Live Life Wide Open is how I have lived my life. My name Is Mark Miller, this is my story and I’m stickin’ to it!

Of course all of us as newborns are learning something new everyday, everything is new to us, everything is interesting.

My parents told me when I was an infant my mouth was always open. I would eat anything, drink anything, try anything, always on the go always Wide Open!

As I grew older, life was always a race. How fast could I go on my bicycle? How fast could I ski down the hill? How fast could I run a mile? How fast could I get my chores done? How fast could I eat my dinner? How fast could I do my homework? Etc.

Later, in my teenage years, guess what I did with Dads car? I drove it wide open!! How fast could I drive to the next town? How fast could I outrun the local Police? How fast could I go around corners, how fast could I stop, how fast could I wear out a set of tires? Not a whole lot different than the younger years, mouth always open, drink anything and try anything. My friends always said "Oh *%^#$" when I said, “Here, hold my beer and watch this!”

Still, always on the go, always wide open.

After barely graduating high school I was wide open to the idea of new experiences, new places so once again, how fast can I get out of this town? Over the next few years I ended up traveling to a few different states experiencing new and different places, people and jobs. At 21, I ended up back in my hometown of Randolph, VT and my parents told me with great relief that only a few years ago they said to themselves “If Mark just lives until he turns 21 he will turn out ok.” I don’t know what they were thinking, but it was still life in the fast lane for me.

I drove a tractor-trailer truck for the next 8 years in 23 states. At that age and stage in my life, the freedom and wide-open road was the place for me. In 1986 with a growing family I decided to get off the road and start a business, Americlean. Starting the business was very time consuming, I was in a new element with a lot to learn. A lot just simply had to get done. I buried myself in the business. I just kept doing it doing it, doing it. It was life wide open all the time. Over the years, at times, it seemed out of control and I headed towards trouble.

To help, I used something I learned while aggressive trail riding snowmobiles in Vermont and Quebec. My friends and I rode wide open and many times were right on the edge of losing control. We all had near misses and the one thing we concentrated on if we started heading towards trouble, a tree, another sled or an animal was to focus on the way through and not to focus on the obstacle. If you focus on the obstacle guess where you’re going to go? Right at it! I learned to do the same thing in business and life. If you think there is trouble coming, focus on how to avoid it, don’t focus on the trouble.

As my business grew and my life became busier my wide-open approach didn’t always work. At one point I was like an out of control freight train. I was running over people’s feelings, I was squashing their ideas, I wouldn’t slow down enough to listen to anyone, learn anything new or consider how I was affecting feelings of others that were close to me in my personal and business life. Personally, I started spiraling downward, I ruined some relationships, I thought that people that were working for me were incompetent, I didn’t like going to work any more, revenue and profit dropped to an all time low.

Luckily there was a part of my mind that was still open. I got introduced to the worlds greatest inspirational, transformational, and motivational speakers and writers such as Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, T. Harv Eker, Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, Michael Gerber, Jim Bunch and Tony Robbins to name a few. I started reading their material and pretty soon I was travelling around the country listening to and participating in their programs. I met some wonderful people who taught me a different meaning of Living Life Wide Open. Not to far off from my infant years of being open to anything, curious, inspecting, trying new foods meeting new people seeing new places etc.

It was through having an open mind that allowed me to realize that it wasn’t my business that sucked, it wasn’t the employees that sucked it wasn’t the customers that sucked, it was ME. Being inspired by the worlds finest along with thousands of people just like me I was able to turn myself around. Thanks to the help of others, business is great, my kids and I get along better than ever, and my personal life is fantastic.

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What I have learned that living my life this way is a blast and better then ever!

I still live life in the fast lane but at least now I know where I am going!!