The book is a memoir of Joe, nicknamed Yubbie, an easy-going and sensitive “fat” kid who fell victim to merciless bullying. Humiliation turned to anger and a life of “looking out for number one”. For most of his teens and early adulthood he became a self-absorbed cheater, drug abuser and alcoholic who cared only for himself and his pleasures. He learned that his abuses came at a high cost, losing his first professional job and unable to maintain any enduring relationship.

Then, in 1982 he was critically injured in a car wreck, landing in a chronic pain clinic, barely able to move his body. Lying there in the hospital bed paralyzed by pain, he had an epiphany: the key to happiness was not in the self-oriented life he was living but in helping others.

Slowly, he refocused his mind on healing his broken body, an effort that took almost seventeen years. He transformed himself from near-cripple to a Black Belt in martial arts, a long distance bike rider, and a personal trainer. His transition was not complete, however. He was only able to repair his body because he was able to repair his mind. His thinking changed his physical life, and then went to work on the outside world. He started with fostering troubled gang members and over fourteen years he and his wife helped more than 100 adolescents navigate through troubled upbringing.

The book shares more than Joe’s story.  It shares the philosophy of his holistic, mind-based, life-changing system that transformed him from an “everyday Joe” into a happy, caring individual who embraces life and works everyday to help other people do the same. It is a book that just could change your life – for the better!