Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheered podcast.
I'm your host, Austin Creed.
My friends, in the meantime, don't worry, we'll get the video back up and running.
Should be on Sunday, so don't worry.
You only have to do audio only for a little bit while longer.
I apologize if I sound like I'm really tired because I am.
I started started roofing yesterday and it's just been nonstop.
Lot of work, but it's rewarding.
And that's why I want to talk about pushing past mental discipline because I'll tell
you something right now.
It's really easy to sit back in your bubble.
Very easy to sit back and say, you know what, I'm going to take the easy route or I'm going
to take the path that I'm comfortable with because to me, comfort is a poison that slowly
takes you out because comfort, it doesn't motivate you.
Comfort doesn't lead you to go any comfort.
Once you sit back coast crew, put out cruise control and just go down to me.
The safe, comfortable route would be to get a corporate job of nine to five me or just
just a job that stability.
To me, I couldn't do it.
God bless you.
If that's you and you love it, that's great.
But I can't imagine doing a thing like that.
To me, that's one of my worst nightmares because it just seems like a way for me to wait to
die in plain English.
A lot of people, they're not living, they're just waiting to die.
Most of them are married men, by the way.
Oh, they all you.
Oh, yeah, they don't tell you that part.
That's unfortunate truth.
But my first, I want to discuss mental discipline and how to develop it.
And I'll tell you from personal experience, how I've developed and how I continue to develop
it.
I'm not some monk who could, you know, have a stick broken on his neck.
I'm not telling you I got that level of mental discipline.
And all I will, what I will tell you is this mental discipline is only created through
vanquishing fear.
You have to convert your fear into fuel to drive you forward.
There's no way around it.
If you want to sit there and whine and complain and excuses, you're welcome to do that.
But if you complain, you're going to stay the same as you are right now.
And when you have fear rule you, you can't be surprised when you get exploited and you
get used and you don't live up to your true potential.
You know, I'll tell you guys right now what's going on in my office.
I'm new.
I've been here for two days and I've already scoped this place out pretty well to figure
out who is doing who's who, who is doing what and why.
And I'll tell you it's very easy for guys in this business to coach, play it easy.
They don't want to knock doors.
They don't want to put in the work.
They don't want to do those things.
Why?
Because that you deal with rejection and one of the beauties of this show and one of the
beauties of this community that we're creating over here is I've faced adversity for over
the past year and a quarter creating this little niche for us.
This little niche for us.
And I haven't done it alone, but I will tell you early on, nobody wanted to listen to shit.
I had to say nobody cared about what I said.
Nobody cared about what people commented.
Nobody cared about any of that shit.
Why?
Because there was no reputation.
There was no kind of voice about it.
You know, I'll be honest back in the day.
Funny story.
I see, I see Eric's going through shout out to Eric.
He's a great member of the community.
I see him going through some of my shorts.
Fantastic.
I appreciate it.
But those are like six months old.
I'll tell you back in the day, not that I didn't know how to talk.
I mean, talking isn't all that difficult per se, but I didn't know how to deliver a speech.
I didn't know how to impact how to share my feelings, emotions and thoughts into very
direct speech, very entertaining speech.
I'm not a master of it.
Don't get it.
Don't get it twisted.
I'll pretend like I've reached a pinnacle and I can't get any better.
There's no way that's true, but I will tell you over time I've gotten better at it and
the numbers reflect that and your support also reflects that you wouldn't listen to
me if I was a boring piece of shit.
You want to listen to me if I didn't know what I was talking about.
I wouldn't listen to me either.
I wouldn't listen to some dude who didn't know what he was talking about.
But you can tell that both myself and other guys on this channel, we know what we're
talking.
We like to have tough conversations and deal with very unpleasant realities, not because
we necessarily enjoy it, but because it must be done because everybody else is discussing
fantasies, what should be what ought to be.
And what we're talking about is the stuff that you it's like it's more explicit than
triple X pornography, because you can't you can find porn.
You can't find the truth.
You can't find raw reactions, raw reviews and these raw conversations that we have almost
every single day.
It's hard to find out there.
If I found it every day that I would not do this show.
If I found it every day that I could listen to something do talk about the realities of
the world, I wouldn't need this show.
But instead of listening to a bunch of talking heads, we don't know what the hell they're
talking about.
Or maybe they know a little bit, but then they have to water it down for views.
I got to water it down for the corporate sponsorships.
They got to water it all down.
And I don't want to do that.
I never want to do that.
That's why I don't ever expect to stay at 100k.
I don't ever expect to stay at 10k.
Because at the end of the day I don't care about that type of stuff.
Would it be cool?
Yeah, of course it'd be cool.
Am I going to sit here and beg you guys to subscribe?
Am I going to beg you to like the video?
Am I going to beg you to do the...
No, hell no!
I didn't do any of that shit.
Why?
Because if you were late you're going to stay, if you hate it you're going to leave.
End the story.
How you develop discipline is you don't fear failure.
You don't sit there and worry about what could be, what ought to be, what you...
You know, all these things that could go bad.
And trust me, that's what my brain naturally defaults to as well.
That's what you do.
I do the same thing.
I'll be honest with you.
Going up to knock on people's doors and tell them they got damage on their roof and I'm
here to fix it.
That's tough work, man.
Why?
Because I got to go and talk to people that I don't know.
To talk about things that they don't really understand and it's hard to fully explain
that I'm still learning it myself.
Guys, it's tough work and it's very hard to help people when they don't want to be
helped.
And in the same way, you have to help yourself.
I don't know, it's like every girl on TikTok will put her chest up in the camera all talking
about how you need to fall in love with yourself, man.
Like, don't talk about that type of vague crap that sounds insightful.
I'm not trying to sound like some fake guru who sounds like he knows everything because
he knows how to say something that sounds vaguely intelligent or vaguely deep.
I don't want to do that.
That's so stupid.
That's not what I'm trying to do.
You want to know how to develop mental discipline?
Number one, ask yourself, what do you fear the most?
Well, what do you fear, period?
I don't care if it's spiders, I don't care if it's public speaking, I don't care what
it is, you gotta do that.
You gotta do that and you gotta do it quickly because once you do it, you'll realize it's
actually not that bad.
Or maybe it's bad the first time, then you try it again and then again and before you
know it, you're like, man, this ain't shit.
I got this, this is easy, this is why I'm dumb.
That you wouldn't have known unless you would try it.
If you would just sat back and been like, oh, but I don't know, but then you would have
never figured it out.
So whatever it is you're afraid of, embrace that shit.
Don't sit back and make excuses.
Don't sit back and say, oh, but it's not important because no, no, forget that tight, forget that
garbage.
No, embrace your fears and do something about it.
You want the wealth, right?
You want the money, you want the fine ass chicks, you want the nice body in the gym.
Well, then that's gonna take some fucking work.
That's not gonna just show up.
That's not gonna just happen.
You have to draw things that are hard because that's gonna build confidence.
I hate it when I listen to these teachers, these state gurus on the internet, these teachers
in high schools, middle schools, colleges.
These parents, I hate it when they're like, oh, you need to have self-esteem.
Well, what if you have no self to esteem?
What if you have no idea who you are?
What if you only know what you don't like and you have no idea what you want to do, who
you are?
That's why I can't stand people who talk about self-esteem when they have no idea who they
are, what they want, what they want.
Nothing.
They have no idea what they want.
So therefore, if you want to develop self-esteem, you have to find a sense of self.
How do you do that?
Well, it's pretty straightforward.
You have to decide who it is you want to become.
When you're a kid, you watch movies about cowboys and Indians.
You're like, oh, I like the cowboys.
So I'm gonna dress up like a cowboy.
And I'm gonna have cap guns.
And I'm gonna have spurs on my boots.
And I'm gonna have a cowboy hat.
And I'm gonna have a sheriff badge.
When you're a kid, that's how it works, but when you become an adult, guess what?
A little more complicated, right?
Wrong.
It's not complicated.
In fact, it's only as complicated as you make it.
One of the quotes I heard once is when I was a little bit younger and when I was still
in college, my early year of college, I heard a saying from a guy who was completely obsessed
with Napoleon Hill.
He was a very successful radio personality and his name is Earl Nightingale.
He talked about the idea that it was no more difficult than learning how to drive an automobile
and it was to find your dreams and accomplish them to make all the money you wanted.
It was no more difficult than learning how to drive an automobile.
Now, you might laugh at that and scoff and say, Austin, that's stupid.
How in the world could you say that?
Well, I want you to pause for two seconds and I want you to ask yourself what we're
talking about right now.
We're talking about discipline, right?
We're talking about how you can develop a sense of discipline in your life.
We're talking about how you can decide for yourself who you are and resist, resist, not
the subconsciously accept, not tolerate.
We're talking about how you can refuse other people's limitations, how you can embrace
your own free thinking.
One of the hardest things to do in this life is to be a free thinker.
It's not hard because you can't do it.
It's hard because it's penalized everywhere that you go.
That's why it's hard.
It's hard because the average person out there is a product of what they consume.
And the same one that your mother told you that you are what you eat, people are what
they consume content wise.
They consume a lot of content about Democrat Republican, then they're probably a Democrat
or Republican.
They consume a lot of content about being a boss babe and all this type of crap and
they're probably a feminist.
You see how that works?
You tend to become that which you surround yourself with.
And the same thing could be so with your friends.
If you'd shown me who your friends are, your top five people you hang out with on a daily,
weekly, monthly basis, I could probably tell you exactly who you are.
What your thoughts are, who you're going to become.
Why?
Because we are a product of the people we hang around in the content that we consume
in the same way that our body will show what we consume from a food and drink standpoint.
It's no different.
So when it comes to discipline, you have to find a reason to be disciplined, whether
it's for the gym, whether it's for the money, whether it's for the women, I don't care
what it's for.
It's for you to decide.
And all three of those things are connected, by the way, in case you didn't know it.
But everybody has to start somewhere.
You can just start in all three areas of one.
I mean, you could try, but it's extremely hard.
It's all about finding what you want, what you're willing to sacrifice for what you
want.
Because if you try to sit here and tell me that you don't have to sacrifice to get what
you want, you can leave the show right now, because you are not ready.
Free is one of the biggest lies going right now.
One of the biggest scams ever created is the word free.
There is no such thing as free.
Even if it's so called free health care from the government, free the housing, whatever,
it's not free.
It just means that you are not paying for it.
Someone else paid for that.
Nothing is free.
Nobody works for free.
They are hoping to get something.
They are getting something.
It is impossible to work on free.
Free doesn't exist.
Now we like to hear it because it makes us feel good, like we gained something.
But there was a very wise man named Robert Green, who wrote a book called the 40 Laws
of Power.
And in this book, he talks about how the different laws of the universe and how you
can reach the heights of power through both manipulation, which is very Machiavellian
and through common sense.
The 40th law of the 48 laws of power states the following, the spies, the free lot.
Why?
Because it is either not worth having or is more expensive on the back end.
It is a trap or is not worth having.
And yet so many people, they jump on the word free.
They want free this, free that.
No.
There is no such thing as free.
In fact, free women, free fast tracks, whatever are usually the most expensive things you
will ever pay for.
It's one of the reasons why I push surrogacy so much is a lot of people think that it's
too expensive and I'll just go, I'll get a wife or I'll get a girlfriend or whatever
and we tell you something.
That's not free.
That is not free.
You think that because you're not showing out Benjamins, which actually you are, you're
spending it on dates and not just giving it.
You're using a middleman instead of a to the wholesaler, but we'll ignore that for two
seconds because I'm not encouraging you to break the law anyway.
Well, I'm telling you was just unfortunate reality that you I can tell at this point
you're shocked that you're hearing this right now.
You thought you were to turn the show off because you're bored or because you can't
take it anymore, but you're still listening.
Why?
I don't know.
Maybe it's the fact that my voice is comforting to you.
Maybe it's the fact that you know it's true.
You hate you hate that it's true, but you the more you listen, the more you take it in,
you're like, oh, shit, this guy knows what's up.
God damn.
I don't like it.
But he knows what he's talking about.
Trust me, you think I enjoy a lot of the realities of the world?
Absolutely not.
But guess what?
That doesn't make him any less real.
That doesn't mean that my perception is inherently flawed.
It just means that my perception might not match yours.
But that doesn't mean that the reality doesn't exist just because we don't want it to or
because we don't see it in exactly the same way.
My friends, it's important for us to identify where in our lives we're not matching up to
whether it's our standards, which are most important.
Or that even those around us who we really respect, not just anybody, but those who we
respect, this is how we will develop mental disappointment.
They're doing things that are hard, being persistent, shutting up and listening to people
who are more knowledgeable than ourselves.
And we must never waver on what we want.
We must never stop shooting for a goal or there is no reason to leave the starting line.
That will change over time, but it is important to remind ourselves why we started down the
path we are on, why we have chosen to make these sacrifices because there will come a
time you mark my words, where you will be unsure as to whether you should keep going
or you should abandon ship, or you should trade in for something else.
I want you to pause if that ever happens.
I should pause.
And I want you to think back.
I want you to say, why did I set out to do this?
What is it that I stand to gain or to lose by doing this thing?
And is important for you to then make a rational choice so that then you can make the choice
that will benefit you the most and benefit the overall long term, not just the short
term, but the long term goals that you've set for yourself.
My friends, we will continue to talk about this and many of the topics as time goes on.
But I would love to hear what you have to say about mental discipline.
If you disagree, I am very curious to see what you have to say as maybe you thought
of something that I did not, or you have a life experience that I myself have not experienced
or don't have.
And while I may be the guy with the microphone in a big mouth, I don't know everything.
One of the keys to realizing and capitalizing on knowledge is to realize you don't know
everything, knowing what you don't know.
Because if you don't know what you don't know, well, then you're in the dark.
If you know what you don't know, you're in the dark with a light at the end of the tunnel
that you're walking towards.
My friends, take care of yourselves, ask hard questions to define those hard answers if
you could find them might take you years or hours depends to carry yourself.
I'm out of here.
Do you have any ideas for topics do you want to discuss?
I will do it in this weekend if you want.
I'll do the shows for all of you this weekend on topics that you want, whether it's similar
to this or something totally different.
Take care of yourselves.
I'm out of here.
Peace out.