Madison Marsh

Because I can tell you right now, you are going to do a much better job if you do something that you care about and you work hard at it. Because whenever you combine that passion with your purpose, you are able to become more resilient, to produce a better product, to impact the world in ways that you could never imagine. So focus on that.

Focus on the true meaning of what it means to live your life and stop living to somebody else's definition of success. Because if you do that, you are never going to find success. You're always going to be chasing the next thing and the next thing and the next thing instead of living in the moment and defining to you what it means to succeed.

For me, it's always been about proving myself right. I never enter into things to prove somebody else wrong. It's all about, I know that I come in with the skills that could enable me to do anything should I work hard and do it right. Not everyone's gonna be gifted to be great at things naturally. I know that I wasn't gifted to be naturally good at school.

I remember, I think it was maybe back in elementary school, I was performing really, poorly in my classes and somehow throughout high school, recognizing that my weaknesses don't have to remain as weaknesses. I can lean on other people. I can go to tutors. I can go to my classmates that are better at that subject than me to learn from them and get better.

And that's how you build that self-confidence because you begin to realize that you don't always have to continue quote failing at something. You can use those failures and turn them into success stories because you work hard at them. You are the only person that gets to define how you succeed.

So don't give up on yourself now because you're only cutting out a potential story that could lead you to the greatest accomplishment or greatest experience of your life.

I would say even towards the end of her life, she was always focused on other people. There was a note that we had found in her phone that she had written to herself after her Whipple surgery was canceled. And her note was not focused on wishing she could have achieved just one more thing or wishing she would have stayed at work a little bit longer or sent off another text or an email.

She was worried about her family, how we were going to continue on after she passed away, wishing that she had more time with us to just create memories. And I think that means a lot to me because I feel like we all kind of get stuck

in this race of going to the next achievement going and getting the next thing and continuing to run and run and never recognizing the true importance of life of what is directly in front of you and that is creating a life of meaning with people that are meaningful to you right in front of you my mom if she got to be here today she wouldn't be worried about winning miss america or

Winning a Rhodes Scholarship or staying after work just a little bit later to get ahead. She would be worried about, can I have an extra meal with my family this weekend? And so that truly recenters me after this year because success means nothing if you don't have anybody to come home to.

And me getting to come home to my family, getting to come home to my fiance and sharing these moments with him. That's what gives this meaning is getting to share that with people, getting to create moments of purpose for other people that get to follow behind us. That is how you create meaning in life. It's not about the accomplishment itself.

It's about what you can do for other people, how you can serve other people and create a life full of love. And that's going to stick with me forever. Thanks to how my mom really just carried out her life up until the very end.

Well, thank you so much. I appreciated it.

Think of the people that are Olympians and the work that it took to get into something like that. The people that become the superstars, people that make the breakthroughs in research. None of that came from someone doing something easy. You don't get greatness from taking the easy path. You get it from the challenge.

Think of the people that are Olympians and the work that it took to get into something like that. The people that become the superstars, people that make the breakthroughs in research. None of that came from someone doing something easy. You don't get greatness from taking the easy path. You get it from the challenge.

Think of the people that are Olympians and the work that it took to get into something like that. The people that become the superstars, people that make the breakthroughs in research. None of that came from someone doing something easy. You don't get greatness from taking the easy path. You get it from the challenge.

You get it from the days that you fail and you fall down and you suck at things and you take that and you take your weaknesses and turn it into strengths and you learn from it. You learn from the people that are better than you. And I think that challenge and wanting to meet that challenge is what makes people into success.

You get it from the days that you fail and you fall down and you suck at things and you take that and you take your weaknesses and turn it into strengths and you learn from it. You learn from the people that are better than you. And I think that challenge and wanting to meet that challenge is what makes people into success.

You get it from the days that you fail and you fall down and you suck at things and you take that and you take your weaknesses and turn it into strengths and you learn from it. You learn from the people that are better than you. And I think that challenge and wanting to meet that challenge is what makes people into success.

That's what gives them that greatness because of that willingness to fail and try and get up and try again until you get it right.