Episode 8: Passion
Hello everyone! This week's motivational video is all about "passion." What is passion? What does it mean to be passionate about something? What things in life can be gained by staying true to the things that we are passionate about? These questions and more are what I address in this video. In my view, "passion" is the fifth and final "P" in the 5-P system that I've been talking about in previous videos so far: Patience, perspective, positivity, perseverance, and passion. Pa
Don't ever give up! (video)
Hey everyone! I was taking a bit of a break from studying, when I came across this super amazing video! For one thing, this is a video of people with just as much potential willpower as you and I have inside all of us. These people also have what others might initially consider a physical disadvantage. However, from the instant you press "play" on the video player, you don't see a single second of people who are disadvantaged. You see a montage of people who have mastered the
Episode 7: Taking Flight
Happy Friday, everybody!! I'm glad to see that we've made it successfully through yet another week. :) I really hope you enjoy this week's video. For the first 1/3 of the video, this one spends a little bit of time recapping the ideas of past videos, and then for the other 2/3 of the video, I get into what's been going on woth my flight training lately. There's been lots of great things that have come up in my training, and hopefully these topics inspire you to go after the t
Episode 6: Perseverance
How's it goin, friends? I hope you enjoy this video on "perseverance"! These are some of my thoughts about enduring the turbulent times in the first few years after my spinal cord injury. However! There was light at the end of the tunnel for me, thankfully! As long as I remained driven to keep trying to apply the other 4 P's into my life, while I re-learned a whole laundry list of things, then I would find success through perseverance. Not only was it important that I try to