Max Living

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important.
We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.
Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet [...]

By Greg Fullerton
To Too meny many peeple people don’t tayk take akshon action beecuz because thay they spend to too much tyme time trying to bee be purfect perfect.
If there were a contest for the world’s worst speller, they wouldn’t just give me the crown — they’d build a monument to me and my “creative” [...]

By Daria Davidson
“We all get to live with the rewards and the consequences of our decisions.”
I have said that simple phrase thousands of times over the last 25 years.
Spending 20 years as an emergency room physician gave me a chance to see, up close and very personal, the truth [...]

By Bob Kaelin
If you’re feeling burned out with your Max business, it may be because you don’t know how to “keep score.” You haven’t defined the parameters of success clearly enough.
Charles Coonradt’s great book, The Game of Work: How to Enjoy Work as Much as Play, has the solution to this problem.
He observes:
“On a hot [...]

By Greg Fullerton
When I was young and recently married, I had the crazy thought that I’d become a physical therapist.
I thought it would be cool to talk to people and make them feel better for a living.
So I got a night-shift job as an orderly in a rest home in their physical therapy department. [...]

Are you abusing your gifts by making poor choices?
Learn from Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos as he explains the difference between gifts and choices and why it matters for your long-term success.

Ever wonder how to get more happiness out of your life? Watch this video and learn how using your strengths in the right way can fill your life with more bliss.

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Do you serve people as they want to be served, or as you would like to be served?
A young boy and his father were once shopping for a Mother’s Day gift. The boy eagerly found toys and asked his father if they could buy them.
“No,” came the reply, “We’re shopping for a gift for [...]

By Greg Fullerton
Last year I went fly fishing in Jackson Hole with my girlfriend Kim.
Our guide told us that the person in front of the boat would catch the most fish.
I asked Kim if she wanted the front, but she said, “No, you go ahead.”
So we spent the morning fishing. By the time [...]

If you were diagnosed with cancer and given months to live, how would it change your life? What would suddenly become most important to you?
Watch this video to learn from a person for whom this was a reality.

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