Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get sheared podcast of your host Austin Creed.
It's gonna be a shorter piece, my friends, because when you're busy, and you're in new
place with a fresh storm in the roofing business, not a lot of free time not to mention, I
do currently have a girlfriend. And so that also requires a lot of my attention as well.
And you know what? I think what I'm going to do my friends before we get into the subject
of the day, which is staying focused on success is, you know what? I think I'm going to have
to do, um, I got biblical bachelor 2.0, or I'm going to have to do some kind of update
of how you can juggle a relationship if you want to like what to expect and what they're
like if you choose to engage in them. And the pros and cons of it, almost like a second
half to the biblical bachelor discussing the advantages of being single, as well as the
advantages of being in a relationship and then talking about the disadvantages of both
and talking about how to make both work on this journey that you have that I may know
nothing about. The end of it is your journey, not mine. I'm just one man with with my opinion.
That's what the show is one man's opinion with research and history back at all. But
that's I think I need to do that because it's one thing for us an outsider looking in to
say something. It's another when you're doing it. It's another when you, for example, you
ask guys who've been divorced, right? And they'll tell you about what they thought going into
the marriage, what they thought during the marriage and what they now think after the
marriage in the same way that I can talk about a serious relationship as someone who's going
into it and someone who's in it. I don't plan on an ending that I don't at the current
moment. But at least I can talk about what it is before and then during and how your
perspective either stays staunchly the same or it's forced to evolve over time. And that's
human, by the way, very human. I can't stand people who want to sit on the sidelines and
they have no experience and they want to tell people what to do. It's another thing if they're
not willing to understand that you can give advice, you can give your experience. But
the one thing that people will refuse to do is take accountability for their own actions.
I can't stand people who don't want to take accountability for their own actions. I don't
care if they're male, female, non binary, an animal, an alien, I don't care. I'm sick
and tired of people not taking responsibility for their own actions. I hate it. It makes
me sick. That being said, I can't stay too long because I have a meeting I need to get
to with a homeowner. But the one thing I really wanted to talk about in this brief piece that
I think I'll be doing more of because not it's not just for you, it's for me as well.
My friends, I want you to know that as a young guy, I'm 24 years young. It's hard out here.
It really is. You feel as though you should be at a certain level, but you're not. You
feel like you should be making a certain amount of year because you're pouring your life and
your soul into everything that you do, but you're not seeing the results that you want.
You know, one of the things I like about the internet is people talk about their experiences,
but the one fact that I don't like, I don't know if maybe you agree, disagree. Why is
it that so many people will talk about their journey? And then when they talk about their
journey, they'll talk about how they were broke and whatnot, but then they won't go
into detail about what it was like in the day to day, how hard it was, how hard the grind
was and how they almost gave up. And then they show them winning. They like to play down
the part where they were just putting in the horrible, boring, difficult grind to get to
where they are now. Why is it so many people, they don't start it at square one, they want
you to only see when they're winning at step four or step five. My friends, I'm not a rich
man. I'll tell you that right now. If I was, I'd be having a whole camera crew filming
me right now while it's raining outside. In Georgia, that's what I'd be doing in miles
of rich man. And I'm not a rich man. My guy will phone. Okay, who left my setup that I
used to have. You watch some of my older videos, I had a pretty nice setup and I still have
it, most of it anyway. But I don't have the ability to stream the nice stuff I used to
do because I decided to go on a limb and take a chance. I'm still on by the way. I decided
to take this chance, go on the road, find a new adventure for myself. And you know what?
So far it's not been a disappointment on the adventure front. But my friends, that's part
of the biblical bachelor journey is to understand that adversity is not your adversary, it is
your ally. That's what forges people is fire, not the nice comb breeze. No, it's the difficult
thing. Teeth grinding, back aching, mind numbing stuff that you got to go through every single
day. That's what makes you a tough man. That is what will make you a stronger person in
the man that you want to be not sitting back at a comfy office and a cushy job. No, it's
looking to make you where you want to go. That's going to make you just be docile, passive.
I don't want that for you. I want you to win. But do you want to win? Are you too afraid
to lose because so many people are just too afraid to lose. They don't want to risk winning
because that would imply they had the risk losing. And my friends, I'll tell you, I
put myself out of my comfort zone every day when I get into my car. Why? Because I mean,
they're going to knock on people's doors who don't know me to tell to ask for a roof inspection,
or I'm going to deal with the insurance people who treat me like a parasite, or I'm going
to talk about, you know, paperwork and legal stuff when it comes to insurance work and
projects and money and whatnot with people who don't really know me. But I have something
that they need, which is a service that I'm doing out of the goodness of my heart up until
the point where I get paid off a commission. And my friends, that's not easy. If it sucks
a lot of the time, it sucks a lot of time, I'll tell you the truth. But it's been self
improvement at light speed as far as I'm concerned. And the reason I say that is not to show you
how good Oh, Austin, you're so great, and you're so brave. No, that's not the point. The point
is what's stopping you from going out on a limb. What's stopping you from doing something?
Do you work at that same punk ass job you don't like? Or are you rotten to win an office
that might as well be your coffin every day that paperwork becoming like a mummy wrap
on your body and on your mind? Is that what you're doing every day? If that's what you
love, God bless you, go ahead, do it. But if you hate that job and you don't like it and
it abhors you out of your mind, then why are you doing it? Why are you not going out there
and doing what you want to do? Are you risking it? Hell yeah, you're risking it. But if you
want to get out of the rat race of doing what everybody else is doing, working a nine to
five job that you don't like to buy things that you're going to throw away, then you've
got to do something different than everybody else is not doing. Duh, think about it. Think
about it. If you want to be extraordinary, you got to do something extra than what the
ordinary people are doing. Duh, I mean, I'm not trying to talk to you like you're dumb,
but this had to click for me. And the problem is a lot of people they want to do what everybody
else is doing and not get what everybody else is getting, which is just a bare minimum.
And the leftovers are their bosses. That's the problem is people they don't want the
leftovers that their boss gives them, but they also want to be able to, they want to
not have their leftovers of their boss, but they don't want to try to take their boss's
job. They don't want to be out here trying to do something that boss ain't doing. They
don't want to risk something that nobody else is risking, but they want all the payout,
but they don't want to take the risk. And my friends, stop being that guy if that's
you. I can't stand people like that. If you want to go and stay in your lane that's been
carved out for you, go ahead and do that. I'm not stopping you. More money for me to
be made on commission. Go ahead. You can do what you want to do. But don't sit out here
and pretend like you're out here bossing out when you're not. You're out here being
somebody else's paper boy. Don't pretend like you're being a boss because you're not.
My friends, I'm not sitting here pretending like I'm some boss dude and I know everything
and I'm this king. No, I'm a guy who's grinding to become what I want to become. And that's
why you see me with a cheap setup right that I'm lurking with right now instead of this
multi-million dollar crew and editor and everything else. Why? Because I don't have the money for
that. I don't. And my friends, will there come a time where I do? Yeah, you better believe
it. Yes, there will, but it's not going to happen tomorrow. It's going to happen after
I keep grinding my ass off and I eventually get to the point that I want to be at. Not
going to happen tomorrow, like I said, in the same way that you're not going to see a return
tomorrow on the work you put in today. But I got to let you guys go because I'm pulling
up to my client's house right now to pick out some colors for her roof, but then gotten
proved by insurance. So you all have to let y'all go. But I say this to you because I
want to motivate you. I want to push you to get to that next level that I am working towards.
I want you to win. I want you to win with me. My friends, you take care of yourselves
and I got to go because I got work to do. What's stopping you from putting in the work
today? Go and put yourself out of your comfort zone. Don't sit there and be comfortable.
Take care of yourselves, my friends. I got to head out of here. Peace.