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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Sheepkid Sheared podcast, I'm your host,

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Auster Creed, my friends, I'm still on the road, I've lost encounter the number of times

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I've said that, but you know the closer I get to my final destination, the more I've

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encountered questions about what's to come, and I thought to myself I'm not the only

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one who could stand to benefit by having this conversation. And what I mean is, all

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of us have gone through phases of our life where either we had to build ourselves or

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reinvent ourselves. Those of you who've gotten divorced, I know you've had to reinvent

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yourself, that'll revamp your image with a lot of people who took your ex wife's side,

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or if you're a younger guy, you face here in the face of adversity as I do. And as

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I have in the past as well, uncertainty and unfamiliarity breeds fear and malcontents.

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You have no idea what to expect, you have no idea what's to come. And so that then

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automatically usually means you think of the worst possible thing that could happen. And

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I want to challenge you as I challenge myself with the following. Don't focus on what could

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go wrong. Focus on what you set out to achieve. Focus on your goal. I'm not saying don't

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analyze risks. Absolutely. Make sure you know what you're getting into. Not saying

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just jump in. That's stupid. I never tell you do that in a relationship or in an investment.

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And you are essentially investing in your future by betting on yourself. Make no mistake

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about it. That's what you're doing. You are betting on yourself. You're saying, I'm not

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going to take the safe route. I'm not going to take the route of least resistance. I'm

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not going to just go forward with what I think has the lowest probability of failure, but

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also then by extension, the lowest possible opportunity for growth. No, if you are out

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here to build yourself a reinvent yourself. It's all about saying I am going to make

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this work. Now, is it going to be hard first? It's been already anytime I've gone down

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a new road because you don't know what to expect. And even when you're going through

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it, you're trying to build some sense of understanding, trying to know what's going

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on around you. You're trying to find your footing. But you know, last night, after I

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drove for about 10 hours, I went up with an old friend who I used to play volleyball

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with. He's a technical surgeon in the US Air Force. He was he was then when I was in

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and he's still there now. And he's a he's a E six and the United States Air Force.

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And what's interesting to me is as we're having dinner, we had got steaks, we got some beer.

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It was fantastic. But after we were talking, it was interesting to hear him talk about

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his ex because he was with this one girl for four years. And I knew her. She, you know,

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they're very interesting dynamic. But what was really interesting was when he was talking

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to me, he's like, Hey, Austin, you know, I haven't seen you in a couple of years. You

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know, why are you out here? What's going on? You know, what's going on? But I can go

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on all with you. And I told him all about how I went to after the airport was over, I went

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to college. Now I'm going out to start a new job working at the city. And as I was talking,

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I could tell you something about me a little differently. And I was like, what? And he's

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like, you seem a lot more confident in yourself. You're curing yourself differently. And I

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I'm pause for a second. I said, what do you mean? And he said that it's really easy,

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especially when he's he's been in the Air Force for almost 10 years. And so he was

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telling me about how it's really easy for people to get complacent to get comfortable.

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And a lot of times when people fail or they think they have failed, it's easy to accept

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that defeat and not go out there and try not go out there and face adversity again because

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of the way it turned out before. And his insight was amazing. And it was interesting to hear

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him talk about how he put his relationship behind them. The other one that went bad.

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And he was making a rink and he was wanting to change bases because he'd been at this

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one for so long. And he it was it was great to see a man that I truly care about. And

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I've you know, seen in a not as good place. Be ready to face adversity again and be willing

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to risk and take a chance on himself. And I thought it was fantastic. And I thought to

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myself, I wish I could have recorded that conversation. It would have been great to

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play for you guys, but I wouldn't have done that. And I didn't want to do that to him.

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You know, I don't want to put people on the internet if they don't want to be on the internet,

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you know. And he was fantastic. And it was a great night. We shot fool. We shot the shit

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about life. It was fantastic. Well, my friends, the reason I tell you the story is not to

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tell you that I have great friends and you don't or anything like that. It's to let

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you know that just because you can can't necessarily identify with what I do per se,

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I know you might think, well, Austin, I'm not moving really across the country. I'm

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not getting in the roofing. I'm not trying to set up a cast. I'm not trying to do any

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of these things that you do. You know, so it's hard for me to relate or I'm older and

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I have a different story and I'm well, I like what you say. I don't always identify with

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it, but I try to. Three steps. How you my friend's story is not because I want you to,

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you know, say that always a cool guy or whatever, which he is, but it's to understand that.

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Everybody has their own story. You have a story to tell. You have adversity in your own life

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and you have choices to make about what you want to do next. I know some of you are older

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and you've gone through different stages of life that I have yet to go through and I would

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love to hear your advice on that. But I'd also love for you to know that you're not

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alone with the changes going on. If you want, if you're thinking that Austin, you know,

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I want to take this chance. I want to start this business. I want to stop. Look at this

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punk job. I don't like. I want to stop focusing on things I can't control. I want to make

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a change in my life that I actually like that I want. I want to become this person, but

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I don't know how to do it. But all I know that don't like what I'm doing right now is

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that self familiar to anybody or I'm in a relationship that I don't like. You know,

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one of the things my friend told me he was with his ex. Why I met when I first got on

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base and I met him, you know, two years ago, he was with it for four years. And he's in

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his late twenties now. He bet he'd been in there there for four years. That's not easy

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to just get rid of, you know, but he told me he's like, look, I couldn't get the relationship

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going. And I asked him, well, why not? Why'd you, why'd you not keep the relationship going?

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He looked at me and he said, because I had made so many small sacrifices over a long

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period of time. And this guy is, he's not fully Caucasian. He's half Filipino. He's

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half Caucasian. And he told me about how his girlfriend was not a huge fan of Filipino

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food, not a big fan of Asian food in general. So he didn't get to, you know, fully be in

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touch with himself and that's just one example of the things he gave up in that relationship

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to make her feel included, to make her feel good in that relationship. And I didn't go

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on full when I might talk about on the show, because the other day I didn't want to, I

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didn't want to hijack the conversation. I wanted to hear what he had to say. And it

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was interesting for him to really talk about what we talk about on this show, which is

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you kind of lose yourself in a relationship. And at the end of the day, you sacrifice to

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see success, whether it's in a relationship, whether it's professionally, whether it's

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personally, you will always sacrifice to achieve. You don't just get without giving something.

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And he told me he was tired of giving and giving and feeling like it wasn't reciprocated.

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He told me straight up, if he passed up by an opportunity to go to a different base,

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you stay at, you know, where we were with his girlfriend, because he cared about her.

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And then she brought it, then he brought it up later as if, Hey, you know, I really care

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about you. I want to make this work, whatever. And she was like, Oh, I didn't ask you to,

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you know, not leave. I didn't ask you to mess up on an opportunity for me. And he was like,

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I didn't say you did. I said, I did it because I cared about you and his relationship. And

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it was a big wake up call for him. If he was sacrificing and he, she was appreciating it.

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And so my friends, when he was talking about his professional life, his relationships and

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everything with him finally standing up for himself and finally saying, I want this because

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I want it, I'm going to go get it. I was like, that's damn right. Damn right. What I like

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to hear. That's what I'm talking about. And he doesn't know a lot of the stuff that we

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talked about on the show and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, she's just

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have a different mindset than me. And I don't think he fully agree with all the stuff we

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talked about on this show. And that's fine. But it was interesting to hear a man who has

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a different mindset than me, agree with a lot of the things that I espouse on the show

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and a lot of the things that you, the audience, you know, the loyal members of the show also

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agree with, you know, and they say it different ways, not exactly in the blunt way that, you

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know, the eye, my, or that you might, but it was refreshing to hear that we are, we

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are the silent majority as men. We all know that a lot of ways we sacrifice for women

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and they don't always appreciate it in the same way that we always have a natural fear

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of the unknown and of change. He brought that up to which I was happy to hear that he had

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the self-awareness to know that of that side of himself, which I kind of already knew.

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But he told me straight up that he was done being afraid of change and that he wanted

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the cultivate the change you wanted in his life. I applauded him mentally for that because

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for me, that was huge. We're going to say that. And my friends, just understand that

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while you may not be able to identify, like completely understand where I'm coming from,

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there are tons of different ways to apply this mindset of not being afraid of the unknown,

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not being afraid of what you don't know might happen, but instead arming yourself with knowledge

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and trusting that you can handle the adversity that's going to come your way and then you

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can formulate a strategy to win. Might not be easy. Might not be as obvious as you thought

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it might, but you could do it and you have to believe that you have to continue to face

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that adversity even if you fail at first, which is possible. I've failed before and

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I'm all front and honest about the places I've failed in the past. I honestly think

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I failed a lot in the military to be honest with you, but I didn't take that and then

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see myself as a victim. I saw that I learned from my mistakes. I used my depression, I

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used my anxiety, I use these things that a lot of people use as a shield. I use as a

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springboard to to push forward towards what I want out of my life. Period. And the story,

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a lot of people they don't do that because either they don't like to stand or they don't

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have the will to get back on the horse and ride that bucking bronco. Breaked out horse.

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One of my favorite movies when I was a kid was Spirit about a horse who was ironically

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voiced by Matt Damon. But his whole thing was he was a wild horse that was caught by

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cowboys and sold to the US Army and they couldn't break this horse. They couldn't break him.

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And you then met this Native American man who understood him as a, you know, as a wild

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spirit basically. And that's where he got his name from. Beautiful story. I don't think

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it's based on a true story, but it was back when DreamWorks and Hollywood can make movies

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about actual stories and not just pure propaganda and lies and annoying crap. But that's what

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you have to understand. And that's something that I have to remind myself all the time

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that you have to invest in yourself and you have to trust yourself to see things through.

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Might not get it the first time, second time, third time, fourth time, fifth time, but you

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will if you keep at it and you adjust and you refuse to quit. It was, I think it was

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Babe Ruth who said it's hard to beat the man who doesn't give up. My friends don't

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ever give up. Adjust, reevaluate, but never give up, never quit. I'll be honest, the

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closer I get to my destination, the more I'm like, I have no idea what to expect. I

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have no idea what's going to look like. I don't know anything about like what's what's

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to expect outside of the little bit that I know about the profession. But you know that

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fear can creep in and it could cripple your joy of this new fresh start and never let

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that happen. You got to be conscious. It's not going to happen naturally unless you're

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just a special breed of person have to be purposeful. You have to remind yourself why

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you set out to do this. Why you said I'm going to do this. I will do this and we're going

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to see it through. Have to remind yourself why you set out to do this. Whatever it may

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be for you could be personal, could be professional, could be spiritual. I don't know what it is

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for you, but you have to understand that you can do it. You just have to be willing to

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stick it out the long haul might take you 20 years, but you can do it. But you have

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to believe that I could say it for the next 20 years every day to you. If you don't believe

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it, it's then it's not going to make an impact on you. My friends, I'm encouraging you to

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not give up and to learn from my mistakes, learn from my friends mistake and understand

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that you're not alone. If you have these feelings, these uncertainties that might saturate the

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psyche of your mind, make you question your sanity even. But my friends, you are not

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alone and there is a lot of us out here who understand that struggle, who are here to

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give you advice you wanted. If you want to talk about it in the comments, go ahead, talk

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about your story now you've made it through or how you're in a thick of it and you just

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need to vent. I'm here for you, man. I'll read it. I might even heart the comment. I'll

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be there for you because I'm in the middle of a toe. And even if you watch this video

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a year from now or two years from now, I get here to you. This is the last time I'm going

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to be in a situation. You'll be the last time they are in the situation either I'm

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willing to bet. I'm on a wager that that's the truth. So my friends, keep your chin

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up, keep your head in the game. Don't focus on all the things that could go bad and instead

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of focus on why you've set your mind to this what you came to do. Why did you decide to

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do this? What pushed you over the line to even try and focus on that? My friends to

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care yourselves. I might do another one of these on the road. If not, I'll let you guys

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know what but I want to I can't wait to set my camera back up again and do those videos.

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But anyways, take care of yourselves. I'm out of here. Enjoy your day. And I'm I mean

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what I tell you if you want to use a comment section to talk about things go ahead. It's

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an open open forum for you. Long as YouTube doesn't block it. I don't delete comments.

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My friend is to care yourselves. I'm out of here. Peace.