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We have a terrific topic to cover today raising kids.

And oh, what a challenging responsibility that truly is.

Zigg and Gene have raised four kids so I can't think of a better person to talk about this

than our friend and mentor Mr. Zigg Ziggler.

I have had the privilege of knowing his kids over the years and they turned out great.

Zig has some helpful words of hope on this topic today and we'll listen together and enjoy.

I'll be back in a few minutes.

In raising positive kids, we are obligated. We are responsible to let them know that

the choice they make, every choice, has another bearing on something else. That's what I'm talking about. If I choose to be mean,

nasty, ornery, and ugly to you, you see, I've chosen to be treated any mean,

nasty, ornery, and ugly manner by you. If I go in your store and your

clerk is rude and thoughtless and inconsider it of me, my choice then is not to go back in. Everything has a choice, but it also has an end result.

Well, for 24 years of my life by choice, I'll wait well over 200 pounds.

Then a little over 13 years ago ago I got sick and tired of being

sick and tired. And I decided to get on an exercise and diet program. Up until then my idea

of exercise had been simply to fill the tub, take a bath, pull the plug, and fight the curate.

I mean, that was it.

Now that's not much of an exercise program anyway you cut it.

I never will forget the first day on my exercise program I ran a block, that's one.

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