My friends welcome back to the sheep get your
podcast. I'm your host Austin Creed my friends
You know a lot's happened since last time that
we spoke I Actually, I'll give you all a little
life update while talking about what I want to
talk about because they're all tied in together
It's all part and parcel of the same Cabal it's
all connected because our life, you know when
I think about it our entire lives are connected
we like to turn into certain people listen to
politics, turn certain people listen to comedy.
Well, I thought they'll turn into certain shows
or networks to get the news and maybe a little
bit of levity here and there. And maybe you just
like certain hosts. We want to listen to them.
When you think about it, it's all connected because
it's all part of your life. I wonder what that
sounds like to somebody who listens to one thing
day and night. I really don't. I couldn't tell
you. I think it's important for people to talk
about life because life is up and down. I don't
care if you're big or small, tall or short. Your
life is full of ups and downs. And speaking of
ups and downs, my my life's taking a tremendous
turn in the ups and downs because I've left Georgia.
I was in Augusta, Georgia before, and now I'm
more in the I'm more in Sullivan, Indiana, of
all places. You can believe it. I might be asking
why. Well, that'd be a very good question. Why
is because there is a hailstorm. I'm a contractor,
also part time podcast host. But, you know, ideally,
my friends, when life throws you changes. You
know, the old adage of you want to make lemons
and a lemonade, the missing when I worked at
Chick -fil -A, I worked at Chick -fil -A for
almost two years after I got out of high school,
before I went to college. Well, I went to college
for a year, dropped out because I hated it. Hated
college. I hated it. I went to work at Chick
-fil -A for about a year and a half, then two
years, and then I joined the military. Well,
in between that time, I learned a lot about Chick
-fil -A. Chick -fil -A is a great organization.
But when I had to make the lemonade, you know,
the only adage of you take lemons, you make lemonade,
the ingredient number, there's two parts to that
that I really want to dissect for a moment if
you'll indulge me. Number one is you have to
squeeze the lemons. That takes effort. Not always
very fun. Sometimes you're gonna get a little
lemon juice in your eye, you know, stuff like
that. Not gonna be very pleasant. It's like when
you put a piece of coal into a pearl and it condenses
so hard over time that it becomes into an oyster,
sorry, and it becomes a pearl. The same way that
when you juice the lemons, you get the lemon
juice, right? Maybe a little bit of pulp here,
some with more pulp, some with less pulp. Some
with more meaning in your life some less right?
But then you got to add the sugar now the sugar
is the interesting element in this equation Let
me tell you why because sugar is equally good
for you as In it's good for you in the sense
that it makes you feel good. It's not healthy
for you makes you feel good But it's also not
great for you and you need to find the right
mix between the tangy healthiness of the the
pulp in the juice with the sweetness of the sugar.
You might be asking Austin, you're being very
cryptic. What the hell are you trying to say?
Well, my friends, I was told once that to paint
a picture while telling a story takes incredible
skill. It's not something that everybody could
do. And when you create an analogy for somebody,
if you ask my friends and known me my entire
life, I'll tell you, I use all kinds of analogies,
some. So oftentimes better than other ones. But
in general, analogies are very helpful when it
comes to understanding the bigger picture. And
so when I tell you that I worked for Chick -fil
-A and I learned how to turn lemons into lemonade
in the back rooms in the refrigerator area of
Chick -fil -A, I mean to tell you that when you
handle rejection in your life, rejection is like
squeezing those lemons, right? It's not fun.
It can be very hurtful. You never know what's
going to happen to you, right? That's the difficult
part. But here's the other, but here's the other
part of things. There's a sugar aspect. My asshole,
what does that have to do with the sugar? The
sugar, like I said, is the sweetness. It's supposed
to be the good part of it, but you can't have
too much fun. You can't have too much fun. You
can't have too many things that make you feel
good. Like, for example, you can't have too many
bad habits in your life because you do that,
then it's going to be too sweet and you're not
going to want to drink it anymore. You're not
going to want to keep doing what you're doing.
You need to find that balance in your life. And
I'm helping to train a younger guy. He's about
two years younger than I am in this business
right now. And he has a whole lot of different
life experience than do I. He's a great guy,
but he's having the same problem that I had to
learn that Earth got in his business and then
I've tested on every day, which is rejection.
Now, people on the Internet, especially on this
corner of the Internet, will talk about rejection
when it comes to chicks. oh you got rejected
by a girl move on oh you're not getting the traction
you want in relationships uh you know here go
to the gym okay that's you know infinite level
stuff in the church when it comes to theology
i'll slip into theology for a second if you don't
like this type of content i don't know what to
tell you let's say stream of consciousness show
i you know when you think about something and
you're saying for example i'm in my truck right
and i'm driving on the highway and When you're
looking at the highway and you're just, you're
letting your mind wander. You go off thinking
about, oh, you know what? I want pancakes to
maybe, uh, X, Y, or Z about Donald Trump to all
of a sudden. Oh, wait a minute. Maybe I need
pest control because I saw this, this, this truck
go five. Maybe I need to make sure I'm not getting
ants in my house. Like all kinds of different
stuff is what, this is what happens to the human
mind. This is what happens on this show. I don't,
I need a script. So needless to say, when it
comes to rejection, Often times it's highlighted
when it comes to romance. But what about professional
rejection? What about the guys like me, who will
go door to door, who make cold calls, who send
cold emails, who deal with rejection in the professional
setting? Now there are some of you who will never
have to deal with this, except on a minor level.
Maybe you want to change your job and you don't
get to go to the job you wanted, right? Now,
I'm not downplaying that, don't get me wrong,
but it's not the same thing as the professional
level of rejection that you see in certain areas,
but rejection is rejection. Nobody likes to be
told no. Nobody likes to be told, hey, you know
what? No, I don't like what you have to offer
me. No, I'm not going to accept what you're giving
to me. No, I'm not going to give you what you
want. This, this can really damage your self
-esteem. It can really put you in a dark place
if you're not careful. I don't care if it's with
romance, with professional, with personal, I
don't care how it is. It can affect you and it
will if, and I mean only if, you do not allow
yourself to be taken advantage of. If you allow
yourself to be taken advantage of and you don't
have boundaries, you don't have the ability to
say, wait a minute, hold on a second. I am not
gonna let this person or let this company or
let anybody else dictate to me that I am worth
X, Y or Z. You can't allow you do that. You will
have low self -esteem and you will not be able
to build yourself back up. You will not be able
to recover. And I don't want you to be going
on a looking like a cardiac arrest patient with
your mood day and night thinking to yourself.
Oh, I feel great right now. And all of a sudden,
wow, I can't stand living anymore. And then the
next day you're like, wow, I feel great again.
Or I have me. I feel average today. I don't want
you to have those problems because if you have
those problems. Your life is going to be every
day is that I feel like a week and every week,
so I feel like a month. And before you know it,
you're aging 10 years in one year. And you're
not going to have that stability that all men
crave. Let's not. Let's not beat around the bush.
We as men, if you're a man listening to the show,
you want some level of stability, whether it's
within your own heart, between your own ears,
or in your home, or anything else. You want stability.
You don't want people to be coming in and out
of your life. You don't want to be feeling like
you're up here, down here, all over the place,
bouncing off the walls. You don't want that.
Because then you're going to feel rejected by
yourself and And you're gonna feel like you've
betrayed what it is you were trying to achieve
by doing what you're doing. Most people, they
don't do things just to do them. We're not robots.
Well, some people might act like bots, but they
have dreams. They have hopes. They have desires.
They have things they want to do and achieve
in life. And you can't get there if you don't
have conviction. If you can't handle rejection.
I don't care if it's from a hot girl on a bar.
or from a homeowner, whether you do what I do,
which is contracting or you're a business to
business salesman with a product and they tell
you, no, any number of things. You're trying
to get a promotion. The boss says, no, you're
trying to switch jobs to another company. They
say no. The word no is very powerful when it
comes to our personal lives as well as professional,
because in our professional lives, people very
rarely What to be told no it takes power to be
told no Because naturally we want to say yes
Naturally, we want to give people what they want.
We want people to be happy We want people to
be pleasant with us. We risk all those things
by being told no or by saying no And my friends
the sale begins when the customer says no Now
don't take that to chicks. Okay if a chick rejects
you move on. Don't don't do this goofy stuff
in the movies where you're like, I gotta make
her fall in love with me. No. No, you don't have
to do that. In fact, I actively encourage you
not to do that because that's stupid. You know,
why would you waste your time trying to convince
somebody to like you and you've got time for
that kind of rubbish? You know, I guess if you're
a teenager and you're in high school or whatever,
you might think you have the time to do that.
My friend, don't do it. Don't waste your time.
You know how many girls there are out here? As
someone who travels around state to city, city
to city, let me tell you, there are a lot of
women out here. A lot of different ones. And
so don't get stuck with one -itis. And the same
thing can be said for professional. I love what
I do right now. I love what I'm doing right now.
But does that mean that if something happens
and I'm going to be devastated? No, it means
I'm going to just have to move on to the next
thing. Until I can do my podcast full -time,
like I'm doing right now, I gotta find a way
to make ends meet. I gotta find a way to put
food on my table. So until then, I'm gonna keep
finding ways to make money and keep finding ways
to add value to people's lives because that is
how you win in life, in my opinion. You have
to add value. You have to provide a service or
a product that people want and need. Speaking
of needs, I need these bikers to stop being annoying
assholes. You know, you're more in the Midwest
of the South, but you get these biker gangs who
look like they're straight out of a you really
hear them in the background. We're straight out
of like a son of anarchy TV show set. Oh, man,
every time I see a guy, every time I see a little
unit of like bikers like this, all I think about
is the South Park episode where they changed
the meaning of fag. to annoying a -hole Harley
Reiss. Every time I see a group of these people,
of these schmucks drive by, every time I see
these schmucks drive by, I think of the same
scene from South Park, where Carmen's like, no,
no, nobody's intimidated, actually. You know,
they know that anybody who wants to be as loud
as possible and dress up to get attention are
you guys and 15 -year -old girls. I just want
to let you guys know, you're fucking fags. That's
the line that goes through my head. Every time
I see these schmucks driving by, every time,
like they're Thor with Mjolnir, something lightning
on Asgard. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable
to me. I don't know how they do it. To me, it's
annoying as hell, but I guess some girls find
that hot and some dudes find that cool, I guess.
Not me, but different strokes, different folks,
I guess. Anyways, see, that's rejection. I guess
I am technically rejecting their idea of what
is cool. Now, of course, people like that are
going to pretend like I don't care what anybody
thinks. I'm so cool. I have a Harley and a cut.
They're going to tell me they don't care. But
a lot of times people will pretend like they
don't care when they very much do. It affects
them more than you actually think it does. And
that's what I'm trying to get at. It's easy to
not be affected when like showing it. But oftentimes
you, yes, you listening to the show, you can
get hurt psychologically if you feel this level
of rejection. But. It's just funny to me, now
there are now these dudes are next to me, it's
so funny. I don't I don't get why people think
this is cool, I think it's lame, but, you know,
I guess it's neither here nor there, but, you
know, it is what it is, I suppose. Like. Isn't
that the sound? People get off on the sound of
the bikes? Is that what it is? And of course,
they're such assholes that they can't even wear
it, like, they can't even, they gotta wear, have
their music be as loud as humanly possible on
the bike as opposed to, you know, using like
an earpiece or something. Oh my god, you guys
hear this, right? I might be muff, I'll probably
muffle most of it out. Jock and hear this crap,
right? God, I mean, I need Carmen here to meet
Carmen right now. This is unbelievable. Anyways,
my friends, I'm about to get to my destination.
I have to offload some of my equipment into a
new place and try to move into before I get back
to hit the streets again to try to get some trying
to get some people some help when it comes to
roof repair. But. My friends rejection will come
and find you. I don't care what avenue of your
life it is, but don't let it drag you down Don't
let it Affect you to the extent that you don't
want to be motivated. You don't want to achieve
things anymore. Don't want to get you to that
point Use it as a means to better yourself Don't
let it drag you down and affect who you are and
what your goals are If any time that ever happens
to you, I want you to think of a scene in your
head the way I do with mine. And no, it's not
the Cartman one. There's a scene from Lion King
where Mufasa's voice comes from the clouds and
he's talking to Simba. Simba's in a dark place.
He's questioning his life. He doesn't know what
he needs to do. And he hears his father's voice
through the clouds. And he says, remember who
you are. I need you. to play that on repeat every
time you question yourself and your motivation
for what you're doing in your life remember who
you are and why you've set on the path you're
on to achieve the things you must not want to
but must achieve do that for me let me know how
it works for you because it works wonderfully
for me my friends take care of yourselves i look
forward to hearing more about how y 'all are
doing as you hear about the changes in my life
and you'll continue to hear more because my life
is incredibly busy but I'll upload as much as
I possibly can. My friends take care of yourselves
and I'm out of here. Peace.