Max Living

By Carl Woolston
I once went hiking with a group of guys on a trail that led to a great waterfall.
We’d heard that as you got to the waterfall, in order to see it up close, you had to do a steep climb down to the river in the canyon. We were planning for that and [...]

We hear a lot of discouragement on the road to success. It can come from naysayers and negative people, but it can also come from those we love and trust.
Listen to a father’s inspirational advice to his son in this clip from “The Pursuit of Happyness.”

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By Carl Woolston
We’re swamped in problems, in government, within our families and businesses. We see problems with friends, our bosses or maybe our local pastor.
We all can recognize problems around us, but that doesn’t make us unique. What makes us unique and invaluable is our ability to bring solutions to these problems.
Let’s take a workplace [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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By Greg Fullerton
So back in the days when I weighed 340…
“Oh, here he goes again on his ‘big’ days.”
I was in Panama City, Florida doing a training and I had some time to kill.
I was walking along the beach and I saw a guy parasailing. I had the crazy thought that I should try [...]

Patience can be hard to find in our fast-paced world. Watch this video to remember that with patience the world is a much more wonderful place.

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By Carl Woolston
“I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, [...]

“I can only do so much” is a lame excuse for not doing anything. Watch this video to to gain confidence that your small, everyday actions truly matter.

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