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I AM GOING TO SPACE

As a Hall of Fame athlete I have had great success in certain areas of my life. I played professional lacrosse and hockey, represented Team Canada in both sports, and won a World Championship in 2006. While I was training to return to my season, in September of 2009, I contracted three serious viral illnesses and ended up in the hospital for 30 days. I was relegated to a wheelchair and had to relearn how to walk and do many of life’s basic functions. As one would hope, this experience was life-changing. I did my best to maintain a positive attitude and began resetting my goals and dreams. Four weeks after leaving the hospital, I had a beautiful baby girl and at that point I became committed to getting healthy and accomplishing my childhood dreams.  I am pursuing this goal in an effort to inspire others and demonstrate the importance of following your dreams to my children.

Who – Jim Moss, The Panhandling Spaceman and the Dream Cadets

What – Accomplish two lifelong dreams. One, to create a nonprofit aimed at helping others be happy and healthy in relation to their accomplishments and secondly to lead by example and achieve a lifelong dream of my own and go to outer space

Where – Online, in person, in classrooms, on sports fields, all over then taking off from New Mexico 

When – Starting now, fundraising, volunteering, discussing, learning and then flying to space in 3-4 years

Why – To prove that it's never too late to achieve your dreams, large or small, and that the process of doing so will supremely enrich your life.

How – Discussing, sharing, supporting, teaching, learning, researching, volunteering, mentoring, focusing, adapting, committing

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The first video I made to try and explain the project...




Project Summary

 

 

Through my actions and efforts towards achieving my greatest goals, I want to demonstrate to others of all ages, all demographics and all socioeconomic situations, that chasing your dreams is necessary to living a happy and fulfilled life. I want to empower others to feel that it isn’t too late to accomplish even the most incredible feats, and that all of the resources are available to us, we just need to seek them out. Additionally I believe that the pursuit of these dreams will attract great and interesting people and events into our lives and therefore contribute to our ultimate happiness and healthiness. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So to be very clear...

1) I am fund raising $200,000 USD, to take a personal trip to Outer Space and become one of mankind's first astronauts. This is a personal goal to demonstrate that I can go from living in a hospital bed to Outer Space in less than five years. If I can do that, what can you do?

2) Through my dedication and perseverance, I hope to generate interest and prove through my actions that dreams can come true and inspire others to get back on track or start on the path towards their own goals and dreams as I believe that moving in the direction of our dreams will create an excellent opportunity for good things to happen.

3) Finally I will create a corporately funded, financially self-sustaining nonprofit that will aid others to achieving their goals and dreams. This entity will include free education, coaching, web based resources, in person and remote support and other resources to assist people of all demographics regardless of financial status, with all aspects of personal goal attainment. 

To do that I need your help, please give me your feedback, make a donation or pledge a donation contingent on me accomplishing a certain milestone along my path.

CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW TO MAKE A DONATION VIA PAYPAL

 

CLICK HERE TO PLEDGE A FUTURE DONATION

Sign your name and make a pledge in the guestbook. Feel free to challenge me to do a reasonable challenge to earn your pledge, or pick from the list of milestones that I hope to accomplish along the way. Thank you in advance for your support

Milestones on the list...

1) Reach out to 10,000 people to introduce the project

2) Formerly register and start the Dream Cadets nonprofit

3) Earn the $20,000 and make the Deposit on my space trip

4) Identify and help out the first 5 Dream Cadets

5) Convince a major Daytime Talkshow that we're worth talking about

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Say "Thank You" from your heart...

Say Thank You

I am sitting in the car with my parents, we’re driving to Rochester New York, from Port Elgin Ontario. I was invited to attend a professional lacrosse game, one that just two years ago, would likely have found me competing in it. The owner of the home team, a man I have never formerly met or played for, has pledged to give my family $1000.00 for each goal his team scores tonight.

The team is filled with players whom I have battled alongside and against for years, more years than I can remember. Pat O’toole, a soon to be hall of fame goaltender and perennial representative for the Professional Lacrosse Players Association, mentioned to mister Curt Styres, that my family was doing some fundraising to help offset our medical bills and lost income. His response was something along the lines of “well we can give him a jersey to raffle off, but we can do a lot more than that as well”. If times were different it may very well be that I’d be battling against Curt’s players tonight. If I was having a typical night, I’d like to think he’d be cursing me and calling me any number of well deserved names. Instead he is instructing his staff to get us VIP passes and he welcomed us into his suite with his family and he treated us with incredible dignity and respect. We met his mother Vera, a lovely and kind woman who had a very interesting pearl of wisdom to help me with my healing. Here were children running around and a beautiful little baby just the same age as my 3 month old daughter. The arms of the lacrosse family opened up and invited us in and made us safe and comfortable. I have been so overwhelmed by the support that people have shown. Supporting me and my family personally, assiting us in paying our medical and living expenses while we struggle through this time. I vow to pay all of this love and kindness forward and will keep you all posted with my donation of time to worthy causes going forward.

The fans, teams, NLL , NLLinsider.com and in particular the PLPA have been incredibly supportive.
As promised here are a few of the items they donated. My Father has been doing some fundraising and the items are for auction on EBAY.

Thank you again, my family and I are so very grateful....

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Make a Donation to the space project

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Click Here to Donate in CDN

Feb 15th, 2010

Huge thanks to Theresa and Ian from ABC News for coming and covering our story. They really felt that we were doing something good here and were happy to cover the story and told us they would look forward to doing follow up as we get closer to space! We'll keep you posted as to when it will air and will link through to the ABC News page so you can watch it online!

Feb 5th, 2010

Non-Profit project gets a name - THE DREAM CADETS

Effective March 1st, we will be entering a grant proposal to the Pepsi Refresh project in an effort to win a $25,000 grant to officially create the Dream Cadets! Stay tuned for ways you can support the cause...

Watch the video below to get up to speed on the projects (still a draft not the finished product)



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