Ten Decisive Steps to
Motivating your Delinquent Teen to Action
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ACTION TO PRECIPITATE REACTION
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Do something great.
Set a goal to accomplish something that your teen will notice and
appreciate about you and want to replicate, not necessarily the same
action but a great action of their own.
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Project an attitude
of positive optimism that can be rubbed off on your teen.
If they see you continually motivated and optimistic and always
moving towards a goal or action, chances are that they will want to
follow you and they too will become motivated and optimistic.
An optimistic person is goal oriented and can always achieve
greatness.
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Pursue a worthwhile
purpose or goal and inspire them to pursue their own.
Motivate them towards a positive and rewarding cause.
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Start something and
motivate your teen to start something of their own or to build with you
by letting them know that whatever you start will go as a legacy to them
should they start something of their own or build on what you’ve
started. You’ve often
wondered why the children of the rich are more focused, more likely to
go to college and more likely to stay out of trouble.
Well the answer is they are often motivated by what their parents
have started and the legacy they will leave behind. They are inspired by
who and what their parents are and want to emulate that.
Success begets success.
Success emulates success.
Model success and our teens will want to model you.
Essentially whatever action you want your teen to have a chain
reaction from, whether it be charitable, voluntary, upward mobile
achievement, educational success, discipline, morals or leadership
skills, the essential action to get a chain reaction is to model
whatever it is you want your delinquent teen to achieve.
So, start something.
STEP FOUR
FLOODING THE HOUSE
What is flooding the house?
The principle behind this is that if the house is flooded, then
everything within the reach of the waters will be saturated with water.
Therefore flood your teen’s mind with tangible evidence of
success or with whatever it is you want to use to motivate them to
action.
FLOODING STRATEGY
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If financial success
is the kind of action you want to motivate your teen to, then flood them
with examples of young starters achieving financial success, through
reputable means.
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If you want to
inspire action where education is concerned, then flood your teen with
inexhaustible evidence of the benefit of a sound education.
Be creative when you do it.
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If you want to
inspire positive social action, then flood them with good examples of
successful social action.
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If its morality,
then flood with examples of the benefits of taking the moral stance.
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If you want to
motivate them to give up drugs and alcohol, then flood them with the
benefits of having a healthy mind and body.
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If you want to
motivate them to lose weight, then flood them with beautiful examples of
the desired weight pattern you wish them to emulate.
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If you want to
inspire discipline, then flood them with beneficial examples of
maintaining good discipline.
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If you want to goal
directed action, then flood them with the benefits of setting and
achieving successful goals.
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Whatever action you
wish your teen to take, flood them with successful examples of such
action previously taken.
Just keep flooding them with active examples and show them how they can
benefit if they should take similar action.
The issue with flooding is that they become saturated and start
to look and feel and will eventually act like the examples they’ve been
flooded with.