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Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Light the Fight patron edition.

Now, in this Patreon edition, I probably will post this on the regular Light the Fight feed as well,

just to give you patrons a little heads up if you see it come up on the normal podcast feed.

And the reason is because I got basically the same question from a Patreon that I also got

from someone on Instagram because we posted a little question like Ask David some questions thing.

So the question is, well, it was from the patron person and from the other person,

is basically asking about school and generally how to get your kid motivated to go to school.

Now, there wasn't really a lot of context in either of the questions more like,

hey, my kids, you know, been lazy during the winter

time, doesn't really want to go to school after the Christmas break. How do I'm going to go to

school? The other one was like, how do I get my kid to be motivated to go to school? So I'm

going to do my best to answer a general question. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't mind the

general questions, but the general questions, I have to, like, make a lot of assumptions, or I just have to speak really general. In this particular question, I'm going to

speak pretty general. Motivation is something that is difficult to have, and it leaves us pretty

quickly. I heard an example one time, motivation is like kindling for a fire. you need the kindling right just got to get some

sticks together put them up in a little tp maybe put like a piece of paper or something like that in

there not saying that that's best for the environment but i'm saying these are some ways to get some

kindling going for a fire once you get the kindling going everybody knows you got to have some sticks and then some other sticks and then once you get the kindling going, everybody knows you got to have some sticks and then some other sticks.

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