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.
HENRY CLOUDWhen leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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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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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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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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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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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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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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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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The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.
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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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Whatever’s happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don’t treat it like it’s the whole story. Keep writing the story.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it.
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If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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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Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other’s space and are champions of each other’s causes.
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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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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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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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Being right can never compete with doing well.
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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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