About a year after declining the global behavior-based safety position, the guy who accepted it visited our facility. I still don’t know if he had any idea that I was offered the role first but I distinctly remember him providing “constructive criticism” around several things we had been doing succe...
In our initial conversation about the position, the one with global responsibility for our corporate-wide behavior-based safety initiative supporting around 80 facilities, Tim shared that the salary range was initially listed as $63K to $75k. He followed that statement by immediately saying he felt ...
After surviving the painful near-foreclosure experience, Cindy and I put our heads down with an intense focus on climbing out of the hole it put us in. Outside our full time jobs, we continued to put every ounce of energy we had into growing our multilevel marketing business. That provided plenty of...
As I’ve wrapped up each step in this process of Making the Best of YOUR Bad Situations, I’ve closed with five questions geared at challenging you to mine your similar experiences for the seeds of equal or greater benefit - and I’m about to do that here as well. Before that, though, I’ll detail one o...
Having to choose between surrender and survival forced me to channel all the self-control I could muster and engross myself into the details of a definite plan for climbing out of the hole we found ourselves in after that near-foreclosure experience. I mentioned receiving a whopping $16 check as par...
That registered letter detailing the impending foreclosure wasn’t just another financial kick in the gut, it hit my self-image every bit as hard. To everyone else, things still looked great. We both had more career advancement opportunities than many of our peers and our MLM business was getting all...
From late 2005 to late 2007, Cindy and I dedicated nearly every waking hour that we weren’t working in our day jobs and invested every spare dime we could scrape up into the MLM business that had provided us with a glimmer of hope that we could someday climb out the ridiculous scarcity we had been b...
After what felt like beating my head against the same spot on a wall over and over and over again, for a couple of years, mastery of detail finally began to sink in. Disciplining myself to dig into those details, which is never a small order for someone with a highly DRIVEN behavioral style like min...
When the ripple effects of scarcity spill into every waking moment, there’s little choice but to begin sifting through every possible detail in identifying each contributing factor and the primary root cause behind it. Today, Cindy and I include components of the DISC Model of Human Behavior in near...
Earlier I mentioned some of the changes I made to avoid being around booze for the first few years after making the decision to stop drinking. In complete transparency, some of those changes weren’t all that difficult since buying beer and going to concerts both require money. Our financial resource...
Few stories illustrate the power of The Values Advantage better than Craig Johnson’s.
When Craig wrote the foreword for my book, he didn’t just share theory—he shared measurable transformation. After a decade as Chairman, President, and CEO of a super-regional insurance company, he doubled revenue,...
When Lane Jones agreed to deliver the midday keynote at our 2026 LeadershipLegacy Experience on June 12, I knew immediately we were gaining far more than a powerful speaker. We were welcoming a true partner in the next chapter of our work.
I first met Lane through Maxwell Leadership, where she prod...
