Max Living

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

By Carl Woolston
“Sales” has become an ugly word nowadays. Canned speeches have replaced the value that salespeople once offered.
Rather than finding out what people actually want, typical salespeople today just try to push what they sell.
Instead of being viewed as a valuable resource, these types of slick salespeople are the reason prospects leave feeling [...]

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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you [...]

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“To encourage, to comfort, to awaken, and to stretch those who find themselves riding this big ball as it screams thru time in the silence of space. To be a bridge, not a barricade. To be a link, not a lapse. To be a [...]

Leadership doesn’t have to be big or complicated. Often, the most meaningful leadership is also the simplest.
And many times, all it takes is just taking notice of simple ways you can serve others and improve your community.
For example, the New York Times published this story about how one woman, Cynthia Magnus, made a big [...]