Turn Tragedy into Good is my Life Mission.
I know how to go through Hell on Earth and still live a long, healthy, happy life!
What you want to know - and what you may not want to know...but need to.
“You’ll never be anything but a bum!” is what I was told throughout my teenage years. “You’re permanently disabled now - and will never lead a normal life again,” is what my neurosurgeon told me at age 24 following my roughnecking spinal injury. “You’re the prime suspect in three horrific murders...and your life is ruined!” is what I heard over and over after someone I love, her father and 8-year-old nephew were murdered.
These dire predictions about my life - and how I responded to them – have defined my life and moved me to share what I’ve learned from them about our Mind, Body and Spirit. After becoming disabled for life, HOW DID I overcome my spinal injury and go on to lead a very active life - including playing many sports? After intentionally flunking out of college in an act of self-sabotage so I could become the bum I’d been told for so many years I was going to be, HOW DID I become a lawyer - a trial lawyer who was the subject of various news media stories, including being interviewed by Diane Sawyer on the acclaimed 60 Minutes news program? And, after becoming the prime suspect in three brutal murders, losing my law practice and almost everything I had to lose, being told I’d flunked a polygraph test about the murders, and going up into nearby mountains to drive of a mountain road to end it all, HOW DID I avoid taking my life that day, ultimately find the killer then orchestrate the killer’s confession on the day of his execution for the infamous University of FL “Gainesville Murders” – clearing myself after 17 long years – and today am turning Tragedy into Good through my book, movie and inspirational speaking?
SURVIVING these Mind, Body and Spirit challenges FORCED ME to become the best I can be! And, what I learned from these challenges, can EMPOWER YOU to overcome YOUR OWN life challenges and become the best YOU can be!
Like other inspirational talks I’ve heard, mine includes the message that, if I can overcome what I have, then, you can overcome your own life challenges, too. But my talk is about much more than that! I KNOW how to go through Hell on Earth and still live a healthy, happy life...because I HAVE - AND AM! And I want to share with you HOW I OVERCAME my life challenges, WHAT I LEARNED from them about OUR MIND, BODY and SPIRIT and, most importantly, HOW WE CAN ALL OVERCOME our life challenges and become the best we can be!
I hope you’ll book me to deliver my health and wellness motivational talk TRIALS by FIRE, My Improbable Journey to Happiness.
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Almost everyone who learns about my life asks how I have overcome what I have and how I am healthy, “normal” and happy today - then frequently urge me to speak or write a book about it. So, I have.
Stories, especially true stories, are the best way I know to inform, inspire and motivate. Many who have heard me speak and many who have read my book, tell me that my talk and book do just that. Like other true story motivational talks, I’ve heard and health and wellness books I’ve read, my talk and book include the message that, if I can overcome what I have, then, you can overcome your own life challenges, too. But my talk and book are about much more.
I know how to go through Hell on Earth and still live a healthy, happy lifebecause I have - and am! Through my story, I share with you how I overcame my life challenges and what I learned from them about ourmind, body and spirit. But, most importantly, I share with you how you can all overcome almost any of your life challenges, become the best you can be, live a long, healthy life and earn real happiness.
Along with my TRIALS by FIRE, My Improbable Journey to Happiness health and wellness motivational talk, I am sharing how I have overcome what I have in a way that I am healthy and happy today through my TRIALS by FIRE, My Improbable Journey to Happiness health and wellness book which you can purchase at ------. I hope you will check out Chapter 1 below and read my health and wellness book, as well as hear my health and wellness motivational talk based on it.
My Improbable Journey to Happiness
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About This Book for You
“For everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or you can treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing.
You get to choose.”
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Long before I had heard of Wayne Dyer, his books or speaking, I was applying the attitude about life that he articulated so well through this, “You get to choose,” comment. The essence of his comment permeates my life and this book, so I begin our journey to happiness with it.
Your choosing this book from millions of others at this time of falling life expectancy and fading happiness says that you view what has happened in your life as an opportunity to grow, feel better and be happy. If so, you have chosen well. This book will empower you to.
I know because, what I learned from three mind, body and spirit life trials, enabled me to grow and feel as good and as happy as anyone I know today. But more than helping you for just today, this book will empower you to mentally, physically and spiritually grow, feel good and be happy for life.
In a world where many live their lives in quiet desperation, seeking happiness in so many wrong ways and in so many wrong places, I have been asked many times how I am happy despite what I have experienced. It’s a
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Polite and somewhat shy as a boy, I loved sports and never needed to be reminded to say my daily prayers.
Despite hearing throughout my teenage years that I would never become anything but a “bum,” I was known as “Mr. Nice Guy,” served in Student Government and was voted Senior Favorite at my nationally recognized high school.
But, in an act of pure self-sabotage, I walked away from college one semester without withdrawing - so I could make a 0.0 GPA that semester, flunk out and finally be the “bum” I had been told for years I was going to be.
I went to work roughnecking on oil drilling rigs where I ruptured several discs in my spine. Several surgeries later, my surgeon told me that me I was permanently disabled, would never lead a normal life again...and gave me a handful of pain prescriptions.
One Fourth of July there were romantic fireworks when I fell in love with Julie. I prayed every day for God to bless and protect Julie and her family.
But it wasn’t much more than a year later that Julie, her father and 8-year-old nephew were brutally stabbed to death one night in their peaceful neighborhood home.
When tomorrow never came for Julie, her father and nephew, I became headline news as the prime suspect in their gruesome murders - and faced the toughest challenge of my life. As Homicide Detectives pursued me trying to break me, I lost almost everything I had to lose and heard that my life had been “ruined.”
After descending into a dark depression, one day I drove up into nearby mountains and found a turn in a mountain road to drive off into the deep gorge below - and end it all. Despite my longing to die, though, I didn’t drive off that mountain road. But, because I didn’t, I was haunted by my past as the prime suspect in three brutal murders.
Despite hearing I would never be anything but a bum, that I was disabled for life and, that my life had been “ruined,” today I am healthy and happy delivering my TRIALS by FIRE health and wellness motivational talks and promoting my TRIALS by FIRE health and wellness book.
Today, I am also completing my upcoming WHEN TOMORROW NEVER COMES murder and spiritual mystery book and movie screenplay. I am determined to prove that my life has not been ruined and am determined toTurn Tragedy into Good by making this a little better world through sharing what I learned from my journey following Tom, Julie and Sean Grissom’s murders.
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