Max Living

Tony Snow, an American journalist, served for a short time as George W. Bush’s press secretary. In 2005, before taking on that role, he was diagnosed with cancer. A few months following his diagnosis, he shared this powerful perspective on his mortality:

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting [...]

“You’ve heard of people calling in sick. You may have even called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well?
It’d go like this: You’d get the boss on the line and say, ‘Listen, I’ve been sick ever since I started working here, but today I’m well and I [...]

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard
How are you making your life better one day at a time? Please share with us below.

There’s a certain way to trap raccoons that is reminiscent of how so many people are trapped in mediocrity.
To trap a raccoon one can drill a small hole in a log, angle nails downward into the hole while still leaving an opening, and place a shiny object at the bottom of the hole.
Raccoons will reach [...]

How can one maintain effectiveness over a long period of time without burning out?
Abraham Lincoln said, “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend seven sharpening my saw.”
If you are constantly striving to produce, with no time for relaxation, you will start to become ineffective and will eventually burn out.
A bow [...]

“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself [...]

By Greg Fullerton
Talk to a paramedic and they’ll likely tell you emergency calls have a strange tendency to come in groups of three.
Sometimes the same can be true in regular life.
You get passed over for a promotion at work. Your car gets totaled. A family member gets diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. [...]

How many people in America are working in a job that they tolerate at best, and suffer through at worst, because they can’t bear to give up their benefits and their “security?”
How many of us can hardly stand to get up in the morning, yet we do it any way because we’re like a [...]

Engage your prospects and customers sincerely, as friends, and soon you’ll have a lot more customers.
You have no idea how much your words will mean to someone else. Everyone could use some validation.

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“An Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters” by Portia Nelson:
Chapter 1. 
I walk down the street. There is a hole in the sidewalk. I fall in – I am lost… 
I am helpless – It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.
Chapter 2. 

I walk down the same street. There is [...]