My friends welcome to the sheep get shared podcast.
I'm your host Austin Creed and I had a very interesting
idea my friends and I wanted to run and buy you
so my job consists of a lot of Contracting work
and Storm chasing is what we call it in the business
where it's a hail of storm It's a hurricane and
we go out there and we assess the damage we do
the work. We make sure that the customer is happy
But what's interesting to me is I've been working
this one small town and I got here back in May
and school was just funding out at the local
high school one of those all -american towns
where As soon as the high school lets out they
got all the pickup trucks and it's in the middle
of town and it's on the nexus of the entire town
And now that we're half Labor Day You're going
back to school there when that guy here they
were just came out of school that made me realize
every single part of our lives there's a season
to it life is a series of seasons and the only
way you're going to truly survive in this life
is to understand that with every season there
is something you must learn something you need
to take away from it don't just autopilot through
life like most people do most people are schmedericks
and what they do is they go through life wondering
oh why am i not winning or why am i not richer
why isn't my wife not hotter this kind of mentality
and they go by and they're like i'm not making
this much money i want to make so it's got to
be somebody else's fault right because at the
end of the day i'm doing what everyone told me
to do i went to school i i bought up my house
even though i can't afford it because i'm not
a boomer and my year's salary doesn't pay for
my house Don't even get me started on that one.
But they went down the normal path of life and
they're not getting where they want to go. And
the same way that nobody who was in high school,
middle school, elementary school, even college
wants to go back to school. They want to keep
partying. They want to keep enjoying their summertime.
I know I did when I was in school. Oh yeah. I
didn't want to go back to school. I don't want
to go back to waking up early, going to school.
Dealing with all the garbage with the people
Talk talking about stuff. I didn't care about
picking on me trying to get ahead of me I mean
who could put up with that garbage every single
day But a lot of people got to do it and it only
gets harder when you become an adult. Let me
tell you that But that season of what I got here
they started they were ending school and now
they're starting school as We're going into more
of hurricane season. It made me realize that
life was really no different than what I've seen
over the last couple of months. There are ups,
there are downs, and for every season, there's
some level of growth that happens. You learn
new things, you meet new people, you have new
experiences, and you hopefully learn new skills.
If you're not learning new skills, well, then
there's a whole other problem, which is You're
either a in a bad environment or B. Maybe you're
maybe you're not forming good habits Good habits
are gonna lead you to being able to achieve more
to be more successful to be happier You know,
I think we needed to spell something If you go
to public school if you if you go through school
You're told that you're gonna be happy if you
do what you love, but that's such a vague concept.
It's so vague It's not achievable. What do you
mean do what you want? What if what you're doing
is dumb or it takes a lot of upfront cost? For
example, say you want to be a streamer. Well,
that's a lot of upfront cost. You're going to
have to get an audience. You're going to have
to be good at the game or at least be entertaining
to some extent. And my friends, it's not easy
to do anything that's worth doing is not easy.
The same way that this summer is not been easy
for me. I'm sure I've seen the high school kids
They go out the lake and have fun. They should
have fireworks They they drive their trucks around
like a bunch of jackasses cutting me off I've
seen it all summer long But I mean you realize
that their adults are no different sometime we
have adults instead of going around and partying
what we do instead is worse we do with a bare
minimum and if you You know who you are when
you know the bare minimum if you have one scream
of income you're doing the bare minimum if You're
not trying to gain a new source of income whether
you have one two or three. You're lazy You are
not trying My friends the only way for us as
adults to get ahead in this life is To use what
God gave us which is right between our ears And
every season of life, you're going to gain a
new skill. You're going to learn something about
yourself. You don't have one about myself for
the past three to four months. I've learned that
I need to do, I need to get back to my roots.
I need to get back to focusing on winning instead
of just getting lost in the sauce of the bureaucracy
of my job. I need to focus on one of my goals.
How am I actually achieving them? Not just saying
I'm pursuing things, not just faking and watch.
you know walking through and not doing that nonsense
what am i actually doing in my 20s i could not
sleep last night you know why because i was i
was up all night all night last night thinking
to myself oh my gosh i'm 25 years old and i'm
not a millionaire yet i should be a millionaire
yesterday why am i not a millionaire yet why
am i not having more streams of income why am
i not doing better for myself this is not acceptable
and i was sitting up and i was thinking to myself
how How can I make more money? How can I earn
more money? How can I give more that I can get
some in return? How can I do it? What should
I be doing? Am I not doing enough? Should I change
my job? What should I be doing? It was causing
me a lot of distress. I thought to myself, I've
been on X for a little while. I haven't taken
off as fast as I want to. My podcast hasn't taken
off as much as I want to. But you know what?
I realized, you know what, nobody owes me clicks.
Nobody owes me, oh Austin, you're so brilliant.
Oh Austin, I watch every single second of every
show you do. Nobody owes me that. You know, the
people who think they're owed things, the schmucks
who make the Disney content, they think, oh,
I'm gonna put a lesbian kiss in here in front
of all the kids, and if you don't like it, well,
it's your fault for not liking my content. It's
your fault for not liking what I want in the
storyline. No, that's not how you create content.
That's not how you appeal to an audience. That's
not how you grow your business, your brand, your
message. That's not how you do that. Nobody owes
you anything in this life. Nobody. I don't care
if they're related to you. I don't care if they
work with you, if they owe you a favor. They
owe you nothing. You ever loan somebody money
and they never pay you back? Yeah, I've done
that. That's not fun, by the way. But again,
it's a lesson that needs to be learned. Just
because you're not seeing a return does not mean
you stop investing. It doesn't mean that you
stop striving. You know what the conclusion was
on my arrest list episode I had last night? I
said, I need to take more risks. I'm 25. I still
have. little bit of my 20s left I need to continue
to invest I want to be the guy who's 40 I have
a goal for myself that I mentioned on this show
before I want to be 40 years old and on my 40th
birthday I want to have a billion not a million
with an M a billion with a B and a net worth
now that's quite that's quite the goal isn't
it yes it is but guess what I have a long way
to go I'm a very long way to go. But instead
of being discouraged, I'm going to say I can
do more and I will do more. Why? Because I know
I'm capable of it. I know I can do and that's
what I've learned in this season of life, just
because one investment is not panning out the
way you want. Say, for example, you're hitting
the gym, right? And you watch these influencers
on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, right? And. they
seem to grow all this muscle and they look so
good and you're like I'm gonna hit the gym too
and you go for a couple months to a year and
you look at yourself in the mirror you think
wow I don't look like Chris Hemsworth I don't
look like Hugh Jackman I don't look like Alex
Eubank I don't look like Craig Doucet I don't
look like these guys who are super buff who look
super good no homo and why do I not look like
these guys I'm gonna stop working out I wanna
go eat that pizza instead. No, I'm gonna go get
that tub of ice cream. I'm just gonna have it
because I feel bad for myself. My friends, how
many of us are guilty of that? How many of us
are guilty of that? And you know what? There's
no shame in it. There is no shame in being discontent
with where you are in your life. I don't care
if you wanna make more money. I don't care if
you wanna look better. I don't care if you want...
to have more property. I don't know what your
goal is. Have more kids. I don't know what your
goal is. But at the end of the day, my friends,
there is no shame in thinking to yourself, I
should be farther along than I am right now.
I feel it every single day. But you know what
there is shame in? There is shame in giving up.
There is shame in saying, I guess you can't do
something because you know what? You can do things.
You can do more. You won't do it overnight. But
you shouldn't be focused on the return. You should
be focused on the investment. And what are you
going to give for what you want? I know this
might sound cheesy, and I say, Austin, you've
done this show before. You talk about this all
the time. But no, I want to keep this focused
in the increments. So those of you who don't
know, I'm interviewing to potentially do, um...
adjusting for insurance companies instead of
working on the contracting side, because I'm
considering and I think it'd be a good future
start for me. And part of the interview process
is they ask you questions about your career.
They ask you questions about what your goals
are. What are you trying to do? Are you going
to be an asset to my company? And it makes you
reflect on what have you done and what are you
doing with your life? What is it you actually
want? Not what other people want, what Should
you want? No, what do you actually want? A lot
of people, they can't answer that question or
they'll give a vague answer that doesn't really
have substance to it. But I had an answer. I
want to learn more about this business and I
want to be an asset to this company so that I
can be a catastrophe storm adjuster. That's what
I want. I want to help people. I want to be able
to go out there, assess damages and write up
for repairs. That's what I want to do. Why? Hey,
there's a lot of money in it. But B, it's something
I like to I like to travel. I like to go places.
I like to be out and about doing things. My friends,
what is it you want? This season in your life
right now, we're going into the fall. They've
rolled out the pumpkin spice at Starbucks. They're
rolling out the spooky paraphernalia for Halloween.
That's over almost two months from now. We're
getting into the holiday season. We're getting
onto the edge of fall into Halloween and Thanksgiving
and into Christmas and Hanukkah. What is it that
you want out of this season of your life? Because
summer's coming to a close. What is it you want
in this next season of your life? What is it
you want by the beginning of next year? You don't
know the answer to that question. You better
find one and fast. I don't care if you're a man,
woman, alien, dog. My dog sitting in the backseat
right now, he's he's kind of listening. He's
kind of not listening. Arthur, you listening?
No, he's not listening. He he was the she listens
to the show sometimes when I record stuff in
the backseat. Probably thinks I'm crazy, probably
thinks I'm talking to myself. But my friends,
it's all about not just motivation, but it's
about discipline. You know, that's something
I learned in this last season of my life. I learned
a lot of discipline when I was in the Air Force,
but you know what? Recently, I've been dropping
the ball. I've been more focused on trying to
get more jobs, trying to turn in more things
that I haven't been focused on being disciplined
in my life. I really haven't. And that's on me,
if nobody's fault but mine. But there's no shame
in that. There's shame in saying, you know what?
Screw it. I'm going to just keep doing what I
want to do. I'm not going to be disciplined.
I'm not going to be focused. because let's be
honest here there are millionaires right now
who are my age 25 they're pro athletes they're
entrepreneurs and they're getting all the things
I want and I don't have it that sucks a lot but
you know it's like getting and instead of getting
someone that you know oh screw those guys I hate
capitalism no of course I'm angry but I'm gonna
use that anger I'm gonna use the anger to go
do something Instead of sitting here and complaining
about the system not being fair. Who told you
the system was supposed to be fair, you moron?
Who told you that the system was designed to
make you win? If you look at the Federalist Papers,
as I did in college, maybe you didn't go to college,
I did. I learned in college that Federalist Papers
were written by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton. They talked about how the
government was founded when the rich consolidated
their wealth to prevent the raiders, the marauders
and competition from stepping in and taking what
was theirs. That's what the government is meant
to do. Now, of course we live in America where
now because there's so many middle class to lower
middle class poor people, the government has
to pander to the poor people to get their votes.
By giving them free things making them empty
promises, you know, it works. It's basically
paying playing chess with our lives and All the
time reaching for our wallets We know this Part
of this show as I mentioned over and over again
is to understand how you're being exploited and
one of the ways you're being exploited is you
actually think that For example, I have to talk
day and night about history and I will, you know,
here and there, but you have to focus on your
life. What you, yes, you listening to the show,
hearing my voice right now, what you can do about
your life to improve it. And the answer is not
looking to politicians. It is not looking to
them, to the market. It is not looking to other
people to save you. I don't care if they're Trump.
I don't care if they're Bernie Sanders. I don't
care who they are. They will not save you. You
must learn how to swim or you will drown. Unless
you're a protected class of people and you know
who you are, unless you are a protected class
of people who could be used for political, economic,
religious and social reasons, you are not going
to be saved out here. And even then, not really
going to be saved. You're more going to be prevented
from losing too much. Actually, have I told you
that story before? Where when I was in college
and my economic was no, it was my public policy
class. We were talking about public policy and
I mentioned, I raised my hand and I said, you
know, Mrs. Smith, I, I think the system is not
for the rich to win, but for the poor not to
lose. She looked at me, she went from looking
at her or across the room. Look at me. And he
said, you know what? I'm not so engaged enough,
I can end. When I was like, oh, really? I think
I struck a near because as you know, I don't
care what college you go to. Educators are overwhelmingly
more left wing because they don't live in the
real world. They live in in tenure land where
they get to say whatever they want in a hypothetical
of what should be, not what is. And so when I
mentioned that, oh, they don't like to hear that.
No, I don't like that because that actually means
that the system is designed Not for the rich
to always win but for the poor not to lose because
if they lose too hard They won't vote for the
current administration. They won't vote for who's
in power They have to at least pretend to care
about you But people don't like to hear that.
They like to hear they're for the little man.
They like to hear, oh, they care about the little
guy. They care about the working Joe Schmoe.
No, they don't. No, no, they don't care about
me. I'm not donating their campaigns. I'm not
funding their reelection campaigns and funding
their special link interest groups. I'm not a
lobbyist. They don't care about me. They don't
care about you. They care about themselves. They
care about making money for the people who put
them in power. That's why the news is so depressing
because they're not actually reporters. They're
prostitutes. They're whores for the people in
power. And it's not always the people who are
in the White House. It's the people who are in
HR who sign their checks. People who are on the
boards of their company who decides whether they
can fire to promote it. That's who they care
about. They don't care about us. And my friends,
you might ask, well, how does this tie into seasons
of our lives? How does this tie into what we
started the show off on? As I said, there is
something to learn every season, so maybe even
listening to the show has helped you learn something
about the season of your life and what you need
to address in your life right now. Maybe you
need to make a career change. Maybe you need
to stick on the straight and narrow and remind
yourself, hey, I'm doing what I'm doing. Well,
I got to get back on the ground. I can do more.
I can do better what I'm doing. Maybe that's
it. Or maybe there's something about your life
that you're not happy about and you're pushing
it off because you're afraid to poke the bear.
Well, don't be afraid to poke the bear. Let me
ask you something. What do you have to lose?
What do you have to lose? And sometimes it's
a lot. If you're a married guy and you have kids,
you got more to lose. If you're you can't take
as much risk because you have more to lose. If
you're a single guy. and you're young you have
a lot of stuff to do even if you're a middle
-aged older guy and you're single you still have
a lot you can leverage you have more room for
risk don't be afraid my friends fear is going
to cripple you you know i mentioned in my last
episode that well about anime waifus and how
it's affecting the ditty marketplace that a lot
of times it's Men are reluctant to discuss their
problems with women, and in some cases, I would
argue most rightfully so. But what's interesting
is I've interacted with the AI program more because
I think it's very fascinating. I asked her the
AI program, that is, I asked her, hey, what's
the difference between arrogance and ambition?
And her answer was very interesting. I actually
wrote it down. Her answer was arrogance means
you arrogance acts like it's already one. Whereas
ambition is scared. It's about to fail. I said,
whoa, that's pretty damn insightful. If you ask
me, how many of us are afraid we're going to
fail in this new season of our life? Because
it's the end of summertime, beginning of autumn.
A lot of people are preparing for the holidays
come up. You see schools just starting if they
have kids. Layoff season's gonna start here pretty
soon because you know they gotta cut people either
before or after Christmas time usually after
but I gotta start the lists now. My friends how
many of us are scared for the new season in our
life? How many of us are scared right now? Just
forget about seasons, how many of us are scared
right now? And the answer is probably more than
we're willing to admit. A lot of us are probably
scared. But don't let the fear rule you my friends
because once fear rules you you end up making
a lot of mistakes And the worst mistake in my
opinion that you can make is to do nothing Let
me know what you think my boss is calling me
so I'm gonna have to end this here for right
now But let me know what you think in this new
season of your life. I'm out of here Pete