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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 Creed.

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I want to welcome you into the show.

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Well, friends, I hope you had a great Christmas.

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I hope that you're enjoying the Christmas season as we head in towards New Year's.

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You know, at the end of my semester that I finished at college recently, I challenged

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myself to go back into monk mode.

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I have no stranger to monk mode.

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I've been in monk mode before.

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I was in monk mode for 90 days several months ago.

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That was arguably about the same time that I started writing for the first time.

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I started drawing up plans for the show that you're now listening to.

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That's a couple hundred episodes in.

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I found out a lot about myself in those 90 days, but it was extremely tough.

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And now that I'm back in, I'm about two weeks back in the monk mode again.

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I realize that if you've never read Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill, my friends, you

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are severely missing out because let me tell you something, sexual energy is the most primal

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energy you will ever experience.

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And there is a lot to be gained by transmuting that energy, but it takes tremendous levels

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of discipline.

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So my friends, that's what we're going to talk about today is staying in monk mode.

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The journey continues.

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The journey is the hardest part.

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The first couple days, even the first week, week and a half, those are probably going

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to be the easiest times because you're excited, you're motivated, you're distracted most likely,

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you're pouring yourself into your work.

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Let me tell you something, around the beginning of the second year, the second week mark,

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that's when stuff gets tough.

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That's when things get hard.

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And if you are struggling, you're not alone, but just know something.

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Ask yourself this one question.

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Why did you enter monk mode in the first place?

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To keep yourself going, you need to understand and remind yourself why you're doing what

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you're doing in the first place.

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Those of you who don't know what monk mode is, monk mode is putting aside women, it's

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putting aside alcohol, it's putting aside the marijuana if that's what you partake in.

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You put aside the distractions and you engage with what you are trying to accomplish.

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That takes tremendous levels of discipline.

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And guess what?

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The hardest part is the beginning.

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The beginning is hard, but it's also, it's complicated.

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It's different for everybody.

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Let's just get that out of the way.

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But if you're trying to stay in monk mode and you're finding it really, really hard,

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I'm right there with you.

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Let me tell you something, despite the fact that I'm just visiting with family, despite

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the fact that I've done this before, it really doesn't get all that much easier.

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I have distractions hitting me up.

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I have girls trying to hit me up.

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I have just, you would not believe how easy it is to access fron.

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It is unbelievable to me.

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Again, if you want to be average, then be like the average schmuck.

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But if you want to be extra ordinary, then you have to be willing to do things that are

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outside of the ordinary.

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And most people are going to be weak.

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They're going to partake.

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They're going to indulge.

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But you have to stand firm.

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Why did you enter monk mode?

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And if you're not in monk mode, maybe you should be.

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Ask yourself, are you happy with where you're at?

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Do you think there are things in your life strapped through you, trying to pull you aside?

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Because there's no shame.

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There's no shame in admitting that.

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There's only shame in holding yourself back.

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There's only shame in limiting yourself if you think you can't do it.

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I accomplished a lot in my last monk mode period.

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And I know I'm going to accomplish even more this time around.

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But it takes dedication.

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It takes time.

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Just like a farmer has to wait for the seeds he has sown to bear fruit to rise up from

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the ground and grow.

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That is what you have to do.

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That is what we are in.

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If you're in monk mode, you have to realize there is so much to gain.

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If you stay focused, if you keep your head down and you keep moving.

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I understand the temptation out there.

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Trust me when I tell you.

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Oh, it's not easy.

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It's really not.

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You know, I wish I could sit here and tell you that it was easy.

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Truly.

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I really wish I could.

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The problem is I can't.

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Because I didn't be a liar and I don't believe in lying to you.

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My friends, a strategy that's worked for me thus far.

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Whenever I think about viewing Pran, whenever I think about hitting up girls, I think to

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myself, no, you 10 pushups.

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I immediately start doing pushups.

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Why?

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Because it takes my mind off of it.

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I say go for a walk.

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I produce something that that energy can fill the gap.

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I don't just sit there playing hot and cold with my phone saying, I want to do it, but

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I won't.

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But I want to.

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But I won't.

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But I want to.

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But I don't want to.

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No, I don't do that.

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I don't sit there like SpongeBob.

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I don't need it.

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I don't need it.

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I definitely don't need it.

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No, I don't do that.

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Don't do that.

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I'll drive yourself crazy.

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And on top of driving yourself insane, it will defeat the purpose of what you're trying

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to do.

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You will spend the energy you're supposed to be using productively on playing defense.

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You'll be playing defense instead of playing offense.

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You'll be playing defense against your sex drive.

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Instead of using it to be creative, using it to be a cultivator and a creator, you're

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going to use it to play defense.

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That is stupid.

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It's a waste.

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At that point, you might as well simply indulge, get out of your system and get back to work.

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But again, what are you willing to sacrifice?

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Are you willing to sacrifice for your success?

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Because guess what?

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If you're not, you can't expect to get a whole lot.

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Without high risk, you can't expect the high yield.

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And yes, you're going to lose out on things.

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You're going to have to sacrifice to get to where you want to go.

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It's unavoidable.

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It is, you can't have it all at the same time.

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Look, I hate saying that.

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I do.

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I want everything all at the same time.

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I understand that.

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Guess what?

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It's not going to happen.

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So what's your alternative?

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Well, in monk mode, there's no point in being in monk mode.

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If you don't know what you're working towards, me, I'm working on creating more content for

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this show, being on X more, writing more.

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I am focused on those things.

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I wake up every day, hyped to start.

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I do, if I love it.

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But guess what?

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If you don't have something you're aiming towards and you're just like, oh, I just don't

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want to, I want to be in a month mode, but I don't have a purpose, well guess what?

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You're going to be playing a whole lot of defense because then you're not going to have

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a place to put the extra energy you will find yourself having.

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Seamen retention is hard.

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I'm not saying you need to do it indefinitely.

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In fact, according to the science I've read, it's not good for you to do it indefinitely,

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but there are small periods of time, 30 days, 60 days, even 90 days longer if you can do

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it that you can do it.

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I'm not a medical professional, but what I'm here to tell you is this, you must be willing

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to sacrifice to succeed because if you are not, someone else will and you'll be left

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in the dust.

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Why do you want to enter monk mode or why are you currently in it?

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Cause if you can't answer that question, you're not going to last long.

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Oftentimes we want to give our sexual energy because we feel an emptiness within our soul.

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We feel an emptiness in our life and we think feeling something else pause will allow us

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to do that and get that feeling.

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We would rather sacrifice that energy for short term fulfillment, short term excitement

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rather instead of long term fulfillment.

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That is the whole point of monk mode is trading the temporary for the long term.

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And if you're not willing to do that, well, then you're going to get short term results

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and don't be surprised when you don't wait in the long term.

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That's it.

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Also apologies if you can hear the helicopter going above me.

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That's unfortunate.

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But my friends, look, I have to really drive this home because I had to figure this out

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for myself.

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I'm not just trying to yell at you.

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I had to figure this out for myself.

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It was hard being in monk mode the first time.

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Hell, it's hard now.

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So you can imagine how hard it was the first time.

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But let me tell you something.

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There is power in turning down sex because then you realize that that's really the real

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leverage that women have over you is the sex.

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No leverage your time, your energy, your attention, your monetary assets against you for the sex.

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And that doesn't make them evil.

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It just, you need to realize that romance is a transaction.

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I know people getting mad when I say that, but, but take the emotion out of it.

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Show me where I am factually incorrect.

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Please.

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Please give me the emotional garbage.

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I want an actual pragmatic argument as to how a relationship is not transactional because

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it is every relationship doesn't have to just be romantic.

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Every relationship is at some level transactional.

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Now it depends on what you value, but that doesn't matter.

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What matters is the transaction.

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But sex and sexual expression is a form of payment.

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You pay for that.

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You are losing energy.

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You're losing vitamins.

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You're losing protein.

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You're losing blood.

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You are losing actual assets that could be used at other avenues, but you're using it

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for the fulfillment for the arousal.

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That's what you're using it for.

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And there's no shame in that.

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But just realize you're not going to get the maximum amount of return that if you had doubled

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down and if you had used that energy elsewhere in plain English.

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My friends, are you in mug mode?

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Have you not even heard of mug mode before?

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I've done a video on mug mode before, but I really want you to understand the realities

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of what we're dealing with.

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Life is a game in some ways and other times it is not.

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It works more as a metaphor that way, but you need to understand that if you're not

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willing to pay the price, sorry, if you're not willing to pay the price, you're not willing

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to pay the cost to be the boss, guess what?

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Someone else will be your boss then.

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You need to realize that there are real pros, cons, actions, reactions out here in this

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world and things don't just happen to you.

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They happen as a result of something you did or failed to do.

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So don't play the victim, become a victor.

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And the most recent Hunger Games movie, which was great by the way, I enjoyed it.

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There's a line that President Snow has when they're learning about the Hunger Games and

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it's new and it's fresh and I won't spoil too much of it for you if you want to go see

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it.

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But the line he has is, the woman asks him, what is the purpose of the Hunger Games?

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And she's like, to basically play the game and he's like, well, what player are you then?

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And he says, I'm the victor.

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That is the mentality you must have.

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Cause if you don't, trust me, someone else will be all too eager to take that role for

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you.

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My friends, stay vigilant, stay informed, keep questioning everything out here, including

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me, especially me.

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And let's get out here and let's win and let's do better than yesterday and stay in the

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mode of your edit and if you're not consider doing it for the good of yourself, your future

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and staying motivated is only part of the battle.

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Remember why you managed to get this far or even considered it.

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That is powerful.

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You're already ahead of the curve.

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My friends, let's get out here and let's win.

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Don't be a victim, become a victor.

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All right.

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Have a great Christmas season.

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I'll talk to you guys again soon.

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I'm out of here.

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Peace.