Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared podcast, Home of People, Politics
and Popular Culture.
I'm your host, Austin Creed.
I want to welcome you into the show.
Well, friends, I hope you had a great Christmas.
I hope that you're enjoying the Christmas season as we head in towards New Year's.
You know, at the end of my semester that I finished at college recently, I challenged
myself to go back into monk mode.
I have no stranger to monk mode.
I've been in monk mode before.
I was in monk mode for 90 days several months ago.
That was arguably about the same time that I started writing for the first time.
I started drawing up plans for the show that you're now listening to.
That's a couple hundred episodes in.
I found out a lot about myself in those 90 days, but it was extremely tough.
And now that I'm back in, I'm about two weeks back in the monk mode again.
I realize that if you've never read Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill, my friends, you
are severely missing out because let me tell you something, sexual energy is the most primal
energy you will ever experience.
And there is a lot to be gained by transmuting that energy, but it takes tremendous levels
of discipline.
So my friends, that's what we're going to talk about today is staying in monk mode.
The journey continues.
The journey is the hardest part.
The first couple days, even the first week, week and a half, those are probably going
to be the easiest times because you're excited, you're motivated, you're distracted most likely,
you're pouring yourself into your work.
Let me tell you something, around the beginning of the second year, the second week mark,
that's when stuff gets tough.
That's when things get hard.
And if you are struggling, you're not alone, but just know something.
Ask yourself this one question.
Why did you enter monk mode in the first place?
To keep yourself going, you need to understand and remind yourself why you're doing what
you're doing in the first place.
Those of you who don't know what monk mode is, monk mode is putting aside women, it's
putting aside alcohol, it's putting aside the marijuana if that's what you partake in.
You put aside the distractions and you engage with what you are trying to accomplish.
That takes tremendous levels of discipline.
And guess what?
The hardest part is the beginning.
The beginning is hard, but it's also, it's complicated.
It's different for everybody.
Let's just get that out of the way.
But if you're trying to stay in monk mode and you're finding it really, really hard,
I'm right there with you.
Let me tell you something, despite the fact that I'm just visiting with family, despite
the fact that I've done this before, it really doesn't get all that much easier.
I have distractions hitting me up.
I have girls trying to hit me up.
I have just, you would not believe how easy it is to access fron.
It is unbelievable to me.
Again, if you want to be average, then be like the average schmuck.
But if you want to be extra ordinary, then you have to be willing to do things that are
outside of the ordinary.
And most people are going to be weak.
They're going to partake.
They're going to indulge.
But you have to stand firm.
Why did you enter monk mode?
And if you're not in monk mode, maybe you should be.
Ask yourself, are you happy with where you're at?
Do you think there are things in your life strapped through you, trying to pull you aside?
Because there's no shame.
There's no shame in admitting that.
There's only shame in holding yourself back.
There's only shame in limiting yourself if you think you can't do it.
I accomplished a lot in my last monk mode period.
And I know I'm going to accomplish even more this time around.
But it takes dedication.
It takes time.
Just like a farmer has to wait for the seeds he has sown to bear fruit to rise up from
the ground and grow.
That is what you have to do.
That is what we are in.
If you're in monk mode, you have to realize there is so much to gain.
If you stay focused, if you keep your head down and you keep moving.
I understand the temptation out there.
Trust me when I tell you.
Oh, it's not easy.
It's really not.
You know, I wish I could sit here and tell you that it was easy.
Truly.
I really wish I could.
The problem is I can't.
Because I didn't be a liar and I don't believe in lying to you.
My friends, a strategy that's worked for me thus far.
Whenever I think about viewing Pran, whenever I think about hitting up girls, I think to
myself, no, you 10 pushups.
I immediately start doing pushups.
Why?
Because it takes my mind off of it.
I say go for a walk.
I produce something that that energy can fill the gap.
I don't just sit there playing hot and cold with my phone saying, I want to do it, but
I won't.
But I want to.
But I won't.
But I want to.
But I don't want to.
No, I don't do that.
I don't sit there like SpongeBob.
I don't need it.
I definitely don't need it.
No, I don't do that.
Don't do that.
I'll drive yourself crazy.
And on top of driving yourself insane, it will defeat the purpose of what you're trying
to do.
You will spend the energy you're supposed to be using productively on playing defense.
You'll be playing defense instead of playing offense.
You'll be playing defense against your sex drive.
Instead of using it to be creative, using it to be a cultivator and a creator, you're
going to use it to play defense.
That is stupid.
It's a waste.
At that point, you might as well simply indulge, get out of your system and get back to work.
But again, what are you willing to sacrifice?
Are you willing to sacrifice for your success?
Because guess what?
If you're not, you can't expect to get a whole lot.
Without high risk, you can't expect the high yield.
And yes, you're going to lose out on things.
You're going to have to sacrifice to get to where you want to go.
It's unavoidable.
It is, you can't have it all at the same time.
Look, I hate saying that.
I do.
I want everything all at the same time.
I understand that.
Guess what?
It's not going to happen.
So what's your alternative?
Well, in monk mode, there's no point in being in monk mode.
If you don't know what you're working towards, me, I'm working on creating more content for
this show, being on X more, writing more.
I am focused on those things.
I wake up every day, hyped to start.
I do, if I love it.
But guess what?
If you don't have something you're aiming towards and you're just like, oh, I just don't
want to, I want to be in a month mode, but I don't have a purpose, well guess what?
You're going to be playing a whole lot of defense because then you're not going to have
a place to put the extra energy you will find yourself having.
Seamen retention is hard.
I'm not saying you need to do it indefinitely.
In fact, according to the science I've read, it's not good for you to do it indefinitely,
but there are small periods of time, 30 days, 60 days, even 90 days longer if you can do
it that you can do it.
I'm not a medical professional, but what I'm here to tell you is this, you must be willing
to sacrifice to succeed because if you are not, someone else will and you'll be left
in the dust.
Why do you want to enter monk mode or why are you currently in it?
Cause if you can't answer that question, you're not going to last long.
Oftentimes we want to give our sexual energy because we feel an emptiness within our soul.
We feel an emptiness in our life and we think feeling something else pause will allow us
to do that and get that feeling.
We would rather sacrifice that energy for short term fulfillment, short term excitement
rather instead of long term fulfillment.
That is the whole point of monk mode is trading the temporary for the long term.
And if you're not willing to do that, well, then you're going to get short term results
and don't be surprised when you don't wait in the long term.
That's it.
Also apologies if you can hear the helicopter going above me.
That's unfortunate.
But my friends, look, I have to really drive this home because I had to figure this out
for myself.
I'm not just trying to yell at you.
I had to figure this out for myself.
It was hard being in monk mode the first time.
Hell, it's hard now.
So you can imagine how hard it was the first time.
But let me tell you something.
There is power in turning down sex because then you realize that that's really the real
leverage that women have over you is the sex.
No leverage your time, your energy, your attention, your monetary assets against you for the sex.
And that doesn't make them evil.
It just, you need to realize that romance is a transaction.
I know people getting mad when I say that, but, but take the emotion out of it.
Show me where I am factually incorrect.
Please.
Please give me the emotional garbage.
I want an actual pragmatic argument as to how a relationship is not transactional because
it is every relationship doesn't have to just be romantic.
Every relationship is at some level transactional.
Now it depends on what you value, but that doesn't matter.
What matters is the transaction.
But sex and sexual expression is a form of payment.
You pay for that.
You are losing energy.
You're losing vitamins.
You're losing protein.
You're losing blood.
You are losing actual assets that could be used at other avenues, but you're using it
for the fulfillment for the arousal.
That's what you're using it for.
And there's no shame in that.
But just realize you're not going to get the maximum amount of return that if you had doubled
down and if you had used that energy elsewhere in plain English.
My friends, are you in mug mode?
Have you not even heard of mug mode before?
I've done a video on mug mode before, but I really want you to understand the realities
of what we're dealing with.
Life is a game in some ways and other times it is not.
It works more as a metaphor that way, but you need to understand that if you're not
willing to pay the price, sorry, if you're not willing to pay the price, you're not willing
to pay the cost to be the boss, guess what?
Someone else will be your boss then.
You need to realize that there are real pros, cons, actions, reactions out here in this
world and things don't just happen to you.
They happen as a result of something you did or failed to do.
So don't play the victim, become a victor.
And the most recent Hunger Games movie, which was great by the way, I enjoyed it.
There's a line that President Snow has when they're learning about the Hunger Games and
it's new and it's fresh and I won't spoil too much of it for you if you want to go see
it.
But the line he has is, the woman asks him, what is the purpose of the Hunger Games?
And she's like, to basically play the game and he's like, well, what player are you then?
And he says, I'm the victor.
That is the mentality you must have.
Cause if you don't, trust me, someone else will be all too eager to take that role for
you.
My friends, stay vigilant, stay informed, keep questioning everything out here, including
me, especially me.
And let's get out here and let's win and let's do better than yesterday and stay in the
mode of your edit and if you're not consider doing it for the good of yourself, your future
and staying motivated is only part of the battle.
Remember why you managed to get this far or even considered it.
That is powerful.
You're already ahead of the curve.
My friends, let's get out here and let's win.
Don't be a victim, become a victor.
All right.
Have a great Christmas season.
I'll talk to you guys again soon.
I'm out of here.
Peace.