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What's going on everybody? Welcome to the Shipcase shared podcast. We're here we talk

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about people, politics, and popular culture. I'm your host, the one and only Austin Creed.

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My friends, you know, I'm out of good time tonight. I actually went, I went mini golfing

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by myself. Now some of you might say, you lost it. That's pretty sad, man. You know,

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odd date? No, it ain't real odd date. I'm saving that for tomorrow. What I'm doing tonight,

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my friends. Look, if you can do things for yourself, then you must really not like yourself.

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I mean, look, at the end of the day, you need to be content with it yourself. They need

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to be happy doing things for yourself. If you're not, you're there's something wrong

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with yourself image. Self image is so incredibly important. I'm telling you right now, I just

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got done hanging out doing stuff by myself and it felt great. I didn't have anybody nagging

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me. I didn't have anybody that I felt like I had to impress or something. It was great.

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It was fantastic. Going out alone is a look, there is power and being alone. There's power

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and strength and solitude. It is so empowering, man. I'm telling you, most of you have never

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taken yourself out and done something fun. You're harm. Miss it out because it feels

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great. Now, I want to focus around this idea of rewarding yourself because we work really

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hard. I'm sure that if you listen to this show, you work hard. I don't know how you

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could listen to me. Stay in and day out. Talk about improving yourself, being better, leveling

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up, not being happy with where you're at. Always want to strive and be better and not

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be going against the grain, fighting, tooth, the claw, nail, wing, fang, anything you got.

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To level up and be better and become the best version of yourself. And so, you need to reward

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yourself. I know it's all too easy to go out there and just punish yourself. Trust me,

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I know. I do it sometimes. I was guilty of that for a long time and even still. Sometimes

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if I don't do enough, well, I felt like I didn't do enough in the day, which is pretty

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much every day. I'm very tempted to punish myself, but on the days that I do really

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well, I expect that of myself. I don't reward myself for going above and beyond because

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I believe that I should already be doing that. But let me tell you something. That is not

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how you would want your boss to treat you, right? You quit that job, right? Of course

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you would. But when you are alone and you're working alone, you are your own boss. So you

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gotta both be the employee and the boss. You gotta reward yourself sometimes. It's good

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for your mental health. It's good for your employee-boss relationship, which is toast

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just you. I know that might sound confusing and weird, but trust me, the lines get really

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claustrophobic and zigzagged when you're working alone on something, whether it's your

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content creator, you're trying to start a business getting off the ground, or maybe

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you're just self-employed and you're a freelancer. I don't know what you're doing, but you need

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to reward yourself when you're at the top of the pyramid, whether the pyramid's two

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feet tall or two hundred feet tall. It doesn't matter. You need to make sure you reward yourself

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and not just punish yourself. There's a carrot in the stick. You can't just be swatting

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yourself with the stick all the time, because then you're gonna hate yourself and hate what

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you're doing because it's causing you pain. Or it should be the source of your joy, the

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source of your empowerment, the source of your self-satisfaction. That is what should

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be happening. I'm so excited about this that I'm sometimes bumbling over my own words.

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I'm very manic right now. I'm extremely manic right now, and if it's ruining the show, it's

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coming out too much. My apologies. It's not my intention. But this is something I feel

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very passionate about, and I think will benefit every person listening to this show. If you're

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not rewarding yourself, you're going to burn out, and burn out will make you fall into

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a swirl of self-loathing and self-sabotage. And I don't want that for you. I want you

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to be better. I want you to be happy. But happiness, do you remember the saying that

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happy is where the, I think it's the happy is where the home is, or home is where the

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heart is? Yeah, your heart is inside you. You let it be your own home. Cultivate your

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own happiness. It all comes back to this idea of sowing and reaping. If you sow seeds of

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happiness, then you will reap happiness. If you sow little seeds of joy, self-reward,

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self-love, self-care, you will start to love yourself and be more happy. You'll have to.

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It's a law of nature. You will sow what you reap. If you can't just plant banana trees

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and then be mad when you get a straw, oh, you know, if you still like, oh, I want a

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strawberry bushes, but I planted bananas. How silly and ridiculous is that? That's the

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equivalent of somebody who's planting seeds of self-doubt, self-loathing, and then they

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wonder why they don't love themselves. See what I mean? You see how it makes a little

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more sense when you put it in terms that are more allegorical and they make more sense?

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Yeah. My friends, I don't want you to be self-loathing, feeling restricted, self-sabotaging, because

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you are your own worst enemy sometimes, but the worst is being your own incommensate ally.

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I've said that before, but I'll say it again. You need to not be your own incommensate ally

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if you're trying to get ahead, if you're trying to win in life, because if you're going against

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the grain already, you have to reward yourself somehow, because if you don't, you will really

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burn out. You're setting yourself up to burn out at a warp speed, and I don't want that

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for you. I want you to win out here. There's enough losers that you don't need to be one

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of them. Please listen to me when I tell you. You must, must reward yourself, because if

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you don't, you're setting yourself up for a world of discomfort and a very hard trail

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that's already hard enough. My friends, you need to learn to enjoy your own company. Silence

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is often the loudest thing you'll have to deal with, but it only gets louder the less

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often you hear it. So if you're not used to hearing it, silence, if you're not used to

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hearing your own voice or you're enjoying your own company, you're going to be coxially

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wanting to surround yourself with people that you might not even like that much, but you

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don't like yourself, so anybody's better than you. That's the mindset you're going to have,

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and that is not a mindset of a winner. That is a mindset of a drifter, and drifters lead

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to no wherevill. They have a first class ticket one way to no wherevill, to being broke, being

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unhappy, and being broken. Do you want to be broken, broke, or unhappy? I don't think

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so. So why are you setting yourself up to be in that boat? You've already booked a ticket

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on that boat, and what are you doing? How are you trying to get yourself to a better

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position? Because if you're not, you can't get mad if your life isn't going the direction

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you want, because you're not willing to step up and do it. You have control over your life,

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not me, not the government, not your parents, nobody, not your boss, nobody. You have control.

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You can delegate that control, but it's in your best interest to take it back for yourself,

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because if you don't, don't get upset. If you don't plant the seeds you want, don't

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get mad when the harvest is underwhelming or not what you want, and don't get mad if

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it's full of weeds, don't get mad. Take accountability for where you are so that you can be in a

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better position down the road. My friends, I really wanted to drive that point home.

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You need to learn to love your own company, and I really want you to love yourself, but

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I want you to be able to reward yourself and not just punish yourself when you mess up.

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You need to reward yourself. My friends, I think I made my point, and I know I'm really

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manic right now, so I'm not trying to follow all my words and really get myself out of

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my words. My friends, God bless you, God bless your family, and God bless this beautiful

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country. Not Joe Bynes America, this is our America. Take care of yourselves, peace.