When I was a kid, I loved turning over the cinderblocks and other stones that lined our family’s small backyard garden. Instead of just wet dirt, I found an entire world of creatures (mostly bugs). It was glorious.
Apply this process to criticism and all of the undesirable stuff that comes your way. It’s so easy to see these things as roadblocks, stones in the way of the journey. Stumbling blocks.
Take some time and turn them over. Perhaps around or inside of these stumbling blocks, these “stones in the way” is a whole new world of possibility waiting to be discovered, explored, mined for meaning.
Leave no stone unturned–especially those in your way.