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Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Andy Andrews

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Andy Andrews
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: May 22
Author
Motivational Speaker
Orange Beach
Alabama
Goal
Kids
Become
Remember
Parenting
Children
Raise
Great
Raises
Greatness
Adults

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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change or that the way they change is they have to hit rock bottom. But neither of those things is true.
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And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.
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When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.
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You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.
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Then the old man's face hardened. What about you young man? he asked flatly. Would you like to get what you deserve? Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.
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I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
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Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?
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There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
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It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.
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If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.
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We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!
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Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.
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Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.
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I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.
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It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.
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To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.
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When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.
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Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.
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