1. Tell us about a time when you were in fear about your creative career journey and you didn't think it would go anywhere...

You speak of this in the past tense! For me, I don't know if I'd call it "fear," but I am continually challenged by whether what I am doing is working. And once something is working, I am on to the next thing and trying to see if that works. Always the same goals, but the journey continues through more paths and into deeper woods, always seeking potential. That journey, that search, that struggle, that "not-knowing," is a place I am very comfortable in and, dare I say, content with. Right now, for example, we have completely changed my eight year old website, and my 141 month old monthly newsletter has seen its first slow down in new paid subscribers. What's going on? Is it over? Should I stop writing? That "fear" inspires me to get up the next morning, to listen to what is being said to me and to try another way to serve my dream and our planet.

2. Tell us about a time when you were feeling confident about your creative career journey and you absolutely knew you were going to be okay....

In 1996, I made an official speech to the United Nations. In it, I committed to my path of service, knowing that I may have doomed my financial future. Yet when I finished this most important speech in front of worldwide television, 800 delegates, and thousands of onlookers, I felt a light around me and simply glowed. I knew I had reached my potential that day, given the speech of my life, and at 45 years old, the first speech with my own voice. And then, being told that a member of the audience wanted to see me the next day, doing so, and having her support my service work as she hugged me, confirmed my path. If Mother Teresa wants you to continue doing something, you probably should!

3. How did you discover your passion?

I think it is more of an "uncovering," a remembering something you put in a box up in the attic. It didn't happen all at once, or even at a noticeable moment. Rather, as I continued to find out where I fit in by not fitting in, I gradually gravitated to work that got me jumping out of bed in the morning, work that made me forget what time it was, work that became my ruach, my breath. And then one day, after my 8-year old daughter at the time said that what she thought I love to do – "Daddy? He types." – I did realize that I was on the right path.

Visit Mark and learn more about him on the web at http://www.makingalife.com

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