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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Henry Cloud

Being right can never compete with doing well.
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Complete Right
Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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
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
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
Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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Morals Reality Religious
Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.
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Chance Couple Destroy Fake Live Reality Relationship
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
One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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Death Oneself Potential Worst
Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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Existence Freedom Love Operation Responsibility
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 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
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
There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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Anand Thakur
When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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Brain Follow Leadership People Result Well
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

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

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