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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Sheep Get Sheered podcast.

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I'm your host Austin Creed.

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My friends, I think we need to revisit a couple topics from before and mix in with a couple

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new topics for today.

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Reason I say that out the gate is because, have any of you ever been burned out?

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I'm in lead with that question.

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Y'all ever been burned out before?

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Gone through this grind in and grinding and then you're just not seeing the results you

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want to see and you keep pushing, you keep trying new things, you keep going up the bat,

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you keep swinging, keep getting strikes, you keep striking out, but you keep getting back

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up to the plate.

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Is that something familiar to anybody?

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Burnout effects is all from time to time.

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Some of us more than others.

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And that's why I think we need to talk about it today.

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The first time I'll start with myself before I open up the floor for you to share your

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comments in the comments below.

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But the biggest burnout I've ever experienced was when I was in the military and day in

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and day out, I go to what we call the weapon storage area, the WSA.

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We go in there every morning, exactly about 6 30 to get in there by seven.

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And we usually work to about seven again.

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We usually worked about 12 hour days.

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10 12 hours was pretty standard for us.

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And I'm not saying that to say boo boo.

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I'm saying it because when you're doing something, especially something new or something unfamiliar,

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something you're not really good at, and you haven't found a way to enjoy or don't fully

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enjoy yet, it can be absolutely exhausting to the point where you push and you push and

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you push and then it's almost like your car breaks down when you don't take care of it.

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You start to break down.

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I've experienced that and frankly, you know, my friends, I like to mix in a little bit of

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vulnerability here and there.

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So get ready for it.

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If you think this is weak, you're more than welcome to skip fast forward on the next minute

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and a half.

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But I'm an experienced as a burnout myself, quite frankly, and it's taking a toll on my

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physical health.

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And despite the fact that I go to the gym every day, despite the fact that I eat, I try

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to eat as healthy as seemingly possible.

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In fact, I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to nutrition.

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I experience it more often than I like to admit.

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And so my friends, I want to open the floor up to you.

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Now I want you to tell me, how have you dealt with burnout?

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Maybe maybe it wouldn't just help me in my house, someone else who listens to the show,

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though they're dealing with burnout or they're dealing with just they're not low in their

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life right now.

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And they're going to go on through the motions and they're really actively making an effort.

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I'm not talking about the people who fake making an effort.

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Those people know that that's some fake garbage.

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Now I'm talking about people who actually are trying in their trying and they're trying

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and it's just not panning out the way they want and they're actively doing they're trying

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to they're trying new things.

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They're trying new avenues.

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They're trying everything they can and it's just not connecting up the way they envisioned

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time after time after time.

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And this is what can lead to burnout.

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And my friends, we need to discuss this because as men in this space, we like to talk about

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self improvement.

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We really had to talk about developing ourselves into the best we can become right.

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So here's the thing.

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We like to talk about the destinations that we're all shooting for.

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Well, we don't talk about the journey itself.

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Well, my best friends.

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He gave me a quote a couple of weeks ago that's just stuck right free in my head ever since

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he said it.

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He said that there was one of two ways that a great story always began according to I

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think he said it was.

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It wasn't T.S. Elliot, who was it?

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It's going to come to me later.

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I'll come.

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Tolstoy.

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It was Tolstoy.

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There we go.

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It was Tolstoy who said that a great story begins one of two ways.

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One was a hero goes on a journey or to a stranger comes to town.

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And ever since I heard that, I thought to myself, wait a minute, there's something to

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be extrapolated from this.

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And then we talked yesterday.

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Great show if you missed it about honoring our ancestors about pushing past what is normal,

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pushing past our own ambition to harness the energy of past generations to say, you know,

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what, my grandparents, parents, great grandparents, etc.

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They sacrificed so that I could be here and I owe them a debt for pushing themselves for

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sacrificing and paying it forward.

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All this to say, we need to discuss burnout and how to avoid it, because on our path to

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become the best on our path to get the girls we want to own the car we want to own the

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house we want to live in the town we want to have the lifestyle that we want to have.

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It's easy to just talk about the oh, this is what I want.

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And this time I'm going to get it.

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What about the day to day the month to month the year to year?

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Where's that conversation?

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I don't hear it at a whole lot.

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This is where burnout comes in.

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This is where people start to experience really tough adversity.

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And the more you try to climb the wall and you keep falling, you keep scraping bumping,

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you know, whatever.

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It's so hard to just keep going.

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Our man wants to find insanity as trying the same thing over and over again and expecting

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a different result.

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I would care to say that that is not insanity per se, because there's a fine line between

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insanity and perseverance.

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Now if you're trying the same thing over and over again and you're not adjusting, you're

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not adapting, you are not saying, okay, this didn't work.

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Let's try that.

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This didn't work.

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I'm going to tweak it a little bit and do this.

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That is what must be done.

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That's what I'm actively doing.

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Here's the problem, though.

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Day in and day out, we can only suffer so much rejection, only so much defeat before

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it gets start to get to us.

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It could start to make us think that we are the failures.

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We are the ones who are not enough.

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We are the ones.

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It's not necessarily what we are doing, but then it becomes us, not what we're doing,

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but us.

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We're not able to distinguish between, okay, this is the problem with my approach, with

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my pitch, with my way I am trying to do, but I've set my mind to do.

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Problem is, if you experience consistent rejection, consistent pushback, consistent disappointment,

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then you are going to unfortunately have to step back and say, okay, am I the issue or

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is it my approach?

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Is it something I am doing or is it me?

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Burnout can often lead us to not enjoy the things that we once enjoyed and it can lead

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us into almost a state of depression, anxiety, and it can lead us to not be able to be as

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prolific as we would like to be into our performance will suffer.

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My friends, when I was a kid, my parents, God bless them had a saying that became, I

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don't know, something that I unfortunately realized wasn't exclusive to them.

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And it was this idea of do as I say, not do as I do.

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And I try actively not to do that on this show.

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I don't sit here and tell you the loyal audience, yes, you listening to the show, I don't tell

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you to do something I myself am not actively working towards doing, practicing or already

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doing.

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Reason being, there are so many hypocrites out there.

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So many people who talk for hours about things that they have tons of opinions about, but

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no experience, no theories, just hot air.

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And my friends, the reason I bring this up about burnout is because I've suffered it.

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I actively gone through it and arguably I am right now.

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And the question is, how have you gotten through with this?

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How have you managed to stay on the path you've set for yourself without compromising your

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goals without giving up and without losing your vision, because your vision is what is

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leading you down that path?

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It's easier to turn out the noise that it is to keep your vision focused.

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It's super hard to not get distracted.

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It's very difficult to not to stay focused and not lose perspective.

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A lot of times we can be stuck with our so far with our own heads that it's difficult

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for us to know what is up, what's down, what's left, what's right, what's foul, what's fair.

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And I'm here to tell you, my friends, you need to remember who you are.

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That's one of my favorite scenes from any Disney movie ever.

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I'll tell you right now, one of my favorite scenes from any Disney movie of all time is

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from The Lion King when Simba is getting, you know, the Yoda treatment from Rafiki where

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he's asking him weird questions, giving him insightful answers and messing with him.

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And then he encounters his dead father, Mufasa in the clouds, and he's talking to him and

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Mufasa says to him, remember who you are.

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And that's checks a chord with it.

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And that goes my father is a king, not because I'm some great man.

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It was Wilbur William, it was William Shakespeare who said, I mean, that there was that one

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there are several ways to encounter greatness.

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Some achieve greatness, some are born great, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

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In that situation, in the example of the Lion King, Simba had glory, I had the greatness

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thrust upon him.

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But he also he was born great.

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He was a man who had greatness both thrust upon him, had to achieve greatness.

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He had to go through all three, a lot of people, they try to get one.

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And the reason I bring this up is not for you to go watch the movie again.

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The reason I break it up is because we must remember who we are, who we want to become

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to keep us grounded, to keep us saying, this is why I'm continuing to risk the rejection.

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This is why I'm continuing to put myself on the limb to not give up to persevere, no matter

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how hard, how frigid, how humid, how barren the climate is, I will not give up, I will

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not give in, and I will achieve the goal that I have set for myself when I shall claim my

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birthright, which is the riches, the lifestyle and the people that I wish to have, not going

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to be free.

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Never you never want anything free.

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I hate the word free and I'll tell you why because it's disingenuous.

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If I say here and tell you, hey, listen to this show and then as soon as you listen to

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it, you'll be you know, this free show and never have burnt out again.

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If anybody's read the 48 Laws of Power, Robert Green says the following in Law 40.

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He says one must despise the free lunch because it is either a trap or it is trash.

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You're either picking up somebody else's trash or falling for somebody else's trap.

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And my friends, there are a lot of traps out here.

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Lot of unfortunate circumstances, individuals, events that we oftentimes don't have control

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over.

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But there is one thing we will always key word always have control over and that is

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how we react to the situations that come our way.

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We always have control over how we react.

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May not seem like in that moment, you got to pull yourself away from the emotion away

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from the stress and away from all the fog that has been seeping into the situation into

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your mind.

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And that is how you avoid burnout.

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That is how you avoid adversity becoming something that destroys you.

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The flame of ambition burns bright in many of us.

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But it is important that that flame of ambition is a signal fire and not something that singes

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us and burns us.

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Avoid burnout.

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You taking care of yourself.

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Go to the gym, very therapeutic for you to throw around some weights and take care of

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yourself.

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Number two, if you are smoking or drinking too much, you got to knock that off.

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Stop it.

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Go 30 days with none.

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And if you can't do it, that means you're addicted.

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That means you got to do something about it.

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My friends, that's only two of the things that I have personally been doing to try to

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avoid and curtail this burnout that I am been personally feeling over the last couple days.

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This might work for you and it might not.

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But it is important for us as men, us as brothers in mind and in thought and in spirit for us

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to understand that we are not alone in this fight and that we need to bring up these types

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of topics more often because then it helps us know that we're not alone and that there

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are different alternatives to what we are currently trying to overcome the adversity

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and not be singed by the flame of ambition.

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The flame of ambition is meant to guide us, not burn us.

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My friends, let me know in the comments below.

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Let me know how have you been burned out before and how have you gotten through it?

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How would you avoid burning yourself out if you've experienced it before and now you're

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actively trying to prevent yourself from being in that place?

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How have you done it?

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Might help me, might help anybody, somebody else who listens to the show who wants to hear

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this, who needs to hear this because they themselves are going through a hard time.

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My friends, you let me know below.

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Anything you want to talk about, you're more welcome to share it.

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This is your space.

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I don't delete comments, even the ones I find very distasteful, I don't delete them.

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We are here to exchange notes.

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We are here to get to the finish line together to claim our birthright.

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My friends, you take care of yourselves.

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Avoid the burnout to get back on the front lines, fight your way to the freedom that you

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are trying to actively earn.

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Take care.

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I'm out of here.

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Thanks.