Mission:
To Initiate The Drive Within.
To be an example of Creativity, Motivation, Progression, and Community.

Vision:
Initiate the drive within peoples hearts to seek fulfillment in their lives through sharing my life’s journey of identifying, preparing for, and achieving extraordinary goals. Provide the necessary tools, examples and inspiration to take the initiative and achieve ones own goals.

The Rationale:
The Initiative is a motivational project thats sole purpose is to give hope, inspiration and tools to pursue personal goals. Through this project, I will share my life’s journey of the pursuit and achievement of seemingly unattainable goals.  The stories of those I meet along the way will also be held up as examples of inspiration. The collective journey will be presented on this website  and through speaking engagements at grade schools, universities and organizations.

The reason for “The Initiative“ is to prove a simple but important point: Life is what we make it. We all have choices. We can choose to change or not. We can be content with who we are or we have the option to work towards the person we want to be. No matter the outcome of our decisions, we must not sit idle, we must be actively enjoying life or be actively making a change. These life-choices apply to each and everyone of us despite different life-challenges and set backs of varying degrees. The greater the hardship overcome; the greater the joy, fulfillment and self-respect.

I am doing this for me. I am doing this for the people who wish they could but physically cannot. I am doing this for the people who are alone and unsupported. I am doing this for those who dream. I am doing this for those who have forgotten their dreams. I am doing this for those who have sacrificed dreams to support others.  I am doing this to share with the ones who cannot be there. I am doing this for the story. I am doing this for the adventure. I am doing this to show what is possible.

-Samuel H. Gardner