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Make Life Easier by Training Your Children (and Spouse)

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1:50 What are you working on currently and what results have you seen?

7:30 What are power words? What does your future best self look like? Patient, optimistic, loving, playful, etc. Set your alarms with your power words and be strategic about when they go off.

11:45 The 28-day challenge is just a vehicle for us and our goals. The 28-day challenge is flexible.

17:48 Training! There's positive training and negative training. We all train ourselves and the people around us every day even if we don't realize it.

21:30 You are a person! "You don't rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your training." Training your kids is an ongoing process.

28:42 Book recommendations for family strategy. Excellence Wins and The Ultimate Sales Machine

32:15 What specific element of training are you most interested in? You train people how to interact with you! How to align family values to pursue shared dreams. How to stay consistent amid the chaos. Training kids to be self-disciplined and so much more!

35:50 Teach your children (even toddlers) to have -- and respect -- boundaries while still building connections. Maria Montessori and Glenn Doman

41:41 Are you intentionally training your children to launch into life? It needs to be a necessity for you to train them! Stop doing everything for your kids and start training them to do it themselves!

50:30 Starting with the big picture! The Denning Family Master Plan and how to create your own! You don't get what you hope for you get what you train for! Get a clear vision of what you want in life!

56:18 Look at your life right now and what are the irritations? What training can you level up to make those irritations lessen?

1:03:55 Some times of life are legitimately more difficult so adjust your expectations. Get really strategic about how you present leveling up to your children.

1:10:15 Create your ideal family schedule! Discuss how your family does stuff! Control of the internet in your house is a powerful tool. Are you regulating the distractions in your life? Create systems to reduce failure!

1:22:58 The Denning family contract. Your schedules will change throughout the years! Don't leave it to expectations. Your kids don't know what you've told them, they know what you've trained them.

1:28:10 Get really clear about what you want to train your kids! Be consistent with the training so that they see the results!

Resources mentioned:

The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family by Patrick Lencioni