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When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.

Henry Cloud

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
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Anand Thakur
Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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Boundary Essential Structure Thrive
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.
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Children Fear Leave Pride Reaction Yourself
If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
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Follow Narcissism People Togetherness Trust
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Behavior Change Motivational Ourselves Pain
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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Anand Thakur
Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
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Endurance Goodness Growth Pain Resistance
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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Built Disagree Freedom Intimacy True
Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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Anand Thakur
Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as “Taking,” you are not getting it.
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Date Equality Yourself
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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Demand Life Mature Person
To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.
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Anand Thakur
Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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Morals Reality Religious
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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Anand Thakur
The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
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Fulfill Power Reality Relationship Virtual
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
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Greatness Metaphor Passion Recognition Season Time

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