What's going on everybody? Welcome to the Shipcase shared podcast. We're here we talk
about people, politics, and popular culture. I'm your host, the one and only Austin Creed.
My friends, you know, I'm out of good time tonight. I actually went, I went mini golfing
by myself. Now some of you might say, you lost it. That's pretty sad, man. You know,
odd date? No, it ain't real odd date. I'm saving that for tomorrow. What I'm doing tonight,
my friends. Look, if you can do things for yourself, then you must really not like yourself.
I mean, look, at the end of the day, you need to be content with it yourself. They need
to be happy doing things for yourself. If you're not, you're there's something wrong
with yourself image. Self image is so incredibly important. I'm telling you right now, I just
got done hanging out doing stuff by myself and it felt great. I didn't have anybody nagging
me. I didn't have anybody that I felt like I had to impress or something. It was great.
It was fantastic. Going out alone is a look, there is power and being alone. There's power
and strength and solitude. It is so empowering, man. I'm telling you, most of you have never
taken yourself out and done something fun. You're harm. Miss it out because it feels
great. Now, I want to focus around this idea of rewarding yourself because we work really
hard. I'm sure that if you listen to this show, you work hard. I don't know how you
could listen to me. Stay in and day out. Talk about improving yourself, being better, leveling
up, not being happy with where you're at. Always want to strive and be better and not
be going against the grain, fighting, tooth, the claw, nail, wing, fang, anything you got.
To level up and be better and become the best version of yourself. And so, you need to reward
yourself. I know it's all too easy to go out there and just punish yourself. Trust me,
I know. I do it sometimes. I was guilty of that for a long time and even still. Sometimes
if I don't do enough, well, I felt like I didn't do enough in the day, which is pretty
much every day. I'm very tempted to punish myself, but on the days that I do really
well, I expect that of myself. I don't reward myself for going above and beyond because
I believe that I should already be doing that. But let me tell you something. That is not
how you would want your boss to treat you, right? You quit that job, right? Of course
you would. But when you are alone and you're working alone, you are your own boss. So you
gotta both be the employee and the boss. You gotta reward yourself sometimes. It's good
for your mental health. It's good for your employee-boss relationship, which is toast
just you. I know that might sound confusing and weird, but trust me, the lines get really
claustrophobic and zigzagged when you're working alone on something, whether it's your
content creator, you're trying to start a business getting off the ground, or maybe
you're just self-employed and you're a freelancer. I don't know what you're doing, but you need
to reward yourself when you're at the top of the pyramid, whether the pyramid's two
feet tall or two hundred feet tall. It doesn't matter. You need to make sure you reward yourself
and not just punish yourself. There's a carrot in the stick. You can't just be swatting
yourself with the stick all the time, because then you're gonna hate yourself and hate what
you're doing because it's causing you pain. Or it should be the source of your joy, the
source of your empowerment, the source of your self-satisfaction. That is what should
be happening. I'm so excited about this that I'm sometimes bumbling over my own words.
I'm very manic right now. I'm extremely manic right now, and if it's ruining the show, it's
coming out too much. My apologies. It's not my intention. But this is something I feel
very passionate about, and I think will benefit every person listening to this show. If you're
not rewarding yourself, you're going to burn out, and burn out will make you fall into
a swirl of self-loathing and self-sabotage. And I don't want that for you. I want you
to be better. I want you to be happy. But happiness, do you remember the saying that
happy is where the, I think it's the happy is where the home is, or home is where the
heart is? Yeah, your heart is inside you. You let it be your own home. Cultivate your
own happiness. It all comes back to this idea of sowing and reaping. If you sow seeds of
happiness, then you will reap happiness. If you sow little seeds of joy, self-reward,
self-love, self-care, you will start to love yourself and be more happy. You'll have to.
It's a law of nature. You will sow what you reap. If you can't just plant banana trees
and then be mad when you get a straw, oh, you know, if you still like, oh, I want a
strawberry bushes, but I planted bananas. How silly and ridiculous is that? That's the
equivalent of somebody who's planting seeds of self-doubt, self-loathing, and then they
wonder why they don't love themselves. See what I mean? You see how it makes a little
more sense when you put it in terms that are more allegorical and they make more sense?
Yeah. My friends, I don't want you to be self-loathing, feeling restricted, self-sabotaging, because
you are your own worst enemy sometimes, but the worst is being your own incommensate ally.
I've said that before, but I'll say it again. You need to not be your own incommensate ally
if you're trying to get ahead, if you're trying to win in life, because if you're going against
the grain already, you have to reward yourself somehow, because if you don't, you will really
burn out. You're setting yourself up to burn out at a warp speed, and I don't want that
for you. I want you to win out here. There's enough losers that you don't need to be one
of them. Please listen to me when I tell you. You must, must reward yourself, because if
you don't, you're setting yourself up for a world of discomfort and a very hard trail
that's already hard enough. My friends, you need to learn to enjoy your own company. Silence
is often the loudest thing you'll have to deal with, but it only gets louder the less
often you hear it. So if you're not used to hearing it, silence, if you're not used to
hearing your own voice or you're enjoying your own company, you're going to be coxially
wanting to surround yourself with people that you might not even like that much, but you
don't like yourself, so anybody's better than you. That's the mindset you're going to have,
and that is not a mindset of a winner. That is a mindset of a drifter, and drifters lead
to no wherevill. They have a first class ticket one way to no wherevill, to being broke, being
unhappy, and being broken. Do you want to be broken, broke, or unhappy? I don't think
so. So why are you setting yourself up to be in that boat? You've already booked a ticket
on that boat, and what are you doing? How are you trying to get yourself to a better
position? Because if you're not, you can't get mad if your life isn't going the direction
you want, because you're not willing to step up and do it. You have control over your life,
not me, not the government, not your parents, nobody, not your boss, nobody. You have control.
You can delegate that control, but it's in your best interest to take it back for yourself,
because if you don't, don't get upset. If you don't plant the seeds you want, don't
get mad when the harvest is underwhelming or not what you want, and don't get mad if
it's full of weeds, don't get mad. Take accountability for where you are so that you can be in a
better position down the road. My friends, I really wanted to drive that point home.
You need to learn to love your own company, and I really want you to love yourself, but
I want you to be able to reward yourself and not just punish yourself when you mess up.
You need to reward yourself. My friends, I think I made my point, and I know I'm really
manic right now, so I'm not trying to follow all my words and really get myself out of
my words. My friends, God bless you, God bless your family, and God bless this beautiful
country. Not Joe Bynes America, this is our America. Take care of yourselves, peace.