At age 16, Richard Branson was struggling with school and having a difficult time seeing why all the work was worth the effort. So he took matters into his own hands; he dropped out. 

No one could have predicted what would come next. That just a few years later, Branson would go on to start Virgin Records, which would become a giant within the music industry. That he would eventually one day be knighted for his contribution to entrepreneurship. That later in the 21st century he would be in the mix with the commercial space tourism race through Virgin Galactic.

At Scatter, we’re equipping you with the tools and resources you need to thrive in the ways God has uniquely designed you to contribute. We want to see you leverage your personality and passion, your talents and training to bring real and lasting impact to the world around you. By 12 years old, movie director and film legend Steven Spielberg was already wowing his childhood friends and family with short, homemade western films. Even as a teenager, he knew that he had found his lane. His joy. His spark. If you were to skim through the opening chapters of most modern biographies, you wouldn’t have to flip far before you found a similar moment of “spark discovery.” There is a point in most people’s lives where whatever gift, talent, or passion that has either been lying latent or has been casually explored suddenly sparks and catches flame. When things suddenly “just sort of clicked.” But what are these sparks? How do you go about finding them, nurturing them into a blazing fire of joy and passion?  If you haven’t found that spark yet, don’t be discouraged. There is no timeline that dictates when sparks have to be discovered. Don’t fall […]