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It is true that you get what you tolerate.

Henry Cloud

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
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
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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Behavior Change Motivational Ourselves Pain
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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Anand Thakur
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
Being right can never compete with doing well.
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Complete Right
The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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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
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
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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Demand Life Mature Person
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
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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Anand Thakur
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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Anand Thakur
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
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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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