MAXIMIZERS Principles

The proprietary Maximizers principles are foundational to all of Future Achievement International’s educational programs, products and services. These core character-centered, lifeskills principles have been extensively researched and tested in multiple cultures and languages worldwide.

Make Things Happen

Teaches pro-active habit development and personal discipline. This principle deals with eliminating a victim mentality and taking responsibility for developing the kind of discipline and new habits that lead to healthy thinking and job performance. This principle gives a person an understanding that they are in control of their own attitudes and actions.

Achieve Personal Significance

Teaches how to build a strong self-image. This principle deals with the development of a healthy self-concept. The process of seeing your innate value and significance is balanced with the development of humility and the proper handling of criticism.

Many personal conflicts and stress come from the improper view of oneself, which leads to an individual not maximizing his or her personal potential.

X-Out The Negatives

Teaches how to deal with fears, problems and other difficulties. This principle addresses what a positive attitude is and how to cultivate it in multiple areas of life. Negative situations can cause stress that can demoralize an individual’s performance. Stress and negative situations managed properly can be turned into positive experiences as long as one can identify the weakness exposed and then strive to overcome them.

Internalize Right Principles

Teaches how to live a value-driven lifestyle that reflects in work and at home. Learning to build a value system around foundational principles is crucial. Without such alignment the constant cognitive dissonance of wanting to do right, but not doing it becomes stressful mentally, emotionally, and physically.

March To A Mission

Teaches how to build a sense of personal vision, mission, and purpose for life. This principle addresses how to achieve the goals and vision that reflect in a person’s ultimate desire. A clear sense of mission has been documented by research over the years as vital for personal wellness and preventing mental and physical illness. People lose hope when they don’t have a sense of vision for their lives.

Integrate ALL of Life

Teaches how to develop personal balance in attitudes, priorities, and goals. When individuals get out of control and lose balance, they become highly susceptible to distress, anger, fear, depression and even burnout. There is a deep need to rebuild personal balance for individuals to maximize their productivity, overall job performance, and personal contribution to the team.

Zero In On Caring For People

Teaches how to listen, confront, empathize, and coach. Research studies are quite clear. Poor relationships (relational conflict) are highly stressful and lead ultimately to mental, emotional and physical illness. Clearly, the development of relational skills such as listening, empathizing, resolving conflict, anger management, and encouraging others is essential to total health and productivity.

Energize Internally

Teaches how to live a character-based lifestyle. People need to get back to this taproot principle of cultivating their character. As true character is developed, an individual becomes “in sync.” Our outward behavior begins to flow from our inward character. That is true health and is the ultimate power base for real wellness.

Realign Rigorously

Teaches how to make the necessary mid-course corrections and to deal with constant change. Most people are constantly trying to prove the illusion that “life is supposed to be easy.” This principle teaches people how to face the difficulties of life and how to make appropriate mid-course corrections. This learning process minimizes the distress of constant emotional and mental turmoil from worrying about problems.

Stay The Course

Teaches the importance of staying focused and not quitting on the important issues. The American Management Association has indicated that the most universal principle of successful leaders is that they just don’t quit. Those who succeed at healthy, dynamic whole lives fail often, but they fail forward. They learn how to stick with it and persist, focusing on the roots of building right principles into their lives.