Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Sheared Podcast where we talk about people, politics and popular culture. I'm your host, Austin Creed, and. You know my friends, I woke up early this morning. And I woke up at like 3:00 this morning and I just couldn't go back to sleep. You ever had those mornings where? You just wake up and you just and not wait to get started on the day. Yeah, that's how I started off the morning. But then as I kind of wanted to go back to sleep, but I couldn't, I kind of just laid there and I thought and my mind just started going crazy with all the distractions and and I was having a really hard time staying focused this morning. That's why I didn't do the show right away. My mind was just all over the place. So I I got out of bed. I went down to, you know, I started walking around campus. I got the coffee. I'm just walking around. I'm watching the sun slowly rise. And I thought to myself, my God. You know how hard it is to stay focused out here. This is why I preached discipline on the show all the time. It's so hard. Look, I'll be the first to admit, it's thou here, man. Yeah. Anybody who wants to achieve anything. It is tough. It is tough out here, man. Most people are oxygen thieves. Lionel do Jack. Most people are a little more than robots, like skin robots. They're literally nothing more than. Just factory issued robots, man. And now let's not to diminish their humanity in any way. I'm just telling you, man, most people are out here farming, feeling someone else's dream. They got next to no ambition. They boring they. They're just completely programmed in the system. They might as well have like, a charging port on the back of their heads and doing Jack, besides fueling A billionaires dream out here. And as a future billionaire, I'm telling you right now. Hey, look, you could like that if you want. Go ahead, laugh it up, because I'll be laughing when I make my first billion by 40. As I've been telling myself every day for the last couple of months. Almost a year. And look at how far I've come, man. And I said no, stop, man. Oh, here bragging brothers. I'm not out here bragging. I just want you all to know that you just staying focused out here. It's not always easy, OK? It's really not, frankly. If you can just stay focused. Every second of every day on what you're doing. Please share your secret with me because. I want to know. But you know. It's just like you're not strong it. People have this Miss notion that it it to be strong. You need to have no weakness. No. It's because of your weakness and fighting every day that makes you strong, strong. People have weaknesses. In fact. Arguably they have. More weaknesses than you. The differences. They fight it every day, and it's more of a callous than it is. An open cut or a wound. And so they are able to project the strength because they've mastered at least a part of themselves, if not their entire self. And that's the signal of strength in brothers. It's not out here pretending like you don't have weaknesses. I don't understand people who do that. It's it's, it's goofy. It's stupid. We all know you're lying. So that's why I'm not out here pretending like I don't have weaknesses. I'm I'm full of weaknesses, man. I'll tell you that right now. I am. Ohh yeah, I have tons of weaknesses. But I'll tell you something else. It's all about. Conquering and and sometimes you'll lose the battle. Frankly, you will. I almost lost it on battle last night, but I stayed focused. I pushed through it and I won. I will win the war. I just want to win more battles than lose, because that's what it comes down to. Brothers, if you're out here, if you have a goal in your life, you're already ahead of, like, 90% of people. Most people don't don't know what they wanna do, but they'll tell you what they're not gonna do. But they have no idea what the hell they actually want to do with their lives. Nothing 0. They look to other people to tell them what the hell to do or what they should care about or what they should do. Meanwhile, they're they're asking themselves why they're not like Andrew Tate or guy, you know, guy bills because a guy Bilzerian or Dan Bilzerian, whatever his name is, they want to pretend like they're him now. Oh, why don't I get all the all the girls and have all the cars and have the yacht? And all the and and the the six pack abs and all this stuff, it takes time, discipline and dedication to get those things. And ohh and good genetics too sometimes as well. Well, let's not leave that one out. Of the pot. But you know the morning show, unless you get cheered podcast, it's all about motivation. And in in my opinion also about accountability. I mean, motivation is great. Don't get me wrong, you need your daily dose of it every day. I need to give it to myself and I hopefully give it to y'all every day as well, but it's also about accountability, because sometimes we fall off the wagon brothers, let's be honest, OK? To be honest. Sometimes we fall off the wagon. Sometimes we made a mistake and it's not about saying. Well, I wouldn't. Have made that mistake. If someone hadn't done. This or if. Someone else hadn't asked me. Blank. No, no, no. It's all about your taking accountability for the mistakes that you make. That will help you stay focused, by the way, when you make a mistake, instead of blaming somebody else, cause when we tell you something, when you blame someone else for your problems. You rob yourself of the. Opportunity to grow. For example, let's say that I I hit up one of the girls in my roster, right? I tell her to come through, you know, I clapped and cheeks. Whatever. And then? I I forget to in my throbs of passion, so to speak, I forget to. Do the evening. Show or I I write the whole thing, but then I don't do it. You know it's. Really easy for me to wake up the. Next day and be like. Oh Dang, I didn't do it last night. What? Happened. Oh, it's all. Her fault if she hadn't distracted me. No, I can't do that. I said. Yeah, you know what? 

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Me, I should have handled business 1st. Instead I let my my hormones get the best of me. I made a mistake. So you know what? I'm just going to move forward and I'll do it tonight. I'll do it. I'll do the show tonight and I'll do that topic another. Yeah, it doesn't. Feel good to blame myself for stuff, but it's liberating to an extent as well, because then you accept accountability. You give yourself power over your own life, and in doing so, you don't become a victim. Of your own problems, you become the person who's gonna vindicate and avenge the problem. You give yourself the ability to say, hey, this was a learning experience. Let me learn from it instead of saying, oh, that *****, she distracted me. It's her fault. No, no, no. Again, that's one example. But I'm telling you, look, I'm not a perfect man. In fact, I'm a farthest thing from it. If you know me in real life. Or if you listen to this show long enough, you know I'm not a perfect guy. Nobody's perfect, but it's about accepting your mistakes that make you more likely to learn and not make those mistakes again. A little bit of a little bit of a side note. You know, I talked about on this show how I'm not perfect, right, talk about how they forget all it is, is stay focused how we want to stay motivated. It all comes down to developing your own personal philosophy. I discussed this on this show multiple times and I write about it in my book Biblical Bachelor, which is going to be released on the 31st, so only in a couple of days Can you believe that. Can you believe that? I've been talking about this for like the last month, if not longer and. It's coming out on the 31st. Honestly, I'm excited about it. It's going to be fantastic, but I'm telling you this for a reason. I'm not the same guy I was last year or even last month. You're always changing and sometimes you have to have your philosophy change with you and other times you got to plant yourself in the ground and say, hey, I can't allow myself to go there. I can't allow myself to make that mistake. Or make that adjustment because it's just not what's right for me. And there is no shame in that zero shame in that. But people want to make you feel bad about that kind of stuff. Don't let people have the power over you and you give them that power by the. Way it is. Impossible for someone to make you feel a certain way without your permission. I know it doesn't always feel that way. But when you look at it from a. Logical point of view. When you feel insulted, let me let me let me put a little perspective on this real fast. If I call you stupid. You're probably gonna feel offended, right? You're gonna be like Austin. I'm not stupid. What the hell is your? Problem I get it. However, when you respond to that, you are accepting that label on yourself, you know, and. And in that regard, I gotta give the ladies credit, because women are tend to be better at this than we are, by the way, as do as we tend to retaliate when the dude calls us something. Versus the ladies do it too. Don't get me wrong, however, they are better at saying, hey, I'm not going to accept that behavior from you. Hey, I'm not going to accept that disrespect. Or they're gonna say, hey, we don't. I'm not gonna let you make me feel that way. And that's obviously not all women, but they tend to do a better job of standing up for themselves on an emotional level and not accepting the brands that people give them. And in men, we need to learn from that. For example, if I if someone calls you a simp, right? That's not an insult. It is a check on you. It's not meant to be an insult. It is meant to be a. Hey, check your behavior. Cause you're doing something wrong. We want to bring this to your attention. Cause you're making a mistake. 

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That's how I see it. Maybe I assume the best in people, but it really doesn't have anything to do with what I think about them, and it has more to do with the fact that I don't care what people say. There's always a it could be a lot or next to know. Truth in what someone says it could be a nugget, or it could be an entire ingot. It doesn't matter. There's always. A little bit of truth and wisdom and what someone says to you. Something you could take away from that that will help you stay focused and will help you learning cause. You know, yesterday someone said something to me. That you know. It normally might have not been that impactful. Maybe it was just the fact that I needed to hear it and it was. It was extremely profound. And it was this. Did you do you realize that your vision of yourself when you look in the mirror and you see yourself in the mirror, you have a certain perception of yourself, right? Everybody has that but. When you realize that everybody around you, who knows you, whether they're close to you, whether they're just an acquaintance, makes no difference, they have a different version of you in their head that could be completely accurate or completely inaccurate. And I guarantee you it's different than how you see yourself. When you realize that you're going to likely overlook a lot of things that you get down on yourself every single day, for that might cause you to lose focus might cause you to really beat down yourself more than you need to do. I just thought that was incredibly profound and I'm sure that many people know that that's the case and it wasn't something I didn't know, but it was the way it was explained, something that I just found it so profound. Because it made me realize that we work so Dang hard in our reputation, we work so hard on keeping our image a certain way if we're. Art. But when you realize that people have a different version of you when someone say, for example, someone compliments you and you sit back and you're like what? I don't think that I'm good looking. I don't think I'm not, you know, funny or talented or whatever it is. They compliment you on most dudes don't get compliments, by the way. So when we do, we're a little taken aback by it. That's more of a girls get compliments all the time to the point where they complain about getting compliments. If you can believe. It but brothers, we don't get a lot of compliments even from other dudes. We don't get compliments. And if we we do, we're kind of taking it back. Buy it, but we might not even accept the compliment. Sometimes I'm really bad at this too. By the way, I am really bad at saying wow. Thank you. I really appreciate that. I'm usually like, yeah, you know, thanks. Whatever. You know, he had to say that or or she had to say that, you know, whatever. I just missed it because sometimes I just don't think it's true. So I dismiss it, but we need to accept these things by those stay focused out here. It is a marathon, not a Sprint, especially if you're a young guy. This is a marathon, you know, I used to get really down on myself, and that's something that's really helped me maintain my focus is realizing that, of course, you want to win the battle every day, but you need to be focused on the war, the long term. Sure. The short term is important at times, but the long term, the fulfillment is what you should be chasing. You know people were asking me earlier yesterday. Ohh hey Austin, what are you doing for Halloween? Dude, you go to some raging party. You gonna go live it up? You gonna go have fun or whatever? I thought to. That never crossed my mind cause my book is coming out biblical bachelor's coming on the 31st. I would focus on doing that. I would focus on doing the show. I would focus on doing my homework. I've been thought about going to a party and getting wasted trying to pick up chicks. I thought about doing any of that goofy garbage, but it was just weird because I thought about like, people don't see. The version of me that I see. Going back to what I just said, people don't see the fact that I grind my heart out every single day because I don't advertise it. I'll go around bragging about the fact that I'm gonna be a published author in like 3 or 4 days. I don't go around bragging about the fact that in four days I'm going to be a published author. I've all done over 200 podcasts. Episodes I can go around bragging about the stuff that I do. I'll walk in silence. And so when people see me, they see me as just everyday average do, which is fine. I don't need to be able to. See me in. This spend, you know this Oracle of wisdom and grandeur. I don't need people to see that, but it was just. It was a very interesting moment when I realized that people just kind of saw me as like a good luck. A good time, Charlie. Kind of. Dude, I thought to myself. It was. Profound because it it, I don't know. I sometimes forget that I'm human, as weird as that sounds, I sometimes forget that, you know, I'm a 23 year old dude who most people my age are getting drunk, getting high, trying to fornicate with every person that what they find attractive walking by. That they're not. Focused on the long term goals, most people, if they even ever see it, they see it like when they're 40 or in their 30s. They don't focus on the long term when they're young. I mean, who wants to deal with that most of the time, most of the time people don't think about the future that much. But that's why it's important to stay focused. To not worry about how other people see you, of course you want them to see you in a positive light. But don't get too. So don't get too consumed with the fact that people are gonna view on you who you view you. Sorry in a certain way. I'm I'm I drink some milk earlier. I'm getting a little congested. Oh, I think that's kind. Does it happen? Anybody else? Sometimes I get really congested. That drink, drink milk. I I know it's it's nutrition. I get it. But my friends, my voice is turning kind of go. So I'm gonna end the show here, but more of the story is if you're struggling out here with whatever you're struggling with, maybe it's something I talked about. Maybe it's something I didn't. You're not alone. You're not alone out here. We're all going to make it. This is a battle. And whether you win or lose the battle, we will win the war. Because we've come too far, we've invested too much to lose. My friends. God bless you. God bless your families. God Bless America. We're gonna win out here. Peace.