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 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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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, [...]

By Mark Brown
We all know the saying “Money can’t buy happiness.” But if this is true, what are we all working for every day?
If I had enough money to buy a Rolex, or a Louis Vuitton handbag, or a Ferrari, wouldn’t I be happy? Maybe for a while, but in the end it’s just [...]

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 [...]

By Carl Woolston
You have a purpose — and it may not be what you think it is. In fact, you only see a small glimmer of the diamond that you are and the difference you will make.
Life is a path, which is only lit a few steps in front of us as we walk [...]

In a world of more than six billion people, it seems hard to believe that you can make an impact.
However, the 20th Century genius and social leader Buckminster Fuller shed some light on what one person can do.
He said:
“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do.
“Think of [...]