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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheepgid Sheared podcast.

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We're here to talk about people, politics, and popular culture.

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I'm Rose, the one and only Austin Creed.

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My friends, I come to you this morning a little later than I normally do.

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And there's a reason for it.

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You know, the morning show recently has become more motivational and more inspirational.

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And for that, I'm actually very grateful.

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The reason I'm grateful for it is because there's a lesson that I learned back when

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I was in high school.

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I'll tell you a little bit of a personal story today.

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I don't usually make it too much about myself because I don't want to make anybody uncomfortable

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or see them as though I'm hijacking the overall conversation.

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But I believe this to be very prudent and I think it's going to be very important.

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So here's what I want to tell you.

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When I was in high school, back in high school, I went through the suffering of young worth

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or phase and arguably I'm still in it now.

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But I would care to venture that every younger man, especially young women have this too,

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but it's hard for me to speak from the woman perspective.

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So I'm not going to do it.

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What I'm going to do instead is I want to say young men, especially ones that are more

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junior high age, I think is when it really starts to kick off.

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They'd feel as though they don't fit in.

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Everybody feels this sense of I don't belong anywhere.

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I feel as though everybody else belongs somewhere I don't.

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Now that's a very dangerous, very dangerous thing because children are a lot like animals

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because animals have this sense of hierarchy.

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And while we have the same thing in the adult world, it's very hidden behind a curtain.

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Everybody knows it's there, but it's not so blatant in your face, something you cannot

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escape from every second of every day.

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And when I was in high school, I felt very trapped in who I was because I felt as though

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I didn't belong anywhere.

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Now I would soon come to know later on a couple years down the road where I am now that there

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is strength in being strange.

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There is strength in being different because the pack is many things, but correct is usually

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not one of them.

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The pack serves to sedate the creativity of the individual, creating this hive like mentality.

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Now I didn't know that back in the day.

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I just didn't want to be weird.

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I wanted the girls to like me.

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I wanted the guys to respect me.

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And I wanted to be that guy.

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You ever see those high school movies about the kid who's kind of dorky, kind of goofy?

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The movie probably happened in the 80s.

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And he goes from being a zero to a local hero, whether it's he dates the most popular girl

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in school, he makes the football team, he becomes the party animal, he throws out last

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great party of the summer, you know.

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There's always something when it comes to relating to the person who's on the bottom

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who rises like the cream to the top.

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My friends, that notion never goes away, that mentality never truly vanishes.

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And I'm here today to explain that if you want to always win, you have to be willing

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to sacrifice your loss or even your prior winnings.

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Always move forward because you are either moving forward or backwards.

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If those of you who think that you're just treading water, you know, you're just holding

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your ground.

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No, you're not.

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You're losing ground because while you're loo, while you're quote treading water, someone

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else is gaining on you.

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And you know, a couple of days ago, I did a show about kind of reverse, playing reverse

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psychology and explaining to you what I wanted you to do in reverse.

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You know, I wanted you to be overweight.

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I wanted you to be lazy, that kind of thing.

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I'm going to start doing that more.

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I think I might do it once or twice a week because it's something.

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It's a little dose of tough love.

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And tough love is something that I believe to be very valuable and very important.

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For those of you who don't know, I'm a realist.

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And when it comes to being realistic, you need to peer behind the curtain of reality sometimes,

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not too much at one time.

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Because when you do that, you will not be able to handle what you see.

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And even if you're able to handle it, you won't accept it.

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You won't actually keep it, let it marinate and let it affect your worldview.

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You'll simply just say, no, no, no, no, I refuse to accept that.

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You ever said that in your life?

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Where are you saying, no, no, no, I refuse to accept that.

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You're not saying they're wrong.

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You're not saying that what they said has flawed in any way.

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You're just saying you don't want it to be true.

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That's an example of someone who's moving backwards now forwards.

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I've brought forward this notion on the show before that it is the duty of every person

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to be rich.

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And number two, that it is a sin to be poor.

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If you have a poor mindset, if you are someone who thinks that being poor and being broke

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are the same thing, you're wrong.

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Poverty is a state of mind, as is being rich.

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In the same way that if you sow strawberry seeds, you will get strawberries.

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If you sow lack limitation, self condescending, self sabotage, that is exactly what you're

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going to get when the harvest comes around.

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This idea of always moving forward does not mean you ignore the past.

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It doesn't mean that you don't learn from your mistakes.

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In fact, the opposite is true.

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You learn from your mistakes to move forward because that doesn't make them a mistake.

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It makes it a lesson.

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In order to move forward, though, you'll be able to move forward a little bit, but there

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will be a threshold that you will be unable to pass.

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Will you accept the fact that you must sacrifice?

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You must sacrifice.

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Do not protest this reality.

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You must sacrifice.

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Now whether it's you sacrifice staying up late, you sacrifice having a lot of sex, you sacrifice

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watching a lot of TV, you sacrifice going to the club, sacrifice having a lot of sex,

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acquaintances and friends.

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There is something you can sacrifice.

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Sacrifice going out to eat.

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Sacrifice maybe if you smoke any kind of drugs or do anything else, you need to keep yourself

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on the straight and narrow because you're sacrificing.

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You must sacrifice on the altar of success.

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Because if you think you're going to get everything for nothing, that's not how it works.

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Just as you cannot earn interest if you don't first give the bank money, you cannot earn

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if you sacrifice and give up nothing.

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There is a saying, I don't think it was Ben Franklin, I don't know who it was frankly,

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but there is a saying that there are only two types of people in the world.

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Those who pay interest and those who earn interest.

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In order to earn interest, you must first give something up, put money in the system.

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You cannot earn interest if you are not willing to sacrifice or give up anything.

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You have to move forward.

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If you want to develop yourself, if you want to improve yourself, if you want to build

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this great vision of who it is that you want to become, you must sacrifice.

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You must be able to move past your mistakes, move past the things you're not proud of.

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Because if you're not willing to do that, you're not willing to sacrifice the past to

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gain the future.

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I hope this message reaches you today because at the end of the day, I don't want to come

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across as being too too preachy this morning, but I have these types of conversations with

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myself every morning and that's why from now on I want to start doing them more often.

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Even when I question myself as to maybe this is too intimate, maybe this is too much for

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people to handle, I think it's something that needs to be said.

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My friends, God bless you on this beautiful day.

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God bless your families, God bless America.

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Go out there and conquer the world.

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Take what you can and give nothing back as Jax Barrow said.

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Alright, take care, I love you all, peace out.