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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
Unlock True Happiness: Shift Your Perspective
From the confines of a 6x8 prison cell facing a potential life sentence at just 23 years old, I discovered a transformative truth that would forever change how I experience the world. When everything external was stripped away, the only freedom remaining was the ability to choose my perspective and internal dialogue.
Every morning in that cell, I shifted from dwelling on all I'd lost to consciously practicing gratitude for what remained – breath in my lungs, eyes that could see colors, legs that could move, memories of love and adventure, and the simple fact of being alive. This wasn't naive positivity; it was a deliberate choice about where to direct my mental energy that literally saved me from despair.
Years later, this same practice enriches every aspect of my life – from business challenges to parenting frustrations. Recently when my children complained about school, I found myself spontaneously modeling this gratitude practice aloud: "Thank you for these legs that can run and jump. Thank you for these eyes that can see the sunrise and these beautiful colors." I contrast our privileged complaints with the woman in Mexico sleeping under trash with her autistic son yet still getting up for work each day. The cherry tomatoes we discard would be treasured by those truly experiencing hardship.
Your happiness isn't dependent on external circumstances – more money, a bigger house, or a new car. The most powerful transformation comes from controlling your self-talk and perspective. Nobody and nothing should steal your joy. What perspective shifts might transform your experience of life today? The freedom you seek might be closer than you think.
I didn't know how much time I was going to do in prison or what the future held in store for me. I just knew that, moment to moment, I didn't want to be in pain anymore. Thank you God for another day where I could walk around in these legs. This is amazing. I could run, I could jump, I could go play, because my body feels good. Thank you God for giving me these eyes. Look at the sun's coming up outside. I can see these colors, these trees. This is beautiful.
Speaker 1:You can shift your perspective and find the gratitude. And I'm not saying be a yes man. I'm not saying be a pushover. I'm not saying be delusional or be naive, but pick and choose what gets your focus and what gets your energy, because nobody or nothing should be able to steal your joy. What's going on? People Hope you're having an amazing fucking day, an amazing day feeling blessed. I hope that those aren't just words to you, but you really feel it in your heart. You know, one of the things I noticed, man, is people struggle to feel true gratitude in their hearts for the lives that they have. A lot of people think about all the stuff they don't have. They stress over life, business, money, relationships, things outside of their control, and they fail to recognize all the good that's taking place in their life.
Speaker 1:I want to give you a piece of advice that changed my life, something that I applied when I was stuck in my jail cell, facing life in prison. Imagine right now if you're getting up in a six by eight jail cell that you never left and you were potentially going to be stuck in that cell for the rest of your life. No family, no hugs, no getting outside when you wanted to, no going to the beach, no going to the movies, you know. No more sex with your wife or your husband right, maybe fucking Bubba there, your bunkmate, but not the person you want to be intimate with right. All the things that you probably take for granted and overlook right now. Imagine if you just never had the opportunity to do this stuff ever again. Imagine. Imagine if you just never had the opportunity to do this stuff ever again. Imagine waking up in that cell each and every day. How just demoralizing that would feel, how you would just want to blow your brains out because you thought I'm never going to leave this cell my life's over. So that's the place I found myself when I was 23. And this is the shift in my mindset perspective that I want you to start applying every day that radically changed my life.
Speaker 1:You know, I was waking up in that cell every day thinking about how horrible it was, how I was never going to get out and have a family of my own, how I was never going to get to see my brother and my sister or my dad again, how I was never going to get to get out and go after my goals and dreams, how I'd wasted the first 23 years of my life and I wasn't going to get a second chance. You know, and just all the worst, most negative thoughts. I just kept dwelling on those every day, every day, every day. And being stuck in that cell was torture and I couldn't escape my thoughts. I couldn't obviously escape my confinement until one day it just dawned upon me that if I didn't get control of my own self-talk and change the narrative in here, I was never gonna have a chance at survival, let alone to live a decent life. And at that time I didn't know how much time I was gonna do in prison or what the future held in store for me. I just knew that moment to moment I didn't wanna be in pain anymore. I didn't wanna be making my situation worse. I wanted to find some solace, some inner peace that would just allow me to get through the day, man. That inner peace that would just allow me to get through the day, man, that's all I was looking for, and so I started changing my self-talk. That was the first thing I had to do when I woke up in the morning.
Speaker 1:As hard as it was to be positive or optimistic, I started centering my thoughts around things that I was truly grateful for. I would sit on my rack and before I did anything, I'd close my eyes and I'd just pray and thank God for another day where I had air in my lungs and I had breath. I had life for a reason. Obviously, I was there for a reason. I started believing that that the fact that I woke up today there must be some purpose or reason that I'm alive today. I could have died in my sleep, like a lot of people you know, I could have not woken up that morning. So that was the first thought. The second thought was I have eyes where I could see colors like these beautiful colors I can see with my eyes, or I can hear. You know, maybe every once in a while I'd get you know the sound of birds chirping outside my cell window. Whatever it was, I could hear, I could see. I was blessed.
Speaker 1:You know, I started thinking about how other people there was, people in the world that couldn't even see, like I wouldn't trade places with them even though I was sitting in that cell Like these were things that I was truly grateful for. Or the next thought I would have was that I had legs. I could use my legs, I could pace around myself, I could do burpees, I had an able body, I was healthy, I was fit. Like imagine waking up and being paraplegic, being paralyzed, being somebody with some, you know, really immense, you know a really devastating autoimmune disorder. Or, you know, their health was just really jeopardized to the point where they were always in pain. We know people like this. You wouldn't trade places with that person right now, neither would I have even in that cell, even facing life in prison. So I started doing this every morning.
Speaker 1:I started thinking about all the good in my life, and then I think about all my family members, my brother, my sister, my aunts and my uncles, my cousins, all the beautiful, amazing people in my life that had helped me, that had been there for me, the people that I grew up with, the memories that I made. I would think of those memories. I would remember specific times where there was joy in my life being at the beach, playing baseball, surfing and I would create this gratitude perspective that really helped me to see the good in my life, even in a very, very difficult time. And I've used that perspective ever since. Man, no matter what I'm going through, I can always recognize the good in my life and I always center my energy around the good. And I do this every day when I wake up. And it doesn't mean that I'm naive to life circumstances or challenges or things that I need to focus on. It doesn't mean that I'm delusional. It means that I pick and choose where my energy goes and what gets my attention. If there's a problem, I'm gonna fix it, but do you think the guy who's optimistic and positive and grateful is better suited to fix a problem or a guy who's negative and pessimistic and exacerbating those circumstances because he's dwelling on them? Right? This has helped me in business. This has helped me in parenting. This has helped me with my relationship with my wife. I do this every single day and with my relationship with my wife I do this every single day.
Speaker 1:And here's what got my attention today is my children woke up and it's Monday and guess what? They didn't wanna do. They didn't wanna go to school and they started just bitching and complaining oh, I don't wanna go to school. My daughter started crying, my son, preston, was fussing and I just started looking out the window and I see the sun coming up. You know I already got the snacks ready, ate breakfast, getting them dressed. You know my wife's obviously nursing Bella in the other room and I'm helping out in the mornings. And I just started saying this out loud. I started saying thank you God for another day where I could walk around in these legs. This is amazing. I could run, I could jump, I could go play, because my body feels good. Thank you God for giving me these eyes. Look at the sun's coming up outside. I can see these colors, these trees. This is beautiful.
Speaker 1:And I started going into that same self-talk that I would go and do in my prison cell, but out loud for them to hear. And I just told them you guys, imagine if we weren't healthy right now and we were sick. Imagine if your leg got hurt yesterday at the park and you couldn't walk. Imagine if you were blind and you couldn't even see these colors. And I started sharing with them this internal dialogue, this core belief that I possess, this perspective, this self-talk that helped me to change my life in the most difficult time of my life. And see you guys. Being a parent for me is the greatest gift, because I get to share with my kids all the things that I wish I was taught when I was younger. But even beyond that, this is a message for you. This is something you can share with your family, your coworkers, your employees, and something that I want you to practice each and every day.
Speaker 1:If you're somebody that's always thinking about the negative and dwelling on those circumstances, you're never going to truly feel fulfilled and happy in your life. It's going to be something that is fleeting. You're going to get excited when you hit a big job and you get that paycheck, or when it's summertime and the weather's nice and when you get to go on vacation, or your happiness and fulfillment is conditional, meaning you need external circumstances or these positive things in your life to recognize the good in your life versus being able to be grateful just because you're fucking alive and you have eyes and you can walk and you live in America and you live in the most opportunistic time in the history of this planet of humanity that we know about. Right, and you guys, people in other countries would laugh at you. You know, I talked to a guy the other day that went to Tijuana, mexico, to build homes and he said the woman they build a home for was sleeping under trash with her 18 year old autistic son. She was getting up and going to work every day and he's like man. They're burning their trash over there just to cook their dinner. Sean, they're sleeping under their trash because they don't have anywhere to live. They're in the dirt Four hours south of me in another country and a lot of countries. The people in those countries live that way.
Speaker 1:And you're in America and you have so much to be grateful for. You probably throw away your leftover food. You'll eat it after a day. Those people would be begging you for your leftovers. You know, the other day my wife threw away these cherry tomatoes. My daughter likes and go. Why'd you throw those away? And she said, oh, they were getting soft and they were kind of like you know nasty and I get it. My daughter didn't want to eat them, but I just thought to myself that woman in mexico would have ate them and she would have been grateful as fuck. She would have been so grateful.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing. You guys aren't grateful for shit. I see it all the time and it pisses me off because that's why you're not happy, that's why you're not successful, that's not why you don't feel the way you want to feel in your life. It's not anything else, it's you and the way you think and the fact that those cherry tomatoes aren't good enough for you. Guess what, dude?
Speaker 1:When I was eating slop in prison, I was so grateful just to have food in my belly. You don't know what it's like to be hungry. I drink water in my cell all day long just to forget about being hungry. You know not seeing my dad for five and a half years, not getting to hug a woman you love for five and a half years and I know guys that did more time than that. But what it taught me was so much about life, man. It taught me to appreciate what I have Every meal, every hug, every, every day. I wake up and my eyes are open and I'm alive and I got legs that I can use. I got breath in my lungs. I got another chance to show people what I'm made of and my values and demonstrate them through my behavior.
Speaker 1:I'm so grateful for this life to the point where I don't think about work. I get to do what I do. I don't think about being tired. I get to wake up and live another day. I don't care about how many poopy build my business, how much adversity God puts in my path. I'm grateful for it every step of the way, because the alternative is what? Not being alive? Some easy fucking life that you don't appreciate because you didn't earn nothing? Right? What is the alternative for you? You got to ask yourself that, waking up one day and not being able to have legs would you rather run those miles to lose your fat on your body or not have legs and never have an opportunity ever again?
Speaker 1:Oh, that business that you complain about. Yeah, it's stressful, yeah, there's pressure, but you get to build an empire. You get to tell that story one day. You get to impart that value and wisdom upon others, right? Oh, not to have children, because they stress you out and life's hard Dude. You guys, you're missing the point. The point is that right now you can change your perspective and everything that ails you, everything that frustrates you, everything that you talk negatively about, even sitting in traffic, even jerks that you come into contact with at work or at your kid's school, or even in your own family. You can shift your perspective and find the gratitude.
Speaker 1:And I'm not saying be a yes man, I'm not saying be a pushover, I'm not saying be delusional or be naive, but pick and choose what gets your focus and what gets your energy, because nobody or nothing should be able to steal your joy. And I see too many of you giving away your joy every day to things that are outside of your control, because you're misplacing your energy and you don't have the right self-talk or perspective. I want the best for you guys. I want you to feel that in your heart. I want you to live the ultimate life. If you could change your self-talk and change your perspective, you'll become the happiest person you've ever been. And guess what? You don't need more money, you don't need a bigger house, you don't need a new car, you don't need anything external. It's a shift here and here. Once you get control of your self-talk and your internal dialogue, your whole world will change.
