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By Greg Fullerton
Once when I was a teenager I went fishing with my dad, my brother, and our dog Fluff in Flaming Gorge.
We spent hours preparing at home, packing everything and double-checking our list to make sure we’d have a great weekend.
We drove to the boat launch area and put our boat into the water. [...]

“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows,” Rocky reminds us. “It’s a very mean and nasty place. And I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.”
Watch this video to get Rocky’s inspiring advice on what to do about it:

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Joe DiMaggio was one of the greatest baseball hitters of all time and a Hall of Famer.
In a spring training game — that did not count in the standing or statistics — Joe drove a ball down the first baseline.
Instead of jogging to first with a single, Joe sprinted around first and dove headfirst [...]

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By Bob Kaelin
I’ll never forget my very first sales call fresh out of college.
I was working for a pharmaceutical company and my job was to service pharmacies. I had been given a territory that hadn’t been serviced for months.
I prepared to call on the ad manager for a particularly large chain. I had done all [...]

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.

By Carl Woolston
Nobody is perfect. Nobody has all the talent. Nobody has their entire act together. We’re all incomplete.
We’re like half baked cakes, looking and waiting for the remaining ingredients to complete the perfect recipe.
The best families aren’t made of “perfect” parents or children. The best churches aren’t made of “perfect” parishioners. The best teams [...]

Greg Fullerton
“I’m living on a one-way, dead-end street, and I don’t know how I got there.” -Steven Wright
Like many of us, my dad, rest his soul, wasn’t always the best communicator.
I remember him working on the car one time. I was 9 or 10 years old and he’d asked me to help him. [...]