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Things don’t change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

Henry Cloud

A person who hasn’t grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
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Business Grief Person Result
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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Destroy Greatness Performance Relationship Return
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
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Attitude Build Communication Culture Expectation Honesty Performance
The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!
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Live Ourselves Pretend Sadness Sin
A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word ‘no.’ Love respects ‘no,’ control does not.
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Control Goodness Person Reaction Relationship Respond Test
You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.
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Attempt Growth Yourself
Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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Issues Person Problem Relationship Soft
You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
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Face Freedom Lose Order Right
Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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Anand Thakur
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
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Anand Thakur
A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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Anand Thakur
If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you ‘do’ boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.
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Boundary Breathe Experience Reality Remember Training Yourself
Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Anand Thakur
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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Built Disagree Freedom Intimacy True
The business of church is ultimately people. You’re trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.
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Anand Thakur
In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
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Anand Thakur

Things don’t change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

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