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How Mentorship Changed Brandon's Life

5 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this personal testimonial, Brandon recounts how meeting author and motivational speaker Mark Victor Hansen at a 2004 charity fundraiser in Portland, Oregon, became a turning point in his life. The event, which raised $1.2 million for a Christian medical aid cause, also featured Hansen challenging the audience to write 101 goals. Inspired, Brandon and his wife traveled to Hawaii, where he spent an evening under the stars drafting 338 goals on his laptop. This intensive goal‑setting exercise prompted deep spiritual reflection, leading Brandon to contemplate his purpose, mission, and relationship with God. He credits the mentorship and the goal‑writing experience with setting the course for the rest of his life.

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So for me, I was blessed and highly favored to have a mentor by the name of Mark Victor Hansen come into my life. He wrote all those Chicken Soup for the Soul books. I hired him to speak at a charity fundraising event that we were doing for a Christian charity back in Portland, Oregon, back in 2004. So I met him on May 18th, 2004, and this man changed my life because I hired him to come speak at these events. We raised $1.2 million of medical aid that day, which was fantastic. But more importantly, he challenged me to write 101 goals. And I'd never really written goals before, but he challenged everybody in the audience. It wasn't just me, but I took the challenge personally. And the following week, my wife and I went to Hawaii and I sat there at night under the stars with my laptop and my praise music, and I wrote 338 goals. Wow. And what that did is that set the course of the rest of my life. I really spent time with God saying, okay, Lord, what do you have me here for? What's the mission? What's my purpose in life?