Max Living

Do you find it difficult or even impossible to get others to see your view? Do you feel like you have important things to say that get ignored or discarded?
Leaders recognize areas of improvement in any endeavor and seek positive avenues and methods for enacting change.
They don’t whine when people don’t listen to their [...]

How does a leader deal with the failings of other people?
First of all, leaders mitigate the risk of being disappointed by others by choosing preferences in their relationships, rather than expectations.
Secondly, leaders carefully cultivate the attitude and habit of forgiveness.
Although it is not easy to do, forgiveness is one of the most powerful tools [...]

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit–immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not [...]

Society has a tendency to perpetuate myths that have little or no basis in truth.
Zig Ziglar shares a story that makes this point. He says,
“A child stood and watched her mother prepare the annual holiday ham.
The mother carefully cut each end off the ham before placing it in the pan. The child asked, ‘Mother, [...]

“I drown without fear, neither shrinking nor crying out against god, but recognizing that what is born must also perish.
“For I am a part of the whole, as an hour is part of a day. I must come on as the hour, and like an hour pass away…Regard yourself as but a single thread [...]

Do others want to follow you, or must you resort to manipulation or force to get your way?
Jim Kouzes said that,
“Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.”
In other words, we must learn how to inspire, as opposed to require.
People will only follow you with [...]

You meet 4 kinds of people on the ocean of life.
Those who drift just go with the flow. The wind and the waves control their speed and direction. The drifter quietly floats along and says, “Whatever.”
Those who surf are always riding a wave, the next big thing. They stay excited until [...]

How many of us have been the guy in this story:
There was an old man sitting on his porch watching the rain fall. Pretty soon the water was coming over the porch and into the house.
The old man was still sitting there when a rescue boat came and the people on board said, “You can’t [...]

“The most important factor in determining what will happen in our world is what you decide to let happen within you. Every circumstance — no matter how painful — is a gauntlet thrown down by the universe, challenging us to become who we are capable of being. Our task, for our own sakes [...]

By Greg Fullerton
Bill Gates, arguably one of the greatest successes in the modern business world, said this:
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
It’s usually easier to find unhappy customers willing to speak up about their experiences than happy ones.
Why? Because vocalizing dissatisfaction – and pointing a finger at the [...]