Justin, I don’t know if you’ve seen Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, but if you haven’t, consider giving it a viewing. It’s one of my favorites.

Max, I think a little evolution is inevitable and necessary to any blog. As I’ve changed over the past year, I think the blog has reflected those changes. It’s at those times that I lose my focus that I realize I need to step back and reassess the meaning of my own work and what I bring to this little corner of the blogosphere.

Ken, I think the best way to help folks find their own soulful work is through out own example. I was raised Baptist and to this day, I’m turned off by preaching (though I can slip into my preacher mode rather quickly if I’m not self-aware). For me, it’s far preferable to model the way than to talk the way.

To pursue soulful work is something that I encourage anyone who will listen to do. Sometimes it becomes more difficult than it seems. We have to figure out what we are passionate about first and then figure out what to do with that passion. That is the toughest part – squeezing what we are passionate about into our everyday life. So many people get caught up in a job that they are not able to find time for soulful work.

When I ask people what they are passionate about I get blank stares more often than I can count.

Thanks for sharing your soulful work. I accept your challenge to pursue my own!

Mission-drift has plagued almost every ongoing project I’ve started, and every blog I’ve yet begun has almost immediately turned into something other than I intended (not always in a negative direction, but always noticeable when I take a moment to review my work), so I can appreciate how simple it is to wander away from the initial goal.

I’m interested in seeing where this odyssey leads.