When everything came apart

Over 40 years ago, I opened my own chiropractic practice. It grew from one suite into a 2,700-square-foot health center, with medical doctors, physical therapists and nutritionists working under one roof. We helped thousands of patients.

But even as the owner of a growing clinic, I was struggling and frustrated. I couldn’t understand why certain things kept going wrong.

Then an accusation from an insurance company turned into a three-year legal battle. The possibility of jail, losing my license and enormous fines hung over me.

I was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing, without a blemish on my license. But the financial damage and emotional toll were devastating.

During that time, my father was diagnosed with brain cancer. He was 71 and had been walking four miles a day. Seven months later, he was gone.

The stress broke me mentally, physically and spiritually. Thoracic outlet syndrome and carpal tunnel syndrome left me with weakness, numbness and severe pain in my hands. My feet hurt so badly that getting out of bed felt like stepping onto broken glass.

Three doctors told me I would never practice again.

I could no longer do the work I had built my life around. I had to shut down my health center.

Walking through that parking lot for the last time felt like losing one of my own children. I had just turned 40.

Searching for a way forward

Desperate for answers, I returned to an earlier discovery I had explored with a former colleague about how everything in nature is connected.

As I applied what I was learning, alongside chiropractic care, nutrition and exercise, my health improved. Eventually, I was able to practice again.

But my struggles weren’t over.

For seven years, I was the primary caregiver for my mother until she passed. My marriage ended in a painful divorce that led to financial ruin. The economic downturn of 2008 wiped out what remained of my real estate investments.

Then came the hardest moment of my life: my daughter attempted suicide and was found only minutes from death.

I prayed. I journaled. I listened to personal development experts and kept searching for answers.

Yet I kept falling back into familiar frustration, anxiety and self-sabotage. I could make progress, then find myself back in the same struggle without understanding why.

I needed to understand what kept setting it in motion.

The discovery that changed my direction

I studied everything I could, from physics to the structure of the human body. Gradually, the pieces came together.

What I found was a blueprint: a natural six-step cycle behind repeatable success, and the behavioral pattern that keeps interrupting it.

The same behavioral pattern sits behind our greatest struggles and our greatest successes. What changes is its direction.

You were born with that pattern. You can’t remove it, but you can learn to recognize it and consciously change its direction instantly.

I began with myself, then explored what I was finding with family, friends and patients. Over years of applying and refining the work, I noticed something that changed my professional direction.

Patients who were business owners, executives and sales professionals began reporting changes beyond their health. They were making decisions, following through, improving relationships and moving past things that had held them back for years.

I continued examining and refining the work with thousands of people.

That discovery became my book, Life’s One Law, and led to the development of The T-NOW Method™.

Why I teach this today

More than a decade of fire is behind me now. Today, I share my life with my wife, the love of my life.

My relationships with my two daughters were once so strained that I thought they might never speak to me again. During the divorce, they heard things about me that were untrue, and the distance between us was heartbreaking. Today, we have rebuilt those relationships and are close again.

My family has also grown to include four stepchildren and ten grandchildren.

Professionally, I’ve gone from having to close my health center to building a thriving business in a field I never imagined for myself—as a self-sabotage and behavioral pattern expert, best-selling author and international speaker.

Through The T-NOW Method™, I help people recognize the behavioral pattern behind their recurring struggles and learn how to change its direction in their work and personal lives.

I have the privilege of helping others understand what I spent years trying to understand myself.

I don’t want anyone else to spend years in the dark the way I did.

Whether you’re struggling in your work, your relationships or a decision you keep putting off, my purpose is the same: to help you recognize what keeps getting in your way and learn how to change its direction.