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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
Purpose Over Fatigue: Ignite Your Drive
Have you ever wondered why some people seem inexhaustibly driven while others constantly seek escape through substances, entertainment, or other distractions? The answer lies in alignment – that magical state where your daily actions perfectly sync with your ultimate purpose.
This powerful episode explores the transformative concept that when you're truly aligned with your purpose, you never need external stimulants because you already feel incredible every day. Drawing from personal experience overcoming addiction and serving 5.5 years in prison before building a seven-figure business, this raw conversation challenges conventional wisdom about limitations, rest, and what's truly possible.
We dive deep into the psychology of exceptional performance, questioning whether devices that tell us to rest are actually reinforcing artificial limitations rather than helping us break through them. You'll discover why most people dramatically underestimate their capacity and how genuine obsession with your mission eliminates excuses like feeling tired or needing days off. This isn't about toxic hustle – it's about recognizing that extraordinary results demand extraordinary commitment.
The uncomfortable truth revealed here is that 99% of people don't need more recovery strategies – they need to push harder, do more, and realize they're capable of far more than they believe. Whether you're building a business, transforming your health, or pursuing any meaningful goal, this episode will challenge you to reject mediocrity and embrace the discipline required for true fulfillment. Ready to discover what you're truly capable of achieving? Listen now and prepare to be transformed.
If you are constantly hit and snooze, if you feel a lack of motivation, if you're tired often, if you're craving drugs, food, porn, alcohol, all these substances, the reason is is because you don't have alignment towards a greater purpose in your life. When you are truly tapped in, when you are living in alignment with a purpose that drives you, that ignites you, that fulfills you, you never want or need any of that stuff Because you feel so good every single day. Imagine if you or need any of that stuff because you feel so good every single day. Imagine if you never needed any of that stuff because you felt so amazing in your life that to do those things would actually bring you a notch down. That's how I overcame my addiction. That's how I overcame five and a half years in prison. That's how I got out and built my seven figure business and created the life for my family that we always wanted. And that's how I'm gonna leave an impact on this world massive, massive obsession, massive passion, all heart, all fucking drive every single day. Welcome back to another episode of the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast. I'm your host, sean Crane. Thank you guys for tuning in with me. I'm here at the home office slash studio. We're building this thing out and I'm feeling blessed, man, I'm fired up, I'm blessed, I'm freaking inspired, you guys. And the title of this episode is gonna be something about inspiration. I don't know what it's gonna be at, you'll see, but there's a tagline that I use often or something that I tell people. I tell them look, I don't get tired, I'm inspired. And the reason I'm bringing this up right now is because, if you are constantly hitting snooze, if you feel a lack of motivation, if you're tired often, if you're craving drugs, food, porn, alcohol, all these substances, the reason is is because you don't have alignment towards a greater purpose in your life. Maybe you don't even know what that purpose is, maybe you don't know where you want to go right. There's a disconnect there. So if you're not in alignment, you're going to waste time, you're going to be indecisive. And what happens internally? I see this all the time with individuals there's just this huge lack of motivation. Like these are individuals that want to sleep, that want to sit around, you watch TV, you fucking get excited to eat food, you want to use drugs and alcohol because that makes you feel better.
Speaker 1:And I'm here to tell you, man, that when you are truly tapped in when you are living in alignment with a purpose that drives you, that ignites you, that fulfills you. You never want or need any of that stuff because you feel so good every single day that to do those things would actually bring you a notch down. Imagine that. Imagine if all the stuff that you do right now, or most people do in society, to like get a temporary high or fix right. A lot of people drink on the weekends or after work. A lot of people smoke, weed and take drugs I used to all the time. People use food a lot to make them feel better. Porn, sex, tv, entertainment, whatever it is. People do that because they want to change the way they're feeling. So they do that because they think or they know from past experience that temporarily it's going to make you feel better than you currently are. Imagine if you never needed any of that stuff because you felt so amazing in your life that to do those things would actually bring you a notch down. To do those things would actually kill your buzz. It would kill your high. Imagine if that was possible for you. Well, it is, and the key is alignment. Alignment will change your entire life. Alignment to your ultimate purpose to your goals alignment every day in your daily actions. What I mean by that is when you do things every single day that make you feel proud of who you are, that build you up and that incrementally produce the results you want in your life. That's how you create success. That's what alignment is, and from that comes fulfillment, from that comes gratitude, from that comes this energy that's so infectious, so powerful, so potent. It'll change your entire life.
Speaker 1:Now I was having a conversation with one of the men that I mentored the other day. This is a one-on-one coaching client of mine. He's a business owner. I'm not going to throw his name out there and put him on blast, but he hired me because he wants to hit that next level in his life. He wants to feel unstoppable, he wants to wake up driven, he wants to run through those brick walls and annihilate anything in his path to achieve all his goals. I know that feeling man. A lot of you guys want that right and respectfully so. Like that's what we're here to do. If you're a leader, if you're a guy like me who wants to achieve the most in his life, like, of course, that's how you want to feel right, but he doesn't feel that way. He battles depression.
Speaker 1:This client of mine struggles to be consistent with his fitness, with nutrition, with drinking, and we're getting him back on track. But it's not always as easy as just saying, hey, I'm going to be this person, and then it becomes easy Like you have to fight to become that person. You're going to be tempted with the alcohol. You're going to be tempted with your old habits. You're not going to want to get up some days, you're going to be tired. It is a dogfight. If you want to become your best self, it's a fucking dogfight and you got to be willing to wake up every day and rise to the occasion. You're going into battle. Dude, 4 am. Go to the gym eating clean all day, running your business, being there for your kids, no alcohol, no stress relief. It's a fucking dogfight and you got to be ready for it. Ok.
Speaker 1:And so this individual recently said dude, like I just tired last week I took like two days off, I slept to let myself recover. And you know I'm listening to him and I have to remind myself to talk to my clients the way I talk to myself, not to appease them or accommodate them, cause part of me wants to be like oh, dude, yeah, I get it, man, you need to rest, you need to recover. Like, I get it, dude, fuck that, that does not get you to the top in this life. Okay, I didn't get here by resting. I got here by doing more and ignoring the warning signs. You know, I was thinking recently about getting one of those aura rings and back in the day I had a whoop watch and what it does it tells you when you're too stressed, when you're too tired, you need to rest, right when you've had bad sleep the night before and you need to recover.
Speaker 1:And in the midst of this conversation with my client, you know he was telling me about how his whoop watch or I think it was his aura ring was telling him he was really, really stressed and needed to recover. And in the midst of our conversation, I told him you know I was thinking about getting one of those watches. Fuck that, I'm not getting one of those watches. I don't want some device dictating how I show up in my life. I want to be abnormal. I'm not going to fit in this box that everyone else wants to be in. That's called mediocrity. I will never live in that box.
Speaker 1:I told him dude, when I was doing my ultra marathon training, ironman training, I had a Garmin watch right and there would be many days where I was just super tired and super worn down and super over-trained, as people call it. On those days I wouldn't rest, I would go out and run 10 or fucking 20 miles first thing in the morning, just to prove to myself that I didn't live in this world of limitations, that at any time I could choose to do things exceptional and go above and beyond what average people do in their lives. So in that moment I had to recognize like the way I got here in my life is being completely unorthodox, by being completely unrealistic, by being so fucking delusional, so optimistic, so driven that I plow through any limitations in my life. You know, and I've used physicality training running, biking, lifting weights, swimming, ultra marathons, ironmans, like sculpting my physique. I've used that as a catalyst to harden my mindset and to prove to myself what's possible.
Speaker 1:Because when you're tired, when there's pain right, when you're negative in your self, talk, that's when the challenge is real, that's when you want to quit, that's when you want to tap out, that's when you want to sleep in, that's when you want to make an excuse. Oh, I deserve to cheat me. I deserve the drink. Dude, fuck that. No, you don't't. You want to be the best, you want to be great, you want to leave an impact on this world.
Speaker 1:Then you don't get the easy way out. You got to do more work and you got to do it more consistently, like that's what it comes down to. You know, everybody needs to recover at sometimes. Everybody needs sleep. Sleep is good for your health, and that's what leads to optimal performance. What I'm saying is, most you could push yourselves way more than you are of. You are way more capable than you give yourself credit for, and you let a little stupid watch tell you that you need to sleep in and rest that day. Dude, you want to be a top one percenter, you want to be a high performer, and you're letting this stupid watch or ring tell you that you need to rest and take a day off. Like, take a day off when you're fucking 50, when you built your empire, when you retire early and you know, take care of your family. Then you can kick your feet up and read a book for a little bit, right? Here's the truth, though. Why do you think when people retire and kick their feet up, they die early Because they lost that sense of purpose, they lost that drive.
Speaker 1:When you are driven, when you are purpose driven, when you have a goal, when you're waking up every day because you got to make that money, you gotta cover your bills, you gotta build a business Like you're building something, dude you don't have the option to be tired. You can't get sick. You don't get days off, dude. But what happens is when people reach the top or they finally get a little you know financial stability, or they finally achieve some semblance of success they start to backtrack, they start to get comfortable, they start to get complacent, they lose that drive, they lose that initiative and that's when they jeopardize everything. Right? So here's the truth, man If you are truly purpose driven and inspired, you do not get tired.
Speaker 1:Obviously, you know times there. There are times when you need to recover. Okay, you're not a machine, you don't go 24 seven. However, those times when you think you need to sleep in or rest or take a day off, they're drastically cut down because when you have a mission and an objective, your focus, your excitement, your energy is so aligned to that purpose, that place in life that you want to be and you want to get there so bad. You don't entertain these thoughts of being tired. You don't let stuff like this stop you.
Speaker 1:And so the other day, when I was having this conversation with one of my clients, I had to remind myself of how the fuck I got here, how I built this life, how I became this version of myself. And it wasn't by listening to my whoop watch, it wasn't by, you know, just taking it easy. It wasn't by being realistic. It wasn't by, you know, taking rest days and this and that. It was massive obsession, massive action, no fucking excuses every day for 13 years. That's how I overcame my addiction. That's how I overcame five and a half years in prison. That's how I got out and build my seven figure business and created the life for my family that we always wanted. And that's how I'm going to leave an impact on this world.
Speaker 1:Massive obsession, massive passion, all heart, all fucking drive every single day. Now don't get me wrong. There's times when I love to cuddle with my wife and kids. We'll put on a movie and we'll enjoy that time and I earn that time. But I'm not sitting there every day making these excuses, if anything like. I need to check myself sometimes and be like dude. It's okay to enjoy these moments, it's okay to slow down a little bit. In a previous podcast I shared earlier, I talked about enjoying the little moments and not taking them for granted and not overlooking them.
Speaker 1:But, dude, for most of you guys, you have the opposite problem.
Speaker 1:For most of you guys, you need to be way more driven, way more consistent, way more obsessed. You're not fucking tired. You don't get to be tired, yet you never get sick. Okay, you don't live in a world of limitations, right, you? You don't live in a world of limits. You live in a world of limitations. You're not realistic. You're not like everybody else. You're not going to be mediocre. You don't listen to your fucking whoop watch. You don't need to rest all this time, dude. You need to do more. You need to push yourself harder. You need to see what you're really capable in this life and who you can become with massive effort and no fucking excuses. That's what 99% of you men in this world need right now. You don't need another fucking rest day. So, dude, I'm telling you, I want this message to fire you up, not because I'm trying to put you down, because I know how bad-ass you can become and how fucking capable you truly are. You just need to go out and prove it to yourself, first and foremost.
