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What vs. How

Effective communication is at the heart of a healthy family life. Financial well-being, marriage, and the success of children are all related to your level of communication skills. The vast majority of teenage misbehavior and marital frustrations can be solved with effective communication skills.

Communication skills are not passed through your DNA like red hair. They are skills that are studied, learned, and mastered. This is a life-long process that doesn’t stop with learning a singular tool or concept. The process requires constant attention and practice.

Try Different not Harder

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The Definition of Religion

The Definition of Religion

Inherit within each of us is a desire for happiness. I also believe that every person born in the world is born with a spark of light that is good, moral, virtuous and honest. Environmentally we are conditioned to want wealth or comfort which is a positive drive if done under correct principles or as the Founder’s explained it, religiously. Although our world is vastly different from 200 years ago it is yet identical.

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6th Principle of Sound Government

6th Principle of Sound Government

All men are created equal.

One of the self-evident truths Jefferson wrote into the Declaration of Independence is that all men are created equal.

To clarify the meaning behind equality, it is accepted that all men are not literally equal in any manner.  We are all different at birth.  Some are born with greater athletic skills and some are born more intellectual.  Some are born with social status while others are born into poverty.

In other words, sometimes the difference stems from innate skills and other times the difference stems from environmental causation.

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5th Principle of Sound Government

The 5th Principle of Sound Government

God created all things.  Mankind is fully dependent upon Him and to Him they are equally responsible.

The Founders vigorously affirm through their writings that the foundation of all reality is the existence of the Creator.  John Locke expressed the thinking of the Founders in his famous Essay Concerning Human Understanding.  Locke writes that it defies the most elementary aspects of reason and experience to presuppose that everything in existence developed as a result of fortuitous circumstance.

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2nd Principle of Sound Government

2nd Principle of Sound Government

A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.”

Benjamin Franklin wrote the following during the heated debates for Independence:

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

That is a very impending statement. The existence of a master indicates there is a servant or slave to that master. A modern historian summarized the 18th Century American citizen’s understanding of morality as:

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