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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

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
Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.
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Dating is primarily a numbers game. People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That’s just the way it is.
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Date People Relationship Way
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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Change Decision Marriage Responsibility
Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other’s space and are champions of each other’s causes.
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Champion Each Other Health Partner Relationship
Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.
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Beyond Faith Feeling Reason Touch
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
Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
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Consequence Natural People Power Rescue
Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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Existence Freedom Love Operation Responsibility
Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.
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Being right can never compete with doing well.
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Complete Right
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
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
Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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Date People Place Practice
The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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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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You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school.
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Company Essence Leadership Reality School Way
Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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Break Up Date Value Worth
Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
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Day Horse Important Mess Thinking
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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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
Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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Boundary Essential Structure Thrive
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
You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.
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Attempt Growth Yourself

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