Episode Details

Jason and I get asked all the time, “How do you motivate them?”

The short answer is you can’t.

But there are things you can do as a parent and mentor to tap into their own desires and support their success while building your relationship in the process.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Why many common approaches don’t work.
• The common assumptions around why our young people perform or don’t perform how we would like.
• How to tap into long-term motivations.
• The four things to consider that go beyond motivation for why a young person may seem unmotivated.
• Why it takes a complete shift and not just trying something once or twice.

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• Give episode 63. Emotional Dysregulation and 28. When They’re Not Motivated for more help on this topic.

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