Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared Podcast. I'm your host, Austin Creed. Welcome into the show. So my friends. As a guy who's getting close to being done with college, I'm moving into the next phase of my life. I've already been through a couple phases already, but. I'm moving into a new phase starting after this coming summer, and I thought to myself, you know what? I should share some of the life lessons I've learned, even though I'm not old by any means. I'm still just before my my mid 20s, still not early 20s, so I thought to myself, you know what? Here's what I think I should do. I should talk about what I've learned, not just for other people, but for myself to look back and say, OK, here's what I learned here. Here's what I learned there. Here's what I learned there. And so that I can bring it all together, and then maybe somebody can benefit from it. If I touch one person. And helped you. Then I did my job today. Because here's what I want. To do. I'm going to discuss 10 things. I narrowed it down to 10 things that I want to discuss for you today. Ella, don't worry. We'll be bringing some receipts and I will be showing you why I believe this to be important and how I learned this lesson. I. But to let your voice be heard. You can hit me up in the comments section if you're watching on YouTube, Ron Rumble or head on over to my ex page at Sheep gets cheered. My DMS are wide open. You want to come over there and contribute, or if you want to comment on any of the posts, the thousands of them that I have on X, you are more than welcome to do that. But without further ado, here's what I want to do tonight. I want to talk about these 10 things. I won't show you the list right now, because then you just be done with it. I want to give context for each one, and then we'll go down the litany. Are you ready? All right, we're going to start at #1 and to demonstrate why I want I put #1 on this list. I would like to show you the following, OK. I had to turn off. I had to turn off the volume because the sound because I'm TikTok, they have music. OK so I can't show you the music. But I can narrate for you what they're doing. If you're listening on the podcast. So here's what we're going to do. We're gonna play this video right here to demonstrate why #1 partying is dumb when you're in your 20s or even in your late teens. Sometimes in your early 30s. If you really don't catch the memo. You think that, oh, I gotta go to the club. I gotta hit the bar. I got to do all these things that I did my fair share of it when I was in the military with my boys and I would go out to the club, we go to the the the script club. We do, we go all these places we hit the bar, we go bar hopping. We do all these things. OK. But you know what I learned a couple lessons for you. On that one alone, and to demonstrate my point, here's the first video I want to show. Look at all these girls men. They all dress Connell all glammed up. And they all they they dancing, they drinking, they they, they grinding on each other, all that good stuff. Oh, yeah. OK. Thank you for making my point. But again, look, these are the kind of women that I'll play three more time. These are the kind of women you want. You know. They they look pretty because they all have makeup on and they all have their. Their wigs done that they have a wig or they've got everything all done. Look at this one goofy dude right here. Hold on. Hold on. Back up this video. Look at. Let me see the guy there. He is this guy right here in the bottom right corner. That's the guy you're told you want to be when you're in your 20s. Right you wanna. Be the guy that's. Ohh yeah man about here getting all these these ******* at the club. I'm having fun. I'm getting. I'm getting wasted. I'm. I'm having a good old time, right? Maybe if I'm lucky I take someone back to the crib and I give her the Zing. Laying in the bobbity bibbity you know Bill Cosby? Type language, you know, but you know. This is what you're told to be, but this is a very expensive B. You're getting nothing back from this zero. Nothing. It's expensive. You're you're going to be out till, like 4:00 AM going to Denny's. And this this is just stupid. OK, let's go to the next video I have for you on. Clubbing and if you. Think ohh Austin. I'm in a relationship. This won't affect me. Ohh really look at this. His boyfriend behave tonight in her. She taking shots with her mouth, not using her hands. Oh, by the way, you think this is just this woman? No, it isn't. Ohh, hell no. No, it's not. This is the norm, my friends. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is the norm. You think this is the exception? No, it's not. Many women are out here doing this. They out here doing all kinds of behavior like this, by the way. So my friends, this is what we're talking about. This is why parning is dumb. It's expensive. It it doesn't benefit you really in any way. It doesn't do anything to further your future, which is a it ties into another point down the road. But you know I want to show you something else. I've told you one thing you shouldn't do, which is go party. Cause partying is dumb in my opinion. So here's what we'll do instead. I want to show you some another view. Deal of what you should be doing instead. Let's show you this real quick. Here we go. 

What if I told you that investing in small amounts can actually lead to huge return? Yes, it's possible, and the secret to this is what's called compounding interests, the power of earning interest on top of interest by reinvesting your earnings, your money grows exponentially over time. Think Warren Buffett? Now let's say, for example, you save 100 bucks every month for 30 years, you'll have $36,000 by the end of that. But if you invest that money instead of just having to sit in the bank. That would grow to over $200,000. That's the power of compounding interest. What if I told? 

OK. Thank you, Sir. Shout out to you. I appreciate it. Thank you for making my point. See see this. Is the kind of mentality that you probably weren't told when you were younger. You said people told you to have fun, they told you ohh you're taking life too seriously. Go have some fun. Enjoy yourself, for God's sakes. Well. I want to show you this is the power of compound interest and I'm not saying you need to throw hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars. You know, you put 50 bucks. Somewhat regularly, $20. They're acorns. I'm not sponsored by Acorns, but you look at the acorns, there's acorns app you can really connect it to your credit card, debit card, bank account or whatever. So then every time, let's say you go to the store. Right, and. You buy, but you buy ground beef for like 5 for 599 or five and 95. Right. Well, that $0.05 that you didn't. Spend now, they'll cost you 6 bucks, but they'll spend that $0.05 and it'll go right over there to the acorns and it will be invested for you. Oh, yeah. There are options out here like that. Where instead of having 590-2637, you can then round up to the nearest dollar. And have that money be invested. Ohh yeah. And have it be non conscious be happening all the time every day. Look about how much money that you could be just investing without even realizing it. Those options are available to you. But people want to pretend like, oh, I don't got to worry about all that. That's not important. Well, that's that's dumb. 

Business, business, business numbers. Is this working? Yes. 

When I talk about money, that's the kind of mentality a lot of people have. Their immediately stop listening to a lot of people because they're like, oh, I want to talk about money. I don't wanna talk about money. OK, you don't have. To talk about money. If you don't want to. But if you want to be rich like here's OK, this is I'm trying to another point. I wasn't planning on talking about this point till later on, but I'm going to tie this in now. OK. This idea of not comparing, sorry. Not comparing yourself to other people. When I was 2120. And my one of my mentors pointed this out to me, he said. I notice you say. This a lot. He said. I notice you compare yourself to other people. You feel as though you're behind someone. You're behind the curve. Who are you behind? Who is it that you're thinking you're so far behind on and I? Tell them oh. I thought my friends were doing so much better than me, and not that I was hating on them. No, just I felt again. Feelings can really lead you astray. But I both thought and felt as though I was behind. I should be farther ahead. I had this fear that I was missing out. I had this fear that I was running out of time. I had this fear. That I wasn't doing enough as quickly as I wanted to, and he pointed out to me, he said, you know what you thinking about this all wrong? And he was the one that brought it to my attention. And then I really started to think about it. And I said, wait a minute. Why am I rushing? When you're young. Men and women are different. OK, I know that's almost sacrilege to say today. And a lot of people the mayor mentioned of saying men and women are different. Their response is something akin to. 

Ohh hell no. 

But it's true. Men and women are. Different women peak. Very early men, we don't. Men don't hit their earning potential till like 40 to 50. That's when the most millionaires are made. Is about when you're 40s to 50s to 60s. Women, on the other hand, when women are 18/20/25, they look really good for the most part, they have tons of validation attention. All this stuff flooding their way. And with plastic surgery with skin care, with makeup, with extensions, with collagen injections, all these things they can ride it out longer than they used to. But at 40, as a woman versus 40 as a man. It is nowhere near the same thing. You as a man, are still on the up and up a woman she peeked a while ago, and she's still trying to ride that out. She's still trying to ride that **** out, and that's tough, man. But again, you need to not compare yourself to other people because everybody has. A different path and who cares? What other people are doing and someone you care about does something great 100% go congratulate them. But do not sit there and think that all I need to do more. I should done more cause all it's going to make you do is get down on yourself. And you're going to start discrediting yourself, bringing yourself down when that's other people's job. 

This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me. 

There's plenty of it out there. Well, I'm here to tell you that will drag you down instead of saying, hey, maybe I didn't do it. What I could have done. What? The future. Let's focus on the future. Let's say I wanted to do that. So let's find a way to do it. I wanted to start my own business. Let's do that. I wanted to start commentating or I wanted to start doing something. I'm passionate about. Let's do that. There are if you're young and focused on the future, you'll have plenty of time to reminisce about the past when you're. Older save that for later. I want to show you a graph here real quick. Oh, no, no, I don't. Have the graph. OK, there was a graph that showed the level of compound interest and what it did for you over time. If you it showed compounding interest of 25 versus 35 and 45 and it showed. That hey, there is a huge low. I believe it if you started investing in like 25 you could get I was like 250 bucks a month. You get to almost $900,000. My retirement age 35 we get like 400,000 and then 45 it's like 1.500 thousand. That's huge. It's huge, but again, it's the idea of thinking long term, not partying, not wasting your time, your youth on things that don't matter. Look about all the. Things you do today. Whether you're 20 teens, 30s, think about all the things you do right now. You're wasting your time. You are doing things with a low rate of return. If any at all. I'm not saying you don't go enjoy yourself every once in a while. That is fine. Rewarding yourself. It's like it's good for your psychology. According to what I've read. But there's a difference between rewarding yourself. And indulging yourself? Huge difference. And uh, let's see what's the next thing I had to say. Ohh. Here it is. OK. Learning how to make decisions. Ohh boy. Let me ask you something. How many of you today are have this condition? I like to call paralysis from analysis. In other words, you look at data and you're like, oh, I don't know what to do. I don't know. I don't know to make a choice like you're just you don't want to make a choice. You're afraid you're gonna make the wrong choice. Choice and which then in turn leads you to. Making no choice. Which is the worst possible option? Or you make a bad choice? You need to learn to say, hey, I'm doing this. I may not do it well when I first start doing it, but I'm going to do this thing because I want to because I know give it enough time. I can do it and it's. Going to be great. That is what you need to do. That is what will benefit you long term I found. This to be true. You set your mind on something. You write it down on a piece of paper. You say it every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to sleep. You will have that thing. Why? Cause your subconscious mind will be working to get you to that place. Don't stress about these things. You need to Work Act with purpose. Stress is when you feel paralyzed, powerless, like nothing you do has any meaning. That is when you'll feel stressed when you're just doing and doing and acting and acting in business and business and business. 

Business, business, business numbers business working, yes. 

Yeah, you will not feel stressed. Your stress will be limited. And that is what you want because when you when you're in this situation of I have to act, I have to act. I have to act. You're likely going to make an emotional choice or an uninformed choice. Sometimes you gotta just leave with your gut and learn to adjust your radar to understand what you're more inclined to do. Me, what you default to. These are important things to learn about yourself, but a lot of people look to other people to make their choices for them. They look to other people and like I'm like, I don't know. I don't know about this. What should I do? As if the other person knows what they're doing. If they do, then then take them into consideration. But at the end of the day, you need to make the choice, not them, not your mom, not your dad, not your brother, not your cousin, not your girlfriend, not your wife. You. You gotta make the choice. That is what you must do so you don't, then you're going to be relying on that person, and you're assuming that they're right in the 1st place, which is a stretch. My friends. You need to not let other people define you, and that ties into what we just talked about of making your own choices. A lot of people want to. Be liked. They want to be enjoyed. They think that I have to be liked by other people because that is where my value is. No, and that's actually exactly the opposite. In fact, when you have a backbone, you see that this this thing running up your spine, you reach on your neck and you'll see, you'll feel this kind of thing in your upper back. That's your spine. You need to use that. You need to say, hey, this is the kind of behavior I will accept and will not accept. Ladies, I hear women complain all the time, that all I, you know, men push my boundaries. Men do this and men do that. Sorry if you heard that. My friends, here's what I want you to understand when you say I will not tolerate X behavior and you enforce it. Don't just say it, but you do it. People will learn very quickly. They act right or they get gone. They are out of your life. And a lot of people are scared to do that. They don't want people to talk junk about them. They don't want people to say bad things about them. They don't want people to feel slighted by them. You will always have someone who feels that way. I don't care if they're valuable to your life or not. There are people who get mad at me for doing this show every day. They get mad that my attention goes to this. They getting mad at the things that I say. Do I let that affect me? No. I used to I don't anymore. Once you do a couple 100 episodes of of of anything or you do something a couple 100 times, you start to say, dude, who the hell cares about what? Someone who I don't know has to say I don't care. What they have to say? Do I want them to agree with me? I think it benefit them for sure. If they listen to me, but they don't have to. Because in 10 years when I'm still doing content and now my audience is still growing and I'm still learning, they'll come back to me and. They'll be like. We should have listened to him. Mm-hmm. Ohh, trust me, I know they will. I have zero doubt in my mind that that's exactly how things are gonna go down. Why? Because I know I've been. I've been that guy. I've been that guy where I'm like. They don't know what they're talking about. That's stupid. I know what I'm doing, and then I know. I think I know. What I'm doing and. I'm like, Oh yeah. You should have listened to that guy. He knew. He was talking about. And but that takes learning and that's what I encourage you to do is understand what you're good at and understand what you're not good at so that you can work on the things you care about. Mix them into the things you already enjoy doing, and then you could stack your skills, which is another item on this list. Is stacking skills. For example, I love to learn. I love to talk about things that I'm passionate about. I like. To explore technology doing all these things has helped me do this show better. You think I just hop on here, turn on the camera and do my show? That's not true. Not true. So my friends, what do you enjoy doing? Do you enjoy coding? Do you enjoy photography? Do you enjoy psychology? Do you enjoy food? What is it you enjoy doing? I enjoy writing. That's why I wrote this book, Biblical Bachelor. That's why I wrote this book. I like to write about things I like to express myself in a constructive way. That is how I wrote this book. That's how I'm working on writing other books. That's how I work on doing the show better. Everything you do can be connected to something else and. In turn, it can be monetized to the easy. No, not always is it convenient if it work hard enough, maybe. But it all comes down to what do you actually want? What do you want? Because you don't even know that. Well, then you're wasting your time, and you're no wonder you're unhappy. And frankly, if you don't know what you're doing, my 30, you're kind of a weirdo. 

Getting weird. 

But that's OK because you need to work and understand who you are and what you want, because then once you know what you want, I guarantee you there's a way to get it. Is it going to be easy? No sacrifice free? Not likely. But that's what makes it worth while. That's what makes it valuable to you. Things aren't valuable if you just get them for free, you get them without trying. That's not valuable to you. You've ever been working out something and you couldn't do it. You tried and you tried and you tried and you tried, and eventually you got that and. You're like, yes, I. Did it and you were so happy. Yeah, there's a reason behind that versus you gotta first try. You're like, yeah, yeah, I did it. There's a reason behind that and life is no different. If you think everything is easy, then you're not doing anything worth doing. There's a lot of things out here that are very difficult and it takes time. It takes persistence. It takes advocating for yourself. It takes being ambitious. And that's what I want you to move towards. I want you to win in your life. I've I've been very vulnerable throughout this show, kind of explaining some of the things I do. And you know what vulnerability is is another aspect of this that can be a little controversial because relationships reap little rewards. In your 20s. I'm sorry. When if you're married, maybe it could be different. Maybe if your marriage lasts, it can be different for most people. If you're just out here trying to get people's attention trying to run game, trying to hook up, trying to do all that, it's goofy. It's dumb. You know what? I'll. I'll let this video speak for me on this. Here's what your damning life will likely look like. 

Don't touch me, I'm not playing. I know you didn't just walk past me. Come back if you're here. Ohh hell no. Come back, try again. Now you can go on. You lie to me. 

See, this is what I'm talking about right here. This is the kind of relationship you deal with. In ladies, I'm. People will create their own problems. People sow the wind, reap the whirlwind, and this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Let's go through it one more time. First day of dating. Everything's good. One month in. Relationship changing a little bit. 

Don't touch me, I'm not playing. 

Six months in, she already getting attitude. 

I know you didn't just walk past me. 

Ohh my OK stop no. This is the problem I have with this and why I say relationships reap little reward with very rare exception. So first day, you know it's new, it's exciting. It's good. Whatever we're happy about it, right? One month in she's she's she's like, ohh. You know, she's kind of giving you a little bit of a little bit of rejection but not too much. Six months in, she's like, don't you touch me? I'm not a piece of me. You can't treat me like this. And then he says, OK, I'll adjust. I won't do that anymore. And then when he stops doing it, when you're in, he doesn't even do it at all. And she's like, I know you. Didn't do that. Is that what you asked for? It's not what you asked for. You said no, I don't want you to do that. So then he listened to you and you're penalizing him for listening. I know it's a scam. I know it's a skit, but there is truth in humor. There is truth, and the examples like this, you really think that art doesn't imitate life. You think that this life doesn't imitate art. What are you, nuts? This is why relationships reap the low reward because most people. Are not serious about life. They have no, they're misguided, undecided, unhappy, misdirected. They don't know what the hell is going on. They don't know who they are and what they want, what they're doing, who they're doing. They don't know what the Hell's going on. That's why relationships are with very, very rare exception are a total waste of your time. Complete waste. Especially if you're a 20 year old man or 20s year old guy, cause your this is your time to build yourself. This is your time to say, hey, I'm gonna go out here and I'm. Gonna like look. At the world, and I'm gonna do everything that. I wanted to. Do this is your time to do that. This isn't your time to come out here and settle your time to come out here and. Play these emotional games and trying to kick the emotional field goal with the goal line always moving everywhere. This is the time to do none of that. Because women have the natural need to survive, so they're always going to find the best mate. And they're entitled to do that. I'm not going to sit here and shame them for that. But what I will say is this gentleman, if you're not the best mate. She ain't gonna stay loyal to you. She got a monkey branch, which is a term that maybe you even heard before. Monkey branching is like a monkey who's swinging from tree to tree to tree. You gotta make sure that I can catch the next branch before I close. And I'm gonna go on the next tree. Women are the same way. Now, if you're married, this might look a little bit different, but This is why the divorce rate is super high. Women never leave a relationship to just be single. No, no, no, no. They always got some dude on the side. There are statistics, even normal statistics that are backing this up now. OK. This is why I'm telling you relationships aren't bad for you. If you're in your 20s, unless you are just trying to immediately get married. Even then, that's really hard. To do these. Days. But even if you wanted to do that, which I would not recommend by the way, but if you wanted to do that, you do what you want. I was telling you that. Women tend to hold it against men who marry them in their 20s because they feel as though they've lived their whole life and haven't done what their girlfriends have done. They haven't done what the girls they see on Instagram are doing or on TikTok or or anywhere else. And This is why they're more likely to be a. Liability to you? To set you back. Divorce sets you back child support sets you back the money you spend on dates, on trips, on on gifts. These add up the emotional energy you spend in a relationship is. It's crazy. And for the people who want to disagree. With me, all I have to say is. 

I love the poorly educated. 

And for the what's that pretend like most people in their relationships aren't. 

You are a. Rude, terrible person. 

Let's not pretend like most people aren't that way in general, OK? My friends there are. I think that's all 10. Ohh no, this is the last one. You need to learn how to balance your biochemistry. What the hell does that mean? What I mean by that is this. You need to learn how your brain works, how you operate, what your default is. Do you have an addictive personality? Are you a little more off to the side? What is it? You. How is it? How does your brain? Work. How do your feelings work? People wanna say that emotional intelligence is defined by your how much you feel. No. No. 100% false. 

Oh, hell no. 

Emotional intelligence is defined by your ability to control your emotions, to regulate them, to understand how they operate and use them in tandem with your goals. That is what it is defined by. So my friends. You need to learn how to balance the biochemistry in your brain to understand why you do certain things, what environment might trigger certain behaviors in you, what food you're eating that might throw off your do you have? Do you have the proper vitamins? Do you? Are you working out enough? What is it that you're not doing that's affecting? The rest of your life. My friends, these are just a couple of lessons that I've learned in my 20s and I'm still in them. And I'm sure I'll learn more as time goes. On but what? Lessons. Have you learned? Do you agree with my list? Do you not agree with the list? Would you add to the list? Would you subtract from? The list. Please please let me know. I'm very curious here, which I have to say. My friends, in the meantime, whether you listen to the list, don't listen to it. Add, subtract, discard, put it on your wall and frame it. Whatever it is you do, stay vigilant. Stay informed, question everything that comes your way, and I encourage you to always be on a lookout to learn skill stack. Be out here trying to be the best. You can be because there's enough mediocre people out here. I'm out of here. Take care of yourselves. Stay blessed. Peace.