The Shining Light - In the words of Brandon Stockdale

Life is full of other people's opinions. I believe it's important to have different points of view from other people because it can help you further discover life, which is one of the reasons that I started this blog. The burning question I have always had, and I'm starting to figure out is this: How do you deal with opinions of people that are negative and don't believe in your vision? The simple and most frequent answer is to not worry about the criticisms of other people and rightfully so. In this installment of Discovering Your Calling, I'd like to further explore this question by understanding, I believe, three reasons why people criticize and how society should handle it. 1. People are going to criticize your vision and calling because of their complacency and lack of drive. In case you live under a rock, you know we have complacent people in the world we live in today. Complacent people are generally, those who are never happy and constantly complain, b...

I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July holiday and is ready to get back rolling with whatever you have going on for the rest of the summer. I've decided to write a series of three blog posts over the next few weeks in a series I would like to title "Discovering Your Calling" which will deal with three specific topics: Questions that lead to Realization, The Inevitable Criticism and Priority: You. These topics are subject to change as I continue to create and think of content for this series. Let's jump in to the first topic: Questions that lead to Realization. I'd like to pose a very simple question: What is your gift? As in, what do you feel God has blessed you to better than anyone else? This is a question that many people know the answer to, however, there are some out there that may still be on the fence of truly discovering what they were put on Earth for. I can speak for college students everywhere who, at some point has struggled to answer this ques...