok, so I wasn’t so clear about how I actually went through the exercise early Friday Morning. After reading back over the post, I realize that it looks like I skipped the first two steps, but they were just done on paper. Now I’ll share them in hopes that a review of them will give me stronger results.

My Gifts:

• Musical Performance
• Facts and Trivia
• Instruction
• Performance
• Technological Proficiency
• Strong Faith
• Communication and Conversation

My Passions:

• Creating, Writing and Performing
• Being a Positive Influence on Others
• Systemization

More Specific Passions:

• Music Electronics/Synthesis/Gear
• Live Music
• Liturgical Music
• New-Media/Design and Technology Aggregation and Integration
• Keeping up with Technology Trends

It is from these gifts and passions that I drew Friday’s ‘Passion Intersections:’

• Music Technology Instruction - Teaching people (kids?) the correlation, history, and future possibilities of music with computers, computer based instruments, etc..
• Musical Resource Development - I write a lot of liturgical music, most of which could be used even worldwide and receive modest payment for it.
• Musical Performance - I could always gig but this is an obvious one I’ve intentionally stayed away from as a career choice since I left for college - why?
• Technology Instruction - I’ve actually done this before with much success, but never in my current market so it might be worth testing the waters of SC.
• Leadership Instruction - I’m an effective leader of young people but this market might be slim.
• Productivity Instruction - I think I’d get a big kick out of doing GTD-style training to executives and watching the results as they become more productive, but this is an odd market to break into, and the local market is probably intensely slim.
• Buzz Consulting - How is this even on the list, huh? I don’t even know where this could go but with my ability to get a good overview-like knowledge of emerging technology very quickly, I’m a good box drawer. I’m good at coming up with systems (at a high level) that will work once the boxes are connected by the right programmers and designers.

This is, of course, still a work in progress. But there was some confusion so I think this should clear some things up. I appreciate the comments and assistance.