One day the doctors told Joe Martin how long he had to live. Joe told himselfJust live.So he has beyond anyones expectations but his own. And in living his life... » 

One day the doctors told Joe Martin how long he had to live. Joe told himselfJust live.So he has beyond anyones expectations but his own. And in living his lifeJoe Martin has changed countless other lives.This is the story of a man who was successful by every measure a pillar ofhis church and community a top executive of his company the father of threechildren. In 1994 Joe was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis LouGehrigs disease. The doctors told him his life would be over in twenty monthsor less. After a brush with despair and terror Joe decided with his family andfriends that he would recover if not from the disease then from thediagnosis. No doctor could predict what might be accomplished on any given day.Using the resources at hand Joe fashioned a credo combining the words of thepsalmist and of baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. This is the day the Lord hasmade. Get up go to the ballpark and do your very best. Joe Martins best hasbeen nothing short of spectacular.Having built a career as the acknowledged conscience of Bank of America Joetook on the sponsorship of a program to organize lowincome neighborhoods forgreater political and economic clout a year after his death sentence. Hehelped start one of the Southeasts leading centers for ALS research andtreatment. In Charlotte North Carolina he played a leading role inoverturning a county government that threatened to rip apart his communityalong a religious fault line. Acting on his own Joe began a movement of racialreconciliation that has inspired people to build friendships across ethnicbarriers. Unable even to work a keyboard or speak Joe is seeminglypowerless.Yet he has found the power to change his world.Unlike Tuesdays with Morrie a book about a man dying with ALS On Any GivenDay is a book about a man living with the disease. This is both an inspirationstory and a howto book about contributing to life as a full human «