where did the name come from?
In November of 2006 the founder was a newly divorced, single dad with weekend visitations. As an entrepreneur, his business was not doing well, and finances were an issue when his children would come visit. Because things were tight financially, he took on a part-time job with a major retailer for the Holidays to pick up extra cash.
While there, the retailer requested all their associates to always respond to guests in a positive way and to say, “I’m outstanding” if asked how they were doing. This same retailer would hold sales for guests and call it “An Outstanding Sale.” Everything was always titled “Outstanding…” with the retailer.
After some weeks working for the retailer, he was so excited and thankful for having steady income and extra cash when his kids would visit, his perspective on life changed. He began to appreciate the little things and adopted an attitude that no matter what was going on in his life that it could be worse and he was simply thankful for where he was in life at that moment.
He remembered from the Bible that out of your own mouth you can speak life or death. Realizing that his words had power, he began to adopt for his personal life, the response the retailer required while working. Everywhere he went or wherever he was from then on, if people asked how he was doing, he would say, “I’m Outstanding… How ‘bout you?” And his response has continued to this day all these years later.
While speaking with someone on the phone back in 2007, he was asked at the beginning of the conversation how he was doing. As usual he said, “I’m Outstanding…. How ‘bout you?”, and the individual on the other end laughed and said, I’m going to start calling you, “The Outstanding Man,” and that’s how the name came to be.
