Max Living

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 [...]

By Greg Fullerton
I’ve written previously on the importance of identifying your values through conscious introspection.
But not only is it important to identify your values, but you must also prioritize them.
In the classic movie “Chariots of Fire,” the protagonist Eric Little had three values: his religion, his love for his country, and his love [...]

By Mark Brown
Eric Hoffer wrote,
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
So how does one constantly learn?
Transformational learning starts with introspective curiosity. The most useful knowledge a person can gain is a knowledge of [...]

By Mike Larkins
One of my favorite poems is “A Fence or an Ambulance” by the 19th Century poet Joseph Malins.
Read it closely and see how it applies in your life:

“Twas a dangerous cliff,” as they freely confessed,
Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant;
But over its terrible edge there had slipped
A duke and full [...]

The two most fundamental commodities everyone has are time and money.
Interestingly, very rarely do we have them both at the same time. Usually we have a lot of time and no money, or a lot of money and no time.
The key is to optimize the balance between the two.
And how do we do [...]

In his essays on Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote something that has always stuck with me:
“In the world, it is easy to live after the world’s opinions. In solitude, it is easy to live after one’s own. But the great man is he, who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness [...]