Snail to the Finish-Leaning on Faith

How to Get Through Adversity with Maximum Success

by William C. Jarvis


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 2/27/2006

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 8.5x8.5
Page Count : 88
ISBN : 9781420885774

About the Book

Everyone’s nightmare is to wake up in the hospital to find one unable to move due to a car collision.  This happened to me in December 2000. During the months that followed I had physical and occupational therapy, speech and many other therapies to regain cognitive and physical abilities.  I was not expected to survive the accident. I was in a coma for five weeks, experienced a brain stem twist, broke all fourteen ribs, and fractured C1-C4 vertebrae.  An outcome of his brain stem twist was a traumatic brain injury.  I spent a total of one and a half years in hospitals in Indiana and New Jersey

A snail moves slowly, but consistently to his goal.  This book presents ideas on how to get through adversity.  Like the snail, progress is often very slow, but success is there if a person knows how to achieve it and finds evidence of progress.

There is a meaningful connection between faith and the healing process.  My faith has had a remarkable influence on recovery.  Leaning on his faith has influenced my recovery.

I have developed thirteen strategies to maximize success in getting through adversity.  If a person implements these strategies as part of his daily effort, he will experience a new hope for living.  The contents of this book will challenge the reader to improve.  The book provides charts for a person to record his physical and psychological progress.

A person can experience success in coming through adversity. He must record progress in order to realize it.  These are ideas for thinking in a new direction.  There is no ‘finish line’.  The most important aspect of recovery will be a person’s perseverance: to have strategies and a plan for success; then, stick to it.


About the Author

Dr. Jarvis has been an instrumental music teacher, supervisor of Fine Arts, and school principal in New Jersey.  He presently co-teaches one course at Taylor University Fort Wayne in Education and is co-leader of the Parkview Hospital Traumaitc Brain Injury (TBI) support group in Fort Wayne.  He also has published articles on effective teaching techniques and holds a MA in Education from the University of Kentucky 1970, an MA in Music from Trenton College 1976, and an Ed D in Education from Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 1981.

He received the Kappa Delta Pi Award for the most outstanding dissertation proposal submitted through the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 1981. During his hospitalization, he received Achiever of the Year - Outstanding Communication Improvement from the New Jersey Speech and Language Association, 2002, for his improvement in rehabilitation at Hartwyck Brain Injury Hospital in Edison, New Jersey.

He has been a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians for over thirty five years and received First in Senior Competition-40th Annual Magi Fest, 1971.  He uses magic during to illustrate how to achieve success in getting through adversity.

Dr. Jarvis has given lectures at hospitals, psychology groups, and therapy groups on strategies for improvement through adversity based on the contents of this book.  He also has made presentations at magic conventions on ‘Hope through Magic for People with Disabilities and has been a guest speaker at many churches on ‘Leaning on Faith’ through adversity.