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"Pruning is necessary, natural, and beneficial for anything that is alive.  We need it developmentally... and we need it in relationships and in business.  we need it when things are going well and when things are not going well; it is a natural part of life's seasons and a requirement for growth. "The premise that pruning is necessary but still notice that we have an emotional misalignment with that premise, we will struggle to realize our vision of the future and our potential.  But if you can become aware of your resistances and internal conflicts now, then you can begin to face them and work them through.  If you can become aware of your resistances and internal conflicts now, then you can begin to face them and work them through..."  - Dr. Henry Cloud in Necessary Endings Life requires pruning.  As we grow we have to let possessions and relationships go to make room for new experiences and relationships.  In school we move from gr...

"In business and in life, executing the three types of necessary endings...is what characterizes people who get results.  (1) If an initiative is siphoning off resources that could go to something with more promise, it is pruned. (2) If an endeavor is sick and is not going to get well, it is pruned.  (3) If it's clear that something is already dead, it is pruned.  This is the threefold formula for doing well in almost every arena of life. "The areas of your business and life that require your limited resources--your time, energy, talent, emotions, money--but are not achieving the vision you have for them should be pruned.  Just like an unpruned rosebush, your endeavors will be merely average without pruning.  And here is the key point: by average.  I don't mean on an absolute basis.  There is nothing wrong with being in the middle of the bell curve in many aspects of life, as that may be what success is for that person or at least that dimension of l...