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Sean Michael Crane's Unstoppable Mindset
Sean Crane shares his story of Redemption and how his struggles early on in life helped him develop a mindset and perspective that he has used to cultivate the life of his dreams. Sean walks you through his most gruesome moments from seeing his mother overdose as a kid to watching his father in a standoff with police. After years of experiencing a living hell Sean was arrested and faced life in prison. Sean shares the most impactful moments behind bars and how they changed his life forever. After 5 1/2 years incarcerated Sean returned home a different person with a compelling vision to inspire the world. Now, a family man, successful entrepreneur and person of influence, Sean is on a mission to spread his message and impact lives across the globe with his lessons and the same breakthroughs that have helped him in his life to this point.
Sean Michael Crane's Unstoppable Mindset
4 Life-Changing Lessons for Success
Discover the transformative journey of instilling discipline and structure in a young life as I reflect on my experiences with my stepson Mason. Through personal stories and heartfelt conversations, learn how an environment of discipline, routine, and positive influence has empowered him to navigate a world filled with distractions and peer pressure. This episode promises actionable insights into building a successful life, likened to tending a garden where the seeds of effort and hard work eventually blossom into significant achievements.
Join me as I highlight the essential role that discipline, sobriety, and continuous learning play in personal growth. You'll hear about the advice I give Mason, including the importance of waking early and committing to routines that foster self-belief and internal strength. Together, we explore the power of surrounding ourselves with people who challenge and inspire us to be better, creating environments where creativity and encouragement thrive. Share these insights with those you care about, and embark on a journey toward a more rewarding and successful life, ensuring the seeds you plant today yield a bountiful harvest tomorrow.
A young boy with support and structure in the household will thrive in life. A lot of people. They don't develop discipline, they don't have self-control, they don't have structure early on and so as they get older it's hard to develop that type of mentality. The foundation is personal development. If you apply these four concepts into your life, I guarantee in five years you will be a vastly superior version of yourself Oftentimes the most important things in life. The results are delayed and that's why a lot of people quit and give up and they never get to where they want to go. It's like a garden you plant those seeds, you water them, you nurture them, you do everything that you can and when the timing is right, they're going to start to sprout and show evidence of all that effort and hard work.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to another episode of the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast. I'm your host, sean Crane. Thank you for tuning in. I got a really, really impactful, important message today for you guys. So if you're somebody who's a parent, if you're a leader in a business or you just want to level up in your own life, this is going to be a super valuable message. So make sure you hit that subscribe button.
Speaker 1:Share this with a friend or family member, and you know my saying. I always tell you, guys, I'm going to change the world, but I'm just one man and I need your help. I need your support. I need us to do it together. That's how we're going to change the world.
Speaker 1:So the other day I was having a conversation with my son, mason, who's 14. He's actually my stepson, technically right, and a little context there being a quote unquote stepdad. Coming into a young boy's life where you're not his biological father, it creates different types of challenges than just raising your biological child. I have two children that are biologically mine and Mason's my stepson, and I love them dearly, like my children are everything to me. But, being a quote unquote stepdad, there's certain challenges imposed upon you that you have to learn to deal with and how to navigate, and so I've always been very cognizant of that and wanting to just provide Mason with the best leadership, the best amount of guidance I could in his life, the most love and just to be a father figure for him, you know. But we've grown closer through those ups and downs. Now he's 14. He's getting ready to go into high school.
Speaker 1:We just went and looked at a private school here in Santa Barbara that we're going to send him to, and I'm just talking to him often about like things that he can start to do now or changes he can make now in his life that will set him up for success later on, because the opposite happens for a lot of kids. They start off with these small little mistakes or errors or habits and over time, that way of life, you know it sets them up at a disadvantage. And so there's four things that I really talked to Mason about consistently that also apply to you in your life if you want to truly hit that next level. But before I share those four things with you, something really special happened the other day. You know, first we went and toured the school Jessica, my wife and I and Mason. Then he had to go and take an assessment test for three hours math, english reading, comprehension, everything and he came home and he had this grin on his face and he goes hey, they asked me to write about somebody in my life who was really inspiring. And he goes Sean, I wrote about you.
Speaker 1:I wrote about how you teach me things, how you spend time with us, how you're successful, how you talk to me about discipline and why it's important, and fitness and health and all the stuff that we discuss and dude, that was such a profound moment for me because a lot of times especially with children or just any endeavor in life we're putting forth effort, we're trying, we're giving our best and sometimes you don't see the results right away. Oftentimes the most important things in life, the results are delayed and that's why a lot of people quit and give up and they never get to where they want to go is because they don't think it's working, they don't think it's going to pan out down the road. But when it's your children, of course you'll do anything for them, right? So the way I describe it to people, it's like a garden you plant those seeds, you water them, you nurture them, you do everything that you can and when the timing is right, they're going to start to sprout and show evidence of all that effort and hard work.
Speaker 1:And that's what I saw in Mason in that moment. And don't get me wrong, you know, a couple of days later he got in trouble for something and he showed me he's still 14 and immature and he still needs my support, my wife's support, but it was just really cool to hear that he is acknowledging and absorbing the discussions we're having and the principles that I'm teaching him. And it's not easy with a 14 year old, you know, and he's going to school and there's a lot of influences there and friends and peer pressure and he's still figuring out who he is as a young man, going through puberty and changing Like there's a lot of challenges at that age. So on one hand I'm compassionate and empathetic but on the other hand I got to teach him about discipline and structure and make sure I'm there to support him. A young boy with support and structure in the household will thrive in life.
Speaker 1:A lot of people they don't develop discipline, they don't have self-control, they don't have structure early on and so as they get older it's hard to develop that type of mentality. Most of the guys I coach and teach they just lack discipline, they lack grit, they can't get shit done. They're capable but they're fucking weak. They're weak because it's been a habit and a precedent as to how they operate in their lives. And you have someone that goes through tough times or someone that has an athletic background and they played sports and they were competitive in high school. That person has an advantage later on in life because they had structure early on, they had discipline early on and that changed the way that they operate from a mental standpoint.
Speaker 1:So here are four things that I told Mason that if he starts doing right now, he's going to be successful in his life. He always asked me hey, what can I do to be successful? I don't want to get a nine to five and be broke and struggling all the time Like what can I do? What can I do Now? True success from a material standpoint is much further off in the distance for him. You know he's going to have to develop skill sets. He's going to have to learn about business, learn about managing money, delegating, leading people, all these things that we do in business. But the foundation is personal development. So I told him at 14, if you start doing these things right now, it's going to set you up for success in life. And this goes for you listening to this episode. If you're not doing these things, you're you're sabotaging your potential. If you apply these four concepts into your life, I guarantee in five years you will be a vastly superior version of yourself, guaranteed.
Speaker 1:Number one I told Mason get up early in the morning and go to the gym with me every single day. Okay, and the reason for that is because it's hard. It's difficult and on the other end of that endeavor is massive amounts of discipline, forge and belief in yourself. When you get up early and you're tired and you don't want to even get out of bed, and you can get yourself up out of bed and you can push yourself to go to the gym and do a challenging workout, you develop so many internal attributes that will lead to success later on in life.
Speaker 1:First of all, the guy that can get out of bed at four or five in the morning while it's still dark out, he has a why. A person, a man or woman with a strong enough why is always going to find a how. I say that all the time. What I mean by that is that person is keenly aware of why they're getting out of bed. They have some purpose, some drive, some mission that they're on. That is more important than that extra hour of sleep. The people that hit snooze they're not connected on that level and they're sabotaging their potential, because those days and moments add up and the way you do things consistently over time determines who you become. So a couple of times hitting snooze per week doesn't seem like a lot, but it adds up over the course of 10 years.
Speaker 1:And so I told Mason, if you can figure out how to get your butt up early in the morning and you can paint a picture with your mind as to who that's going to help you to become down the road, and you see these scenarios and these results and you almost paint this picture with your mind that's going to compel you to get up each and every day. That's powerful, that's internal, that's your mindset, that's that driving force that creates success in the future. Right, it starts now. Success doesn't just materialize with one good deal, one lucky opportunity, one business that grows overnight, dude. It's a series of decisions over time and for most of you you haven't been doing this. That's why you're not where you want to be.
Speaker 1:So I told Mason you know there's no arena in the world that's going to build your confidence and discipline like the gym. Every day you become a better version of yourself. Every day you see yourself getting stronger, you're setting PRs in different workouts, you sculpt your body over time and internally, mentally, you're like dude, there's nothing I can't do, I just changed my physique, like I just created a metamorphosis through action and effort every day. What else can't I do? Nothing. I'm going to crush all my goals. That's the message that your subconscious mind starts to take hold of. If you're not getting up in the morning and going to the gym, you're not pushing yourself. Why do you think that you deserve or why do you expect to get superior results in your life? You're not putting in the effort. You first have to transform your habits, your actions, who you are. Then you see it reflected externally and in your results.
Speaker 1:Second thing I told Mason is sobriety. I told him sobriety is a superpower. At your age you're going to start to be enticed by friends. They're going to be smoking, weed and drinking. You're going to hear these things at school. You're going to see them. I told him, the person that can maintain sobriety throughout their life has a vast advantage on those that don't. Because getting drunk, smoking, doing these things, even from time to time, it compromises who you could become right. It stagnates your mental and emotional maturity. Okay, it severs the connection to God, which is the source to your master plan and lifelong blueprint, and you're not going to feel this internal engine, this fire, this drive, at the level you would if you were sober and that goes for anybody in the world. There's always exceptions to the rule. Right now, you can probably find people who have done really well in their lives, who drink occasionally, who smoke weed, but there are exceptions to the rule. The vast majority can't.
Speaker 1:And so I'm telling you from firsthand experience the moment I got sober, it was like dude. I was playing chess instead of checkers. I was seeing a 4D instead of just black and white. You know, I've seen all the angles. My mind was operating so much differently. My speed of thought, my memory, my creativity, my passion all of these things came alive inside of me and I thought, oh my gosh, imagine if I felt this way 10 years ago, where I'd be in my life now. And so sobriety changed my life and so many men I mentor and individuals I know personally, it changed theirs as well.
Speaker 1:If you're a young person like my son, mason, or just somebody who at times has struggled with their sobriety, whether it's drugs, alcohol, food, porn, all these addictions, you just need to know this If your addictions are in control of you, you are not in control of your life. You're not in control of how you think, how you feel in your decisions. Therefore, you're not going to get what you want because you are a victim or a slave to your cravings. You are not in control of your life. So how could you ever truly create the life by design that you want? It's not going to happen. Sobriety is a superpower. I promise you. If you get up early and go to the gym every day and you're sober, you will live a much better life long-term.
Speaker 1:Third thing I told Mason is read more books. Pick one book every month related to success, business, mindset, personal development. I personally give him books to read and I told him don't just read them to get through them. Read them to absorb the information and truly understand it. Even if you read 10 pages over the course of two or three days and you're underlying certain statements and you're journaling about them or you're questions about them Like that's what I do when I read books. I dissect those books, I really study them and then you know I not only implement those concepts in my life if it's making sense for me at that time, but I teach them to other people. So I really ingrain the concepts deeply into my train of thought and my belief system Over time. That's had a massive impact on my life.
Speaker 1:Like imagine this you can study people who have success, people who have the results you want right now, like you can study them. They write books. They're gonna give you all their secrets, all their stories, all their information. You can then take those stories, dissect them, take out the little pieces, the golden nuggets that apply to you in your life right now and implement them, and you can do that over and over and over. Success is not that hard to achieve. If you think about, there's blueprints all around you and all you have to do is just seek them out and implement them in your life. Success leaves clues. There's a reason that statement holds weight and carries weight because all you have to do is observe what other people are doing to achieve success and apply it in your life.
Speaker 1:And so I'm teaching Mason. You know a lot of the stuff he's reading in school bores him. He doesn't care about science. You know he's not going to use trigonometry. Most likely, like a lot of the stuff in school is either redundant or it doesn't apply to him and what he wants to do in his life. But I also told him think of it like working out. You're using your brain each and every day to absorb information, to memorize it, to study. You're priming your brain and that muscle in there right, so that later on in life, when you have information that you really want to utilize, you become passionate about something, whether it's real estate, business, psychology, relationships, whatever it is. You've already trained yourself to be able to absorb information, memorize it, study it and then apply it. So I paint that picture for him so that he doesn't just think, oh, I don't have to try in school, right? 90% of the stuff he's learning in school won't help him in life. However, it's going to set a pattern, he's going to build a habit that's going to then serve him later on in life, and especially if he's reading the books that I'm providing for him and I know what direction he wants to go in life and I'm going to coach him and help him and show him the way. He's going to be super successful if he applies that concept.
Speaker 1:Last thing I told him and this is where most people slip, because it's hard, whether it's friends or family. I told him be careful who you spend your time with Now. If you have loved ones right now, who, dude, you're setting yourself up for failure, like there comes a moment in your life where you have to recognize that this is your life, this is your time. You get to do this once and are you going to sacrifice all of your goals and dreams and potential because you don't want to distance yourself from people that you grew up with or that you've known for a long time? That's idiotic. You know there comes a time in your life where you have to say you know there comes a time in your life where you have to say I'm going after my fucking dreams with everything I got and I don't care what I got to do to get there. That's how you become successful. That's the way it happens. It doesn't happen by chance.
Speaker 1:Very few people can hang out with their old friends or hang out in their old neighborhood and be around those belief systems and that way of life and achieve massive amounts of success. That's why you see athletes and people who come from really challenging backgrounds and then they end up going back with their friends or back to their old neighborhood and they get caught up. They either get shot, they get arrested for something, they get robbed. You hear these stories all the time about football players, nba players, rappers. They're still in that lifestyle. You can't be one foot in, one foot out. It's not going to work that way, and so I'm trying to teach Mason this at an early age.
Speaker 1:I tell him look, be around kids that you see are going somewhere in life. Like, build relationships with kids that bring value to your life. It's hard for young people to really understand this, because they want to fit in, they want to be liked. We're all self-conscious. We all want to be around people that make us feel good. But sometimes you're just around people that are making you feel good because they're stuck like you are and good because they're stuck like you are, and so you guys kind of like make it okay for one another to hold back and settle in life.
Speaker 1:That was me when I was young and 15, all of my friends were knuckleheads. All my friends were going through tough times like I was. They were also skipping school, we were smoking weed. We weren't trying or applying ourselves at all. If I could go back in time, I would have played sports and I would have hung out with the athletes, because those kids you could tell they had more initiative, they had more self-respect, they had goals that were still intact. They wanted to be the best athletes. They were in the weight room. They weren't skipping school because they needed to get good grades. A lot of those kids were coming from better households or at least had some type of guidance or role models in their lives. Those kids would have sharpened me. Those kids would have held me accountable, you know. But the kids I hung out with, they didn't. They didn't sharpen me, they doled me. They didn't hold me accountable. In fact, they pulled me down to where they were and I I complied and I wanted to be stuck. But if I had been around people that told me Sean, you know what? Dude, you're better than that. Why are you skipping school and smoking weed? Dude, sean, you're an. You Like you can get out there and be one of the best players on the field, if I had those voices in my ears, maybe it would have changed my behavior, maybe not.
Speaker 1:But the thing is, people that you spend your time with will influence and impact you, whether it's at home or at school or in your business or just friends. Make sure people that you are spending the majority of your time with outside of your children, your wife are people that sharpen you, people that push you to be better. The guys that you work out with. They should be pushing you to crush your workouts, not trying to leave early or showing up late. Right Individuals in your business. They should be bringing value. They should be growing every step of the way. You should see them investing time and energy into the business.
Speaker 1:Like you, guys want to be around each other and create exciting, creative thoughts and ideas. You want to brainstorm. You want to mastermind. Like anybody that you're with, you want to leave that conversation in that room going dude. I'm a better person because of that individual I just spent my time with. If you can apply those four concepts to your life right now, just like my son Mason, I promise you no, I guarantee you you will have a better life in the next decade and the next several decades and for the longevity of your journey on this planet. So apply what I shared. Also, share it with a friend or family member that needs to hear this message and let's go out and make this the best year of your life.
