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TRAINING
PASSION ANd WILL
Create limitless potential
Greg Fullerton
Live each day as if it is your last. Heard that one before? It’s not a bad motto to live by, but saying it
and doing it are two different things. Sometimes living our passions means going down roads we don’t
anticipate for ourselves.
Going to college was something Greg Fullerton said he grew up thinking was the thing to do. So when it came time to
go—he went. He lived in an apartment that was so small he could reach the bathroom from his bed. He worked at a gift
shop at the Airport Hilton scraping together barely enough money to get by.
“I came home one night to my little apartment—stressed out and in tears because I was so unhappy—and I remember
thinking so clearly that I was going to quit college,” Greg said. “I dropped out. You can imagine how that sounded to those
who loved me. ‘How can you drop out of college? You need to go to college—and you should.’ But it wasn’t for me.”
Then through a series of circumstances, Greg decided to start a company with others that would become Franklin
Quest, and later Franklin Covey. Telling his family he was starting a seminar company went over about as well as his
decision to leave college. It didn’t get easier from there. The guy who ran the company told Greg he would never teach
because he didn’t have the skills.
“I didn’t believe that, because I’ve been passionate my whole life about sharing what I felt, sharing principles I’ve
learned, getting in front of people, talking to people. I was very passionate about that,” Greg said. “Mike quoted a poem
today that I really love, ‘There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent, hinder or control the firm resolve
of a determined soul,’ There was no way I was not going to do this. But it was tough.”
Greg essentially spent the next nine years on the road. A typical week was spent in five different cities during the week,
back home on Saturday to pick up his shirts at the cleaners, and fly off again on Sunday. “It was brutal,” Greg said. “It
required a lot of sacrifice but I learned the power of passion through those hard times.”
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