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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get sheared podcast home of people, politics

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and popular culture.

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I'm your host Austin create I want to welcome you to the show.

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So recently, I've been spending some time away from my normal routine.

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And you know, it's really interesting to me when I don't know if you're anything like

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me, but if you've ever been taken out of your element, your philosophy, your approach on

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life can be difficult to insert into every circumstance when you're outside your normal

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element.

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Because you can often get ambushed by things you wouldn't expect.

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You can get ambushed by situations by people, by even circumstances from your past that

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can make it difficult to continue forward onto the path that you have been walking on

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for the last couple months, weeks, even years.

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If you're anything like me, you found yourself with the cross out of crossroads.

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Every so often there's a crossroads and a fork in the proverbial road, this proverbial

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cross or fork in the road, the left will lead to your mind to the logical choice, and the

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right will lead to your heart and emotional choice.

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Now I'm here to tell you from personal experience that emotional decisions will often feel right

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in the moment, but they often lead you down a path of short term thinking and often toward

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dead end or even worse off a cliff.

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On the left, you'll think, but you'll feel as though you made the wrong choice.

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But in the long run, you'll think to yourself, I made the good long term choice.

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It wasn't, didn't always feel good, but I made the smart long term choice that led me

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to a better situation.

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My friends, what I just described is taking the safe route versus taking the route that

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is least traveled.

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In the current world we live in, the traditional ways are not always the right.

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In a law class that I took this last semester, one of my teachers brought up a really interesting

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point and he used to be a judge.

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He's been a lawyer for years, one of the smartest men that I've met.

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And he brought up how tradition is often there and not many people question it.

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If you ask someone, oh, why is X, Y, or Z a tradition?

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A lot of people can't tell you why.

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They just know that it's a tradition.

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That's why in Rick and Morty, for example, Rick says, well, traditionally traditions are

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an idiot thing.

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You know, obviously his statement is a little more provocative, but the result is the same.

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I believe the untraditional route to be the one that is most livable.

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You're able to actually live it out every day.

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Living for an idealistic perspective will only lead to despair, self-loathing and disappointment,

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in my opinion.

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Now, that's not meant to say you don't hold yourself to a high standard.

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However, let me ask you something.

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How often do you get down on yourself?

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How often do you think to yourself, man, I did that wrong or I'm really, really disappointed

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in myself.

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How often do you find yourself being your own worst critic?

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Well, my friends, if that's you, well, you're not alone.

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But you have a choice.

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Do you want to continue down that road or do you want to say, hey, I'm going to be a

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little more realistic with my goals so that I can accomplish them?

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Then I could set new ones.

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Just like Flynn Rider said, entangled, he said when he and he and Rapunzel were having

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a conversation about dreams and she says, well, what happens if my dream comes true?

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And she says, and he says, well, that's the best part, I guess.

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You get to make a new dream.

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And my friends, a lot of you, I'm not experienced that.

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I've experienced it on a minor scale, but I want you to experience this too.

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Now, I know some of you might think I'm full of it.

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I'm just here to make a buck, whatever it is.

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You know what?

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You can think what you want and you're entitled to your opinion.

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But I want to give you this game for free because this can change your life.

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You have a philosophy that you want to follow that's not traditional and maybe a little

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off the beaten path, you're afraid to branch out, be yourself.

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Don't be afraid to be yourself.

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There are people out here who are very unapologetically themselves.

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And even though a lot of them I completely disagree with, I respect their ability to

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say, hey, I'm I know who I am.

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I'm not going to apologize for it.

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I respect that.

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It's very respectable, by the way.

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But my friends, if you have an untraditional mindset, if you're trying to bring together

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the hot and the cold of philosophic ideas, or if you just want to live and be who you

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are and stop having to justify, be defensive or apologize for who you are or because you

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think other people want you to be a certain way.

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You know, I care about people's future.

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I care about your future.

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I don't care about the haters future.

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I would like to think that they will wake up to see that hating gets you nowhere.

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But loving people and wanting them to be better can lead them to places beyond their wildest

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imagination.

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That's what being a biblical bachelor is all about.

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It's about living the realistic mindset, living in a way that is best for you, but you so

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that then you're able to take people along with you who want to take the same step forward.

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That's what I want for you.

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My friends, life is a marathon.

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I see too many people trying to live their life like a sprint, trying to make a quick

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buck, trying to make results happen quick, trying to get in shape fast, make money fast.

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This is not how life works, my friends.

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And if it is, you're either doing something illegal, unethical to the wildest extreme,

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or you're doing something that's going to hurt you in the long run to the point where

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you have a net deficit, not a net positive.

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My friends, I'm not trying to sit here and tell you who you should be or what you should

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do.

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I'm just one man who's trying to speak from his soul, speak from his heart to help you

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make better choices than I have made.

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Every day I wake up and I think to myself, how can I help other people today?

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How can I share with other people what I wish I had been told?

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Or what came to me?

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Not because this is about me, but because I want to help you.

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You know, it's sad to me when I look at people who are just in it for a quick buck and who

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are just there to make money.

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Of course, money is great.

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Everybody needs money to live.

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I have very high monetary goals in my life, but I will never try to make money off of

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screwing somebody over.

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I would never want someone to do that to me.

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And part of being a biblical bachelor is following the golden rule, saying that I want to treat

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other people the way I want them to treat me.

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So why would I treat someone else like crap if I don't want to be treated like crap?

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My friends, if you have an untraditional idea, a philosophy, I encourage you to start your

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own podcast, start your own YouTube channel, search your own blog or vlog or whatever you

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want.

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That's what I did.

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Because I love talking about being a biblical bachelor and doing what I'm doing out here.

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You don't have to agree with me.

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You don't have to like what I do.

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And I encourage you to try to find a hypocrisy in my message because you won't find one.

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My friends, I want to encourage you to take the step.

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Content creation is where the game is at.

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I've never been happier in my life than doing this show.

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And that's partially because of your help and your assistance in the show and listening

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to the show and giving me feedback and everything, which I love.

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But even if nobody listened to the show, I would still do it.

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My friends, I want you to be able to live unapologetically who you are.

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Now, you need to be aware that most people will not like you for it.

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This is an unavoidable fact of reality.

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But you should not let that sway you.

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You should not let the opinions of others sway you.

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If anything, they should encourage you.

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Never let the haters be a reason why you should be a have not in life.

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My friends, I want to encourage you every time you step forward to that fork in the

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road between making a logical decision and an emotional decision.

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I want to encourage you to make the logical one because the emotional one will lead you

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down the path of immediate gratification and eventual despair versus the one on the left

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will take you down the road of fulfillment and not excitement.

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But that is how you win in the long run is playing the long game, not the quick game

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for a quick buck.

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You don't sprint the marathon.

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You run it.

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You walk it sometimes, but you keep moving forward.

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My friends, I want to I hope this encouraged you today.

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God bless you.

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God bless America.

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I'm out.

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Thank you.

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God bless America.