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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.

Henry Cloud

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Adjust Fools Himself Truth
Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it.
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Anand Thakur
You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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Encourage literally came from “in courage.” The courage is put “into” you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
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Character Courage Encouragement Growth Ourselves Possession
You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.
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Attempt Growth Yourself
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
A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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Angry Control Fact Frustration Ourselves Reality
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
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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Anand Thakur
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
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
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Anand Thakur
We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we’re going to need the next day.
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Better Creation Day Feeling Need
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
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Active Culture Group Immunity Infection System
There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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Anand Thakur
We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.
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Ourselves Talk Thinking

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