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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
Why Most People Never Reach Their Goals
Ever wonder what truly separates those who achieve their dreams from those who remain perpetually stuck? The answer isn't talent, resources, or luck – it's avoiding six critical mistakes that derail most people's progress toward meaningful change.
This episode reveals the fundamental roadblocks preventing you from achieving your goals and provides actionable strategies to overcome each one. I share personal insights from my own transformation journey, breaking the "Crane family curse" of addiction and creating a completely different life than the one I was destined to live. These lessons aren't theoretical – they're battle-tested through my work with thousands of coaching clients who have dramatically transformed their lives.
The first mistake is lacking clarity about what you truly want. Without a singular focus and clear vision, you'll constantly shift priorities and never build the momentum needed for significant achievement. The most successful people I know demonstrate almost tunnel-vision focus on their primary goals, allowing everything else to fall away naturally.
We also explore how negative self-talk, inconsistent habits, pleasure-seeking behaviors, fear of judgment, and comfort addiction systematically destroy your chances of success. Each of these obstacles creates a predictable pattern of self-sabotage that keeps you stuck in cycles of starting and stopping without ever reaching your destination.
What makes this episode particularly powerful is the recognition that sometimes knowing what NOT to do is more valuable than adding more tactics to your already overwhelming to-do list. By eliminating these six critical mistakes, you create space for positive change to flourish naturally.
Ready to break free from what's holding you back? Subscribe to the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast for weekly strategies to transform your mindset and create lasting change in your life. Leave a review sharing which of these six roadblocks resonated most with you – I read every single one!
When you have a singular focus on a goal or outcome that you want to achieve, you can obsess over it, and when you're obsessed you have that tunnel vision. Everything else gets cast aside. The best advice I can give to anyone is just focus on one freaking thing when it comes to business and get obsessed over it. But a person without a vision will always get lost and they will always get sidetracked. Just remember that If you don't have a focus, if you're not going to a specific point into the future and a place you want to be in life, you're never going to get there. Welcome back to another episode of the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast. I'm your host, sean Michael Crane. Today's episode. I want to share with you six reasons people don't achieve their goals in life. This is really important because I think a lot of times on social media or podcasting, you'll hear people talk about all the things you need to do to change and improve. Sometimes, when it comes to changing, it's just as easy to know what not to do as it is knowing what to do, and sometimes it's easier to like cut things out of your life than to focus on new things you have to do, and sometimes it's easier to like cut things out of your life than to focus on new things you have to do. Because anytime you open up space by eliminating people, bad habits, old ways of doing things, it opens up space for you to now integrate the right way to do things, the right people to be around, the right way to spend your time. And so it's just the way the brain works. You know, sometimes you don't believe in your goals or your future, all that stuff that you want to achieve, but you do understand what needs to happen right now in order for you to improve your life Right. But when I think about reasons why people don't change or why they don't achieve their goals, the first thing that stands out is they don't get clear on what they actually want. And you'll hear people talk about your vision or having goals, and the brain does really well when you have detail right, when you have a singular focus on a goal or outcome that you want to achieve, you can obsess over it. And when you're obsessed and you have that tunnel vision, everything else gets cast aside. It's really easy to make decisions. You're more decisive, you're more focused, you'll have more energy. It just is going to make it that much more possible for you to get to where you want to go Right. But if you don't have your goals defined or your vision clear in your mind, how the heck are you going to get there Right? And I see this happen a lot of time to people. They're really indecisive. One day they want to be a freaking astronaut, the next day they want to be an investor, then they want to be a UFC fighter, then they want to flip homes and be in real estate, and Then they want to flip homes and be in real estate, and it's just like they're all over the place. The best advice I can give to anyone is just focus on one freaking thing when it comes to business and get obsessed over it. And if you don't know what you want to do in business, just start working on yourself and get clear on who your ideal best self would be Like.
Speaker 1:Almost like you could sketch that person out. How would they dress? What would their hair be like? What would their physique be like? What? What would their hair be like? What would their physique be like? What were their mannerisms, their characteristics?
Speaker 1:Like I remember, when I started changing my life in jail, I knew that I wanted to be outgoing and charismatic. I knew that I wanted to be educated and, you know, being fit, like. I didn't think about being shredded AF, you know. I didn't think about like, oh, I want to be a bodybuilder, I just wanted to be athletic. I wanted to be physical, I wanted to use my body. I had been an athlete my whole life but then, when I was using drugs and alcohol, for 10 years, I didn't do anything physical, I wasn't pushing my body. And for me, I'm always just an athlete at heart, right? I love to run, bike, swim, lift weights, do marathons, play sports like. That's just who I am. That's a part of my core identity. So when I started changing my life, that's a part of my core identity.
Speaker 1:So when I started changing my life, the two things that really stood out were being more outgoing and charismatic. I wanted to be able to walk into a room and captivate people's attention. I wanted to be charismatic with talking to girls, females, family, friends. I just saw the guys in movies who played that role and I was drawn to that. I thought, man, that individual captures people's attention. They make these people laugh, they bring a good energy into the room. I wanted to be like that.
Speaker 1:And the second thing I thought about was being educated. Because I wasn't smart, like when I got incarcerated, I thought I was just lacking intelligence. I knew I was street smart, I was good in social settings, making friends, but I had never applied myself in school and so that was a limitation I had in my self-image. But once I started reading and writing, my mind came alive and my speed of thought, my memory, like those neurons, just started firing man, I created new programs in my brain. So in a very short period of time I believe that I was smart and I could learn and educate myself, and I was becoming more comfortable being my true self, and that led to me being more authentic and genuine and charismatic. So those were the two things I focused on the very beginning of my transformation.
Speaker 1:So my message when it comes to having a vision is like you don't need to have your whole life mapped out. The bigger vision and your calling is going to emerge over time when you start fixing what's right in front of you and focusing on the things that you want to change. Focus on one to three things at a time, don't try to just change your whole life overnight. For some of you listening? It might be you need to get in the gym and lose that weight. You know, maybe you need to read more and educate yourself. I don't know, maybe you need to get sober. Make a list. What are those two, three, four things that you need to focus on right now that you can start to change. Once you start to implement that change, I'm telling you you're going to start to think about your life and you're going to start to get more clear on your goals and your vision. But a person without a vision will always get lost and they will always get sidetracked. Just remember that If you don't have a focus, if you're not going to a specific point into the future and a place you want to be in life, you're never going to get there. If you don't have it defined, how are you going to get there? You're going to get sidetracked, you're going to make excuses and you're going to.
Speaker 1:Second reason why people don't achieve their goals is they have negative self-talk and limiting beliefs, and this kind of stems from not having clarity around who you want to be. You know, if you know that you want to be a better person, but you're drinking, or if you're not working out, you're out of shape, you're just being a jerk to people like you're going to have negative self-talk. I once heard somebody say that the negative self-talk individuals have is the most honest thing about themselves, and it's kind of true. Like when you're doing all the right stuff in your life and you're on a good path and you're improving yourself every day and you're giving your best effort, you're not likely to have as much negative self-talk. We all have inner fears. We're all going to experience doubt at some times. But when you're really going all in to be your best self and again like that vision of who you wanna be every day, you're striving to be that man, you're striving to be that woman, that negative self-talk is gonna start to dissipate.
Speaker 1:Okay, then, the further you get along on your journey of taking action and proving yourself those perceived limitations in your life, you're gonna realize that they're just figments of your imagination and you're placing these limitations on yourself and in fact, you can break through them at any time and prove them false. Right, and that's a big aspect of transformation and living an amazing life is facing your fears and proving them false through positive action. We all have fears. We all have these perceived limitations, whether it's around the amount of money you can make, the type of house you can live in, the family that you can have, the car that you could drive, the career that you, if you give them credence right, through non-action or by default because you don't go after bigger goals right, does that make sense? So your limitations only become real when you let them define how you live your life.
Speaker 1:But if you're willing to face those fears and prove those things false and break through those limitations, right, maybe you become the first millionaire in your family. Maybe you become the first college-educated member of your family, first millionaire in your family. Maybe you become the first college educated member of your family. Maybe, like me, you break the family curse that we had, the crane curse, and you get sober and stay sober. And now my kids grow up in a household where there's no alcohol, no drugs. They don't even know what it is Like. I broke through those limitations. My dad couldn't do it, my uncles couldn't do it, my cousins couldn't do it. Like, they let those limitations define who they became and they lived in that world of limitations where, oh, we're just drunks, oh, we're just addicts, oh, this is just what we do. No screw that you could redefine who you are and what you do at any time. Okay, now the third thing that people struggle with and that's just why they don't achieve their goals is they're inconsistent in the success focused habits.
Speaker 1:So for me, I've been getting up early for the last 13 years, got up at 4 am today, did what I've done for the last decade plus have an hour of self-reflection I pray, I meditate, I journal, I read, and then I go to the gym and work out. That's my morning routine. That sets the tone for my entire day. That gets my mind right. That gets my energy right. That that gets my mind right. That gets my energy right. That helps me to feel in a better mood. I'm more elevated. So I bring that energy into the world and that's a real big reason why I've been able to create success. Whether it's online coaching with my wife as a father, it's because the energy I'm bringing into my interactions. I'm bringing high-level energy. I'm bringing love and gratitude for the way that I'm living and the things I'm doing into my relationships and people feel that and with business like business, especially entrepreneurship, and if you're a business owner, it's just a transfer of energy and it's all about building relationships with the right people and creating win-win scenarios.
Speaker 1:So for me, like I'm sober, I'm fit, I'm happy, I'm taking care of myself, of course I'm going to bring a good energy into the rooms I enter, right, and I learned a long time ago that that's the catalyst for success, whether it's money or opportunity or whatever it is that you want just more fulfilling relationships, better experiences in life. So if you're not consistent in your daily habits and routines, you're going to create more doubt. There's going to be that negative internal dialogue because you're not doing the things you know you should do. That is going to have the opposite effect in your world that I'm having, right. So, like it's going to affect relationships, it's going to affect your opportunities. You're going to bring in that, that self conscious energy, through your body language when you enter into rooms. You can't fake it, right. So you have to recognize your habits over time are going to either make or break you.
Speaker 1:Number four this is a big one for a lot of people vices and pleasure-seeking behavior. So drinking, using drugs, even like abusing food, or a lot of guys are addicted to porn pleasure-seeking behavior, right. So those things are going to sabotage you over time. I don't care if you're a business owner and you're stressed out and you need a drink or you're just somebody who's partying a lot. Whatever it is. When you're doing things that go against your best self and who you want to be, it's going to slow you down. Eventually it's going to derail you. But like the person, like I said earlier, who has singular focus on a goal and they're obsessed, none of that stuff fits into the equation. That person gets ahead so fast. That person has obsession over their goals. So now they're relentless in the daily habits and actions that are going to get them there. Their self-talk is going to be more positive and optimistic because they're doing the work every day and they're moving towards their goals. Why would they stop now? Why would they sabotage themselves by going out and getting hammered or using drugs or starting to develop these, these like pleasure seeking behaviors?
Speaker 1:What I've learned is that when you're obsessed with a vision and your goal focused and oriented, and all your habits are building you up every day, you do not crave drugs and alcohol. You don't want to just be sitting on your phone scrolling all day. You don't crave that sugary, crappy food that everyone's addicted to, like the vices and the things that come up as desires and the strong urges in people that pull them off track. That's a byproduct of you not having alignment, through your goals, to your goals with your actions and self talk. It happens. It literally swells up from within you and all of a sudden, if you could trace it back, like, oh, what happened that day or that week that led me to wanting to go out and get drunk or to go binge eat or just to go sit around all day and watch TV or like to do something that you're going to regret, typically it was you getting out of alignment towards your goals and like you skip the jam or you know you were just making bad decisions and all of a sudden, now you're craving something. It happens all the time. So if you want to be somebody that is not a slave to your cravings, you don't sabotage yourself. It's literally about getting crystal clear on where you want to go and aligning your daily actions and thoughts to that outcome.
Speaker 1:Now, the fifth thing I want to point out that really really hampers people in their journey to becoming their best selves and living the ultimate life. Like this is something that I think most people can relate to it's. You're scared of being judged by other people and you're worried about their opinions, and that's why you don't achieve what you want in life. You don't quit the job you hate, you don't make the radical change you need to make, like you don't actually transform yourself because all the people that know you know you as a certain version of yourself and once you start changing, they make comments, maybe even they ridicule you. It's really insane how this happens.
Speaker 1:But if you have a family and everyone drinks and smokes right, like that's how I grew up Uncles, cousins, parents and you start getting sober, at first they might be like, oh, good job, you know. But then a couple weeks go by or a couple months go by and they invite you out to the bar. It's a Saturday night and everyone's drinking and you don't want to partake. Now they're going to start to make comments to you oh what? Oh, there's like Johnny, he's too good to drink with us. Like they start saying these undermined, underhanded comments that undermine you and what you want to change. And this goes for you know money to or work like you. You want to stop working that nine to five you hate and your whole family or all your friends work the nine to fives and you want to become a business owner or an entrepreneur, they're going to start to clown you, right? Oh, you can't do it. Oh, man, that market saturated. Oh, you can't do it. Oh man, that market's saturated. Oh, like what?
Speaker 1:If you fail, people are going to judge you, no matter what. The harshest judgments typically come from the people who are closest to you, and what I'll tell you is this People are going to judge you no matter what. They're going to judge you if you get sober or if you stay drunk. They're going to judge you. If you're fat and out of shape or you go to the gym every day, they're going to judge you if you eat a bunch of bad food or if you eat nothing but clean food. No matter what you do, people will judge you, no matter what. So make sure that you're making the change in your life that's meaningful to you, right? So when people judge you, it's because you're doing the stuff that's going to fulfill you and lead you to a better, more productive life.
Speaker 1:Down the road, you don't want to get to the end of your life and look back and go oh man, you know, I'm glad that I didn't like change because I didn't want to make those people not like me. But I didn't live the life I wanted and I wish I had a second chance. Like that'll just wreck you and ruin you. Make sure, when you get to the end of your life, you're like hell. Yeah, I did everything I wanted to do. I faced my fears. You know, I think about me and guess what? I always say this, but the people that truly care about you, they're gonna be there by your side and they're gonna support you. But at the end of the day, you gotta do what's right for you, man, because you get to live this life once Now.
Speaker 1:Last thing I wanna share when it comes to six reasons why people don't achieve their goals is because they're scared to uncomfortable. You're letting your fear define you and how you live your life. You're making decisions based on fear and doubt, and when you make decisions based on fear and doubt, you'll never get what you want. When it comes to really changing your life and creating a life by design and getting exactly what you want, you got to get out into that unknown, that's unpredictable, that's unfamiliar to you, and you got to go create that life Now. For humans we do not like to get uncomfortable. We would rather stay stuck in the comfort zone of our lives, where things aren't the way we want them to be, where we have a bunch of issues with our lives, versus getting out of that unknown, where we can create something better, because it's so uncomfortable for us. How crazy is that? So what I'll tell you is that your fear is not real unless you allow it to define the way you live. Then it becomes real. Then it's going to hinder and hamper your life At any moment.
Speaker 1:You could choose to face your fear, to get uncomfortable and to go after the goals and the changes that you want to make, but it's going to cost you your comfort. You're not going to feel pleasant or always elated in that process. You're going to be a little scared, you're going to be put under pressure, but that pressure is what's going to force you to grow and change. And I would just tell you to lean into that feeling. And the worst thing that could ever happen, right? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:You go out after your goals and dreams and it doesn't work out. Well, at least you went after it, right? Imagine being the person that never knows, because you never tried. For the people that do get out of the unknown and go after their goals and dreams. It always works out for you. The one time it doesn't go your way, you find a way to make it even better than you intended. It always works out for the people that are willing to keep moving forward, keep learning and keep growing. It never works out for the people that stay stuck because they're too scared to get out of that comfort zone.
Speaker 1:And so those six things that I just share with you guys, if you could start to correct a couple of them in your life right now, get clarity on who you want to be. Get clear on that vision and that goal. Cut out the negative self-talk each and every day and recognize that that negative dialogue is not real. It's not true. You can face it any day and prove it falls through positive action by creating the right habits each and every day that align to your vision and your goals. Cut out the pleasure seeking behavior, the toxic people. Don't worry about being judged, because no matter what you do, you're going to be judged. So just ignore those individuals and then let the fear go and be willing to get out of your comfort zone and go chase your dreams. If you could focus on those things, I promise you, in five years from now, you can have a completely different life, one that you truly love, not one that you're sick and tired of living.
