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While It Is True That Most People Never See Or Understand The Difference They Make, Or Sometimes Only Imagine Their Actions Having A Tiny Effect, Every Single Action A Person Takes Has Far-reaching Consequences.

We're Not Trying To Raise Good Kids. We're Trying To Raise Kids Who Become Great Adults. That's A Very Different Thing. We All Know Parents Who Had Kids That When They Turned 18 Left The House And Went Nuts.

Keep Your Head And Heart Clear. Perspective Can Just As Easily Be Lost As It Can Be Found.

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.

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.