Pay it Forward

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Pay it Forward

• Presentation for Shad Valley
• Richard Hoshino
• July 21st, 2005

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Outline for Tonights Talk

• Starting Your Race
• Developing a Clear Ambition for Your Life.
• Running Your Race
• Persevering Despite Obstacles and Adversity.
• Finishing Your Race
• Using Your Gifts to Serve and Inspire Others.

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Starting Your Race

• Be the Change You Want to See in the World.
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Find a passionate cause that you believe in, and
  develop a clear plan of how you can turn your
  vision into a reality.

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Free the Children

• Founded in 1995 by Craig Kielburger.
• Free the Children has impacted the lives of over
  a million children in 35 countries.
• The organization has built 400 primary schools
  which provides daily education to 35,000
  students, and distributed more than 200,000
  school and health kits.
• Craig and his brother Marc have written four
  best-selling books on childrens rights and
  community involvement.

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Free the Children (continued)

• In 1999, Craig and Marc Kielburger founded
  Leaders Today, an organization that provides
  training in leadership and global citizenship to
  more than 250,000 students annually across North
  America.
• Has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
  twice.

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North American Values

• Canadians watch an average of 22 hours of TV
  every week.
• North Americans spend more money on shoes,
  watches, and jewelry than on higher education.
• 90 of teenage American girls describe their
  favourite hobby as store-hopping.
• Only 29 of young adults volunteer.

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Running Your Race

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
  Only through experience of trial and suffering
  can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,
  and success achieved.
• Helen Keller
• Despite the many obstacles we will face, our
  character will only be strengthened by adversity
  and failure.

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Biography

• 1816 - His family was forced out of their home.
• 1818 - His mother died.
• 1831 - Failed in business.
• 1832 - Ran for state legislature lost.
• 1832 - Lost his job. He wanted to go to law
  school but couldnt get in.

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Biography (continued)

• 1833 - Borrowed some money from a friend to begin
  a business and by the end of the year he was
  bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life
  paying off this debt.
• 1834 - Ran for state legislature again won.
• 1835 - Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died
  and his heart was broken.
• 1836 - Had a nervous breakdown and was in bed for
  six months.

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Biography (Continued)

• 1838 - Sought to become speaker of the state
  legislature defeated.
• 1840 - Sought to become elector defeated.
• 1843 - Ran for Congress lost.
• 1846 - Ran for Congress again won.
• 1848 - Ran for re-election to Congress lost.

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Biography (continued)

• 1849 - Sought the job of land officer in his home
  state rejected.
• 1854 - Ran for Senate of the United States lost.
• 1856 - Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at
  his partys national convention got less than
  100 votes.
• 1858 - Ran for U.S. Senate again again he lost.

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Biography (continued)

• 1860 - Elected President of the United States
• The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped
  from under me, knocking the other out of the way,
  but I recovered and said to myself, "Its a slip
  and not a fall."
• Abraham Lincoln

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Food for Thought

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
• I've lost almost 300 games.
• 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game
  winning shot and missed.
• I've failed over and over and over again in my
  life.
• And that is why I succeed.
• Michael Jordan

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Finishing Your Race

• We make a living by what we get, but we make a
  life by what we give.
• Winston Churchill
• Lets make the commitment to use all of our gifts
  and abilities, combined with the unique
  circumstance we have been placed in, to serve and
  inspire others. Lets pay it forward.

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Humanities / Math 101

• Free university program in the humanities for
  underprivileged people.
• Three prerequisites for enrollment
• Must live below the poverty line.
• Must be functionally literate.
• Must have a passionate love for learning.

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The First Race (1973)
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Boston Marathon (2003)