Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation.

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motivations. Slater. I'm on vacation this week. And I always have such high expectations

for my productivity during vacation. I was like, oh, I've way more time to do everything.

And just it just never happens.

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Today's morning motivation is a little bit different.

More of a dear diary edition.

I was going to do another thing, another topic.

But tiebreaker, I think, goes to the thing that's personal.

So we have four kids, six, five, three, and eight months.

And I think we did a really good job parenting from zero to five.

I think from an outsider's perspective, good kids, good parents, good parenting, good job.

We took a parenting course at our church from wonderful elders who have wonderful kids and we

just did what they did.

And it worked.

And I fell into a trap.

And the trap was with our first kid, Jack, he's six, thinking I could program him to be a certain way.

It's my big mistake with our first kid.

And if I just input this into the machine, then he will output as that. Make sense?

Do this, and then he will end up this. And that's just not how people are. And I've made a lot of

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