What's going on everybody, welcome to the sheep kid sheared podcast.
We're here, we talk about people, politics of popular culture.
I'm your host, the one and only Austin Creed.
My friends, welcome into the morning show.
I know that this is going to be a little bit of a hard show to do and I'm going to be very
vulnerable with all of you on the show today.
And so I hope it doesn't come across as I hope this doesn't come across wrong.
I don't know how it's going to come across, but you know, in the morning show is supposed
to be motivational.
And that's exactly what I want to do for you this morning, but there's a different angle
that I want to take.
And you know, I was going to do the evening show last night.
And for some reason I was just having a really tough time last night.
And then I came to realize something that I thought needed to be said more in the morning
show because I thought it sat a little bit more with the morning show.
They might be asking what that is.
Well, I want to talk this morning about how to cope with sadness.
Sadness is something all of us live with.
I don't know of a single person alive who's avoided it.
I don't know a single person who's never told said the words that I feel sad or I feel down
today.
I don't feel right today.
Some things just off.
I know I'm not alone when I say those words from time to time, sometimes more than I would
like to admit.
But my friends, this idea of coping with sadness, there are burdens that all of us endure in
life, whether it's you endure with just a small bouts of sadness, or maybe you feel
absolutely depressed majority of the time.
And those take on the form of physical symptoms that can affect your relationships, your prospects,
your money, your relationships with the people that you love.
But I'm here to tell you this morning that if you're struggling with sadness, you're not
alone.
In fact, I would care to wager that all of us who are creatives, whether we're content
creators or not, we suffer with sadness quite a bit.
And sadness, if any of you have seen the Disney movie Inside Out, it provides a very infantile
level, entry level, I would dare say, of the emotions of the human condition that everyone
struggles with.
And it kind of gave a persona to an abstract idea.
But you know, I'm not going to review, I'm not going to go the movie step by step, I
don't carry off to do it.
But what I will do is discuss that sadness is often seen as a villain.
That seen as something that you must avoid at all costs.
Kind of like stress, where you shouldn't feel stressed, but then inevitably you end up
stressing about your stress, which then produces this downward spiral of complete loss.
And you're stressing about your own stress, it's kind of putting a hat on a hat and before
you know it, you don't know how you're dressed.
That's what it can do to you.
If you feel sad about being sad, that's the same thing as fearing your own fear.
I know I'm not alone with understanding these feelings.
But if you're struggling today with being sad and it's crippling your creativity, it's
crippling your next step forward, it's hindering you, it's paralyzing you, like snake venom,
you're not alone.
But regardless of whether you're alone or not, what I would encourage you to do is what
I tell myself every day, I'm going to take a step forward today.
I would rather trip and fall backwards two steps while trying to take a step forward
than stand in the very same place I did when I woke up this morning.
Why? because if I fall, my next job is to pick myself back up and now I want to run
upstairs not walk.
Versus if I stand still, I'm going to feel bad about standing still and I'm more likely
to question myself and repeat over and over again being stagnant and you cannot stay stagnant
for long before you start to sink.
And before you and when you start sinking before long, you suck to the bottom and then
you're going to feel bad about it.
It's a never ending spiral.
I can only end one of two ways.
One is you pull yourself out of it or two it puts you in the grave.
And I don't want this.
I don't I'd rather be the former than the latter.
If you've been paralyzed by the snake venom of life usually called stress stress is the
snake venom that paralyzes most people.
And let me tell you if you've been in that situation where your stress has been paralyzing
you take an own that because as soon as you do it grants you power over the sadness the
stress the instability whatever it is that you're suffering from this morning.
Once you own up to that it will help give you accountability and will help you cope
and not only cope it will help you reign in in your sadness like a wild horse being broken
nor to break the wild horse known as sadness depression anxiety stress whatever it's bothering
you this morning.
You have to take the courage to ride on its back instead of letting it run rickshaw over
your land the landscape and garden of your mind.
It takes accountability because avoiding your responsibilities as a disease and before long
it will infect your entire life and it will take you time to uproot and destroy that disease
before you gain the determination and the ability to truly move forward instead of just
dealing with your past.
I want you to know that if you see this as an insurmountable task Austin you're asking
a lot of for me this morning how the hell am I supposed to do all that?
Well my friends I asked myself the same question in fact more than I care to know sometimes
care more than I care to remember I've asked myself that very question how do I deal with
this why in the world would I bother doing it what am I do?
Well my friends I don't know the exact situation but what I do know is this I don't care if
you're 60, 16, 36 doesn't matter you can always always stop what you've been doing and start
something new.
All it takes is the will of a single man the will of a single woman that's all it takes
is for you to own up what you've been doing and take control of what you will do.
I know I make it sound very simple very straightforward and that's because that's exactly what it
is and the longer you push aside the reality of which I speak the more you will tread water
and before long your legs will get tired and you will sink and I don't want you to sink
I want you to stand and I want you to move forward and stride and run the race and win
but it doesn't matter what I want for you what matters is what you want for you.
I guarantee you I know some of you probably think this morning that all your problems
in life will be solved if you would just be handing money right whether the government
hand you money some mysterious relative you didn't know suddenly died and gave you money
and you think your whole life would be better you'd be set you'd be stacked you wouldn't
have to worry about it or stress ever again.
Well I'm here to tell you that if you believe that it's a sign of that you've never had
money because money brings with it more stress more problems and that is exactly why well
let me rephrase it like this let's say you're an aspiring farmer right you're not very
experienced but you have a desire to be a farmer and all of a sudden you find yourself
in charge of a vast array of different crops and land and animals that are all looking
to you as their farmer and it's your responsibility to take care of all of it but you don't have
any practical experience you don't know what you're doing you think you know what you're
doing but you don't that's the equivalent of you inheriting a ton of money or a ton
of assets that you didn't earn or that you didn't don't know how to manage it produces
a problem because before you know it you're going to be making mistakes and before you're
and it's not going to be necessarily because you have bad intentions it's going to be the
exact opposite it's going to be you don't have the practical experience.
My friends analogies help the world make sense it helps give flesh to these fictitious examples
or to these fleeting thoughts and I hope that that's what I did for you today.
My friends coping with sadness is no easy thing to do I know I make it sound easy and
that's only because I've had to deal with the the deepest darkest parts of myself and
I've come out of it not unscathed but scarred and it's because of that I can really speak
on this issue.
Those of you who don't know I was in a mental hospital for 28 days when I was in the military
and I learned a lot about myself I learned a lot about the mental health industry I learned
a lot over the course of that month and it's my goal to not just give people drugs but
to give them determination.
Now I'm not saying don't take doctor prescribed medication what I'm saying is I want you to
change your mindset I want you to adjust your mentality so that you can take control of
your life and not feel as though you are a passenger in the car that is taking you to
your future.
I want you to be in the driver's seat not in the passenger seat or even in the back seat
or God forbid in the trunk being taken against your will I don't want that for you but in
order for me to try to help you you gotta help me help you and in order to do that you
have to assess your life decide what it is you want decide what you've been knowing hasn't
been working what parts of it maybe have and what parts have not and you need to move forward
and of course you're more than welcome to listen to this show because every morning
I'm gonna be giving messages like this.
Now please feel free to let me know in the comment section or you can go over to ex
formally Twitter and find me over there at cheapkitsheared and for those of you who enjoy
this kind of conversation about self-improvement personal development it's my passion because
I've had to learn all these lessons the hard way and it is my goal that people learn from
my mistakes because learning the hard way is very very painful and I don't want you to
have to deal with that if you can avoid it and the best way for you to learn everything
that I have learned thus far is to pick up my book my manual my personal manual biblical
bachelor which I will leave in the description of the video or podcast you're listening
to that book I spent a lot of time doing a lot of research and I dive very deep into
the issues of personal development spiritualism making sense of the world so you can develop
your own personal philosophy for yourself I don't teach you what to think I merely open
your eyes to the realities of the world that might seem harsh unforgiving and something
you frankly didn't know you needed to hear but that's how I've learned to manage my
life at the old age of reaching towards my mid to mid to early 20s and I'm just getting
started I know I'm gonna learn a lot more as the days months hours and years come down
the pipe but it is my fervent wish that all of you learn from both my mistakes and the
people's mistakes around you so that you can get a head start in life because getting
ahead will help you be better than your father and your grandfather and will honor their
memory and every father wants a son who outdoes him or or even a daughter who outdoes and
they every father wants his children out do it that's that's the reality and it is my
goal in life to outdo my father and that's a very high bar frankly and so it is my wish
that all of you does the same and that's why I wrote the book that's why I do this show
because I want you to take responsibility for your life and be better than you were yesterday
my friends please let me know what you thought about the show today I hope it hits you very
close to home and I hope it inspires you to be better because that is my goal but in the
meantime my friends God bless you God bless your families God bless America have a fantastic
day and be better than you were yesterday peace.