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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Potential
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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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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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the who you are as much as the what of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
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Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.
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Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.
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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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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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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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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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Oftentimes, churches are started by an entrepreneurial church plant visionary whom everybody follows, but he's not following anybody. Even though he's accountable to a board, he's really not. Authority's a good thing, and if it's not forced upon you as a leader, then I suggest, strongly, that you go buy some.
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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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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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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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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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