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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get sheared podcast.

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I'm your host, Austin Creed.

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My friends, hopefully for a while this will be the last audio only show.

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But what I wanted to talk about today is about minimalism.

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Now a lot of us, we go through stages of difficulty.

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We go through times of rebirth.

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We go through different chapters in our life where either we have to rebuild or we don't

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have a lot.

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We have to build up something in the first place in myself.

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I'll use myself as an example because I'd love to use you as an example.

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And some of you have told me a little bit about your stories and I would love to discuss

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it in the comments, but I don't know enough to always discuss your situation.

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I'm going to only speak for myself.

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When it comes to minimalism, I found that being not being tied down to a single up single

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place, a single town, a simple a single community have allowed me to expand my horizons.

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So allowed me to gain a perspective, live in different places and be exposed to different

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realities that I wouldn't have otherwise been able to do.

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And when people equate success with something that's usually with stuff, and the more you

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have the more stuff you have, the more you end up being tied down to a certain area or

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at the very least, you have to find a way to store that stuff, find a way to manage

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that stuff.

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And it tends to prevent you from expanding your horizons to new places, new people and

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new experiences.

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And when you live by yourself to a certain place with certain group of people, or to

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a certain routine that you never change, that becomes a that becomes a level of comfort

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that can tie you down.

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You end up becoming more exploitable, because you tend to not want to jump into a new place.

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And you tend to not want to disrupt this flow that you have.

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You know, in my life, since I've left high school, high school was probably the last

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time I really had a solid routine that I never saw changing.

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After high school, I went to college for a little bit that I went to the military that

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I went back to college.

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Now I'm doing now in a different state doing roofing.

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The whole thing is wildly crazy.

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But you know what, that through that wild and craziness, I found new places, new experiences,

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met new people, and it's allowed me to test my current belief system.

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I don't understand people, whether I agree with them or don't agree with them, who don't

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want to challenge their preconceived notions.

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They don't want to put their views to the test.

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They don't want to put their worldview on the line.

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I don't care if it's about women, about money, about religion, about politics, all of it

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is important to test.

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Because if you just want to live in an echo chamber, you're never going to grow as a person.

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Never.

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Never.

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You're never going to grow as an individual if you only hang out with the people that agree

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with you, the people who don't challenge you.

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I'll be honest, it's tough, very tough.

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It's not comfortable.

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It will always put you in a position to where you have to learn something new and you have

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to decide, hey, you know what, do I want to accept this?

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Do I want to integrate this?

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Or is this not going to work for me?

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Maybe I should test this farther.

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Maybe I need to experiment a little bit.

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But you see, that's all part of your growth as a man.

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And some of you, you went through this when you were young, but now you're a little bit

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older.

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Now maybe you've gone through a marriage, maybe you've gone through a couple tough

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relationships that aren't necessarily a marriage, but what they still shaped your view of relationships,

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or maybe you made hard investments.

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Maybe you wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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And it didn't work out and you gave up or you pivoted and now you're trying to do something

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else, but you don't have the capital.

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There are any number of different scenarios that you could find yourself in.

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But the common denominator I found, which is not a lot, something people like to discuss

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the lowest common denominator, if you watch enough content on the internet, whether it's

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about relationships, about wealth, about religion, about politics, or any of these different

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topics or more, people tend to want to blame others for their misfortune.

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They want to blame other people and give them the bill and not say, Hey, you know what,

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out of all of these different experiences, out of all these different scenarios, the

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common denominator was me.

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So whether it's 10% or 100%.

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I have some level of accountability to take here.

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A lot of people, they don't want to do that.

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They want to blame others because it's just easier.

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And I don't blame them for wanting to blame other people.

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It's natural because then you have to admit that you made a mistake and that you need

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to adjust and that you have improvement to me.

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And that's tough.

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That takes maturity to say, Hey, I have something I must change.

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I have something I did wrong.

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And now there's something that must be done.

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Now my friends, what you might be asking yourself, well, Austin, what does this have to do with

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minimalism?

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Well, I've found that minimalism will help you maintain leverage.

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For example, in the workplace, there was a time, not even that long ago, one of my mentors

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I grew up around, he's worked for Apple for years and years since the company before

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even what public, if you can believe it.

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And he's told me back in the day, the company used to be loyal to the employee and then

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the employee was loyal to the corporation.

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That doesn't happen much anymore.

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The story about that guys, I got excited about this.

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This is something I know a lot about because it's been explained to me multiple times by

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multiple people that I respect.

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So when it comes down to it, loyalty is not a guarantee.

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And therefore you must have leverage.

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You must ensure that you, my friend, have the appropriate ability to not depend on a

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corporation on a different person.

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And this is taught to women a lot more than it is to men nowadays.

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A lot of women are taught, oh, don't go out there and depend on a man.

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And a lot of mothers and fathers, they do this because they don't want their little

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girl to be in a terrible relationship, which is ironically not the biggest problem out

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here anymore.

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But maybe it was in their time or some anecdotal level, it was something they were concerned

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about, which is totally understandable.

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But guess what?

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Nothing is free number one.

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And there are consequences to your actions.

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Number two.

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And this is why it is important to have leverage.

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And so when you live a minimalist lifestyle, you don't have a lot of furniture, a lot

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of stuff.

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How much saying have to do this forever because you don't.

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In fact, you shouldn't have to do this forever.

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But initially, especially or during times when you're trying to reinvent yourself, this

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is going to help you out the most.

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If you don't want to sacrifice, well, then don't be upset when you don't see the success

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that you would like to see.

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It's that simple.

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You could it's easy to make fun of people on the Internet who live this reality.

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It's another thing to not understand that you might suffer from the same problem.

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It just looks a little different.

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For example, you might say, hey, Austin, I'm not like my job.

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My job sucks, or I don't like it.

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And I want to work this job, but I don't know how to do it.

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Answer.

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Well, let's figure it out then.

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What are you willing to give up if you want something you have to give?

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You can't just get and get and get without giving.

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The world doesn't work that way.

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You can't get crops without planting seeds.

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You can't plant seeds without buying them or without giving up part of your crop from

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the year before to then have the seeds.

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That's how that works, my friends.

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In the same way that you can't see the success you want in your life.

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You're not going to sacrifice things to get to that success.

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I don't care if that success is a relationship that you want to have or that success is a

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certain dollar amount you want to hit in your bank account or your investment portfolio.

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These are all things you must understand.

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I had to understand the hard way, by the way.

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You think I like this?

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It doesn't matter whether I like it or not.

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What matters is if it works, if it actually turns out the way that I know it turned out,

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because I've done this before.

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I've made sacrifices and I've seen success as a result of my sacrifices.

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One of the biggest sacrifices I've made that I would argue has been pivotal to my growth

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as a man as sacrificing my sexual satisfaction in the short term.

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Napoleon Hill, one of the men that's helped change my life, even though I'm pretty sure

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he's dead.

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His writings have changed my life.

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And one of the things he wrote in his book Outwitting the Devil, through his character

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ironically the devil, was the following statement.

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He said that if man took half, not all, not three quarters, but half of the energy he

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uses in the pursuit of sex, he will never know poverty.

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In other words, if you take half of the time you try to run game, you try to mat these

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hoes, you try to take girls out broke dating, if you take that time, that energy, that attention,

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that money, and you put it towards something like a new business venture or building your

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resume up to look better or whatever have you, then you will make more money.

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And you can use that money to gain your time back to focus your energy on places you want.

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There's an old saying that money doesn't buy happiness.

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And there's truth to that.

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It does not buy happiness, but I'd rather have money.

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I'm going to be unhappy whether I'm broke or rich.

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I'd rather be rich.

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And when you're rich, you have the ability to have things done on your terms.

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You can use your money to leverage attention from others, other people's energy, and you

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allow yourself to buy back your own time using money.

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So when we get into this idea of minimalism, sometimes you got to go through periods of

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minimalistic living, whether it's your living outside your means, or whether it's you're

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just going through a time of reinventing yourself, trying to recreate something, trying to build

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because you've lost whether it's a marriage, whether it's a loved one, whether it was a

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job, it doesn't matter.

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All these things with new car when you encounter loss in your suffering, you must sacrifice

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to get yourself out of this funk and into a new area of success.

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That's what I found to be true.

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If you found another way to cheat the system, God bless you, but cheating the system only

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works for so long.

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And the same way that you only cheat on somebody tests or cheat on whatever, until you eventually

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get found out.

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I found that all this living law may not work instantaneously to change your life.

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Fast money tends to bring with it fast problems.

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The same way that we must not take shortcuts in this life, shortcuts often lead to the

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most expensive problems.

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So my friends, when it comes to maximizing your results, you might have to go through

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minimalistic living situations, because that'll give you leverage that'll give you new opportunities

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that then can lead you to a better life.

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That's my opinion.

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And if you disagree, you're more than welcome to do that.

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I would love to hear what you disagree with or how you've done this yourself and how you

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made it how you've sacrificed and that's led to your success.

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I'd love to hear it because I think a lot of people are afraid to lose.

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We go through phases of our life where we see a sacrifice thing as compromising and

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I disagree with that 100% disagree.

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My friends, you let me know how this has impacted your life, how you've sacrificed in your life

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and how that sacrifice is paid off or maybe you didn't pay off or maybe it paid off in

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a way you never expected.

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Please let me know.

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I would love to hear it.

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I think it would help other men in this community when we're we've all gone through these phases

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and some of us might be in it right now as I am.

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Now I'd love to hear what you have to say.

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In the meantime, my friends look out for new videos because I'm going to be pumping out

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more videos, not just the audios, because I'm finally getting to move into my new place

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later today.

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So hopefully I can handle all this and get it all sorted out.

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But I've really, I've really sensed that somebody needed to hear this and it wasn't

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just me.

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My friends, take care of yourselves.

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Let me know in the comments answering the questions I have or any questions that you

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want to raise.

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There you are.

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I'd love to hear them.

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Take care of yourselves.

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I'm out of here.

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Bye.