Max Living

By Bob Kaelin
Years ago I worked for a man who, at the time, was the richest man in the state of Utah. I ran one of his companies and we became close.
I quickly learned that his whole goal in life was to make more money.
When I first started working for him, another Utah man was [...]

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 [...]

By Greg Fullerton
One time, during a seminar I was teaching, a woman asked me to expand on the concept of needing to leave your comfort zone to reach a goal.
My response was sheer genius:
“Uhhhh…eeeyeah. To reach a goal you really, really, really need to leave your comfort zone.”
I’m pretty sure I got crowned the world’s [...]

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 [...]

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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One prevailing counterfeit of humility is self-deprecation, or thinking you have little or no value. But as Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale wrote:
“People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.”
Pride leads you to compare yourself to others and to derive your self-worth from things outside of yourself.
When [...]

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, [...]