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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
Unlocking Success Lessons from My Kids
What can a six-year-old entrepreneur teach us about success? As it turns out, everything we need to know.
When my daughter collected ordinary beach rocks and declared she wanted to sell them, my adult mind immediately jumped to skepticism. But watching her paint those rocks, create heartfelt notes for customers, and persist through hours of rejection revealed the blueprint for achievement that many of us have forgotten.
Through this simple yet profound experience, I discovered three essential qualities that children naturally possess—qualities that lead directly to success when applied to adult goals. First, they maintain clear vision without self-doubt. My daughter didn't question whether people would buy rocks; she simply decided they would. Second, they demonstrate genuine willingness to pursue their goals despite potential judgment. She proudly announced "Rocks for sale!" without fear of looking foolish. Finally, they show remarkable persistence. Despite multiple rejections and moments of discouragement, she kept going until she sold every rock.
These three elements—vision, willingness, and persistence—form the foundation of achievement in any area of life. Whether you're building a business, improving relationships, pursuing fitness goals, or changing careers, success follows this same pattern. The problem isn't that we don't know how to succeed; it's that we've forgotten the determined, optimistic approach we once had as children.
Ready to reconnect with your inner child's wisdom? This episode will help you strip away the adult overthinking that blocks your progress and tap into the pure, determined energy that naturally moves you toward your goals. Subscribe now and share this message with someone who needs encouragement to pursue their dreams without fear or hesitation.
Remember what it was like to be a child with big dreams, with big aspirations, with a pure heart, with the willingness to go out and do the work. Tap into your inner child, channel that into your current goals and into your current lifestyle and watch how to start to change things for you going forward. Welcome back to another episode of the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast. I'm your host, sean Crane. Thank you, guys for tuning into the message. Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already, and share this message, this podcast, with somebody who needs to be inspired today, someone who maybe is procrastinating, someone who's stuck. I want to break down something very simple that you can all apply into your life to create more success. In fact, the reason that I got inspired to share this message today is because I observe my children often and I noticed that they have qualities that a lot of adults lose over time, qualities that would create a lot more success, gratitude, love, joy and happiness in all of our lives if we are able to implement them consistently. Now, the other day, this is really cool. I want to tell you a story before I share these qualities. The other day, I took the kids on a beach walk, my wife and I it was like Friday evening took the kids down to the beach. It was like six or seven, sun was setting, weather was beautiful and they're running up and down the beach having a blast. And right before we left they saw these rocks on the ground and Scarlett and Preston go hey, can we bring these rocks home? Like, what do you want to bring rocks home for? Like, kids are so awesome, right, and the first thing I think about as an adult and as a parent is like I don't want to carry these rocks right. And we had a bag and our bag was packed full of beach stuff. And Scarlett goes come on, dad, I want to like paint them or something. I forgot exactly what she said in that moment, but she wanted to bring these rocks home. So I said okay, and I brought the rocks home.
Speaker 1:And the next day we were hanging out around the house it was the weekend and they got this idea. They're like hey, let's, let's paint these rocks. So I set up a table for them outside and little chairs and they got their paint out and they're painting all these rocks and I thought it was cool because they're occupying themselves. My wife was like cleaning around the house. I was holding little Bella and it was just like a mellow start to the weekend, you know.
Speaker 1:And then Scarlett comes in, she goes dad, I want to sell these rocks. Like you want to sell rocks. Like who's going to buy rocks? That was my first thought. But I'm always cognizant of like never shooting my children down and and like going with that imagination of those inner desires they have, cause the worst thing you could do is create a jaded child who doesn't believe in themselves. Like you expect them to be successful in life, right, but as parents we get so caught up in our lives and we're busy and we're tired and we're stressed and blah, blah, blah. Like I almost didn't let her bring the rocks home that day. And then when she wanted to sell them, my first thought was like you want to sell rocks, but be an entrepreneur and understand what it takes to be successful in life. I always want to support my children, to try everything and to keep an open mind and have that willingness Right.
Speaker 1:So we set up a table outside and she wrote on a piece of paper there was six rocks. She wrote $5 for all the rocks, or $1 per rock, and her and Preston were out there and Scarlett's writing these little thank you cards or these notes for people that are going to buy them. Like these really sweet things. She wrote like you are the sunshine right, like all these positive things. That alone is better than a Hallmark card. Those are priceless. And she's sitting out there and nobody's coming.
Speaker 1:And a neighbor drove by and she's like rocks for sale, rocks for sale. And then our other neighbor, who's an older gentleman. I thought for sure he'd buy one. He was in a hurry to take his son to the airport. He didn't buy one and so I went down there. I'm giving her a pep talk about being persistent and what it takes to build a business or sell stuff in life. And we're going through her little spiel, what she's going to say, how she's going to get people the rocks and see the value. Right, the value is that these are priceless. It was made by a little kid. The little messages on them are super sweet. And finally she ends up selling like three rocks in the next hour and then a couple hours later she ended up selling all of them.
Speaker 1:But there was many times where she came back up to the porch and she wanted to quit and give up and she was getting discouraged. So I'd talk her through it and she'd go back down there and, sure enough, she ended up selling all of them. And it was so cute to see that massive grin and smile on her face and her eyes lit up when she sold all of them and she was like dad see, I wanted to quit, I. And she was like dad see, I wanted to quit, I wanted to give up, but I didn't quit and give up. And look at like she's holding up these dollar bills. She's like like I got money, I got results because I didn't quit and give up.
Speaker 1:And so it got me thinking about how simple it is to create success. Whether you want to have a thriving business, you're already an entrepreneur and you want to start new products or services, or just you want to create success in your life, right, whatever that looks like for you right now, whatever you feel in your heart that you want to change, pay attention, there's three things that if you can take this from my daughter, scarlett, and apply it to your life, it's going to create more happiness, more success, more gratitude, everything that we're after. Number one is the vision, the idea, the goal. Right, that's the first thing. We have to have that initial thought or idea about what we want to change. The thing that happens, though, is people have an idea or thought about what they want to change and they immediately talk themselves out of it. They get discouraged, they get fearful, they worry about being judged, and you talk yourself out of that idea or that goal. That's what grownups do. Kids don't do that. My daughter had an idea to paint these rocks and sell them. That's what the fuck she was going to do. Right, I could have tried to convince her not to do it. I could have told her no one will buy them. She didn't care. She wanted to do it. That was her idea.
Speaker 1:You see children when they're young and they're pure like that and innocent. They haven't been subjected to this world, where things can go wrong, they can fail or people can undermine their efforts. They haven't been exposed to as much negativity. So when they're young, you got to prime their little minds and bodies and spirits to be resilient, to believe in themselves. That's when you can create somebody who can go out into the world and do anything right. But maybe you, growing up, you didn't hear those positive things from mom and dad. I never had my dad take me out to learn how to do sales or any of that stuff Like sports, is what I'm always aware of, how I'm talking to my children, what these life experiences are internalized as in their subconscious mind, right, and so the vision, the idea, the thing that you want to change, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:That's step one. Step two is the willingness to actually go after it. Most of you never make it to step two. You have tons of ideas, you have tons of goals, you have tons of things you want to change. Are you really willing to go for it? Like, and put yourself out there where you can fail, put yourself out there where people might make fun of you, put yourself out there where others are second guessing why you're doing that thing, why you're going after that goal, why you quit your job, why you're moving out of state, whatever the fuck it is Okay.
Speaker 1:So Scarlett didn't care about anything. She wanted that result. She wanted to go sell these rocks. She was willing to sit there and paint them, to go out on the street for a couple hours and yell to the neighbors rocks for sale, rocks for sale. She even came back one time. She's like dad, not enough people are coming by, I'm going to put the rocks in my backpack, I'm going to go ride around the neighborhood and sell them right Next thing you know she's going to want to go. But anyway, the third thing you need is persistence. Okay, because my daughter was out there for two hours trying to sell rocks to our neighbors, rocks that they can get for free anywhere. She heard no two or three times from the first people that passed her by, but she didn't quit and give up.
Speaker 1:And I always tell my children we never quit or give up. If you want something bad enough and you quit and give up, you're not going to get it. So we stay focused. We believe in ourselves. We never quit or give up. You need persistence to be successful in life. There will be resistance, there will be adversity. Your friends and family won't believe in you. You'll have some missteps. You'll have perceived failures. You'll feel discouraged. The economy will be down. Oh, the president, oh, we're in war. Oh, business is slow. Dude, none of that shit matters.
Speaker 1:I've been through it all. I've been through prison. I've been through the ups and downs in the economy. I've been around the naysayers, the negative people, the Debbie Downers, dude, I'm so delusional optimistic that I just believe in the outcome that I want and I will stop until it becomes reality. That's how you create success For you. You're looking for your husband. You want that better job. You want that career, you know. You want a nice girlfriend. You want to have a nice body. You want to move to a new home and have a nice piece of property, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:If you fixate on that goal and that outcome and that result, you obsess over it and your thoughts and actions right.
Speaker 1:That's the vision, that's the image, and then you have the willingness and persistence to go after it, nothing will stop you.
Speaker 1:Okay and I say this all the time, nine times out of 10, it's going to work out your favor and you're going to get what you want. The one time it doesn't work the way you want it to work out, god had a plan. God had different plans in store for you and you're going to have to pivot. You're going to have to evolve. You got the adjustments always going to work out in the end, and you're going to look back and go damn, his plan was better than my plan that time and it's all going to make sense for you. But you'll never get to that moment if you just sit around and make excuses and procrastinate and let this time pass you by. Remember what it was like to be a child with big dreams, with big aspirations, with a pure heart, with the willingness to go out and do the work. Tap into your inner child, channel that into your current goals and into your current lifestyle and watch how to start to change things for you going forward.
