Sean Michael Crane's Unstoppable Mindset
Sean Michael Crane's Unstoppable Mindset
The Power Of Believing In Something Bigger
Have you ever found peace in the most unlikely of places? Picture this: confined within the cold, harsh walls of a prison cell, I, Shawn Michael Crane, had a transformative moment that changed my life forever. Join me on the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast as I recount my journey from despair to hope, and how faith in a higher power, whether you call it God or something else, became my cornerstone. Learn how this pivotal realization taught me to reframe my perceptions and build an unshakeable mindset, even when the world seemed to be crumbling around me.
In this heartfelt episode, we’ll explore the profound impact of guarding your thoughts and training your mind to expect positivity. I share personal anecdotes and practical tips on how to overcome feelings of hopelessness, discouragement, and resentment. Discover the importance of daily routines in maintaining inner peace and resilience, and how embracing life’s lessons—no matter how tough—can lead to a more purposeful and fulfilling existence. Tune in and empower yourself to trust in the bigger picture and recognize that everything is unfolding exactly as it should.
This is really what faith is, and this is why having a higher power whether you call it God or a different name, whatever it is is so important, because it's believing that there's a bigger picture, there's something greater going on here than you recognize in the moment.
Speaker 1:Somebody that can think like that. If you can train yourself to have this awareness and talk to yourself like this moment to moment, you don't get jaded, you don't get discouraged when things don't go your way. You don't get resentful when people act or behave a certain way. You don't take things so personal. Welcome back to another episode of the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast. I'm your host, shawn Michael Crane. We're here in beautiful Santa Barbara, california, at the Unstoppable HQ, feeling alive, man, feeling blessed, and guess what? You don't always wake up feeling positive, right, you don't always wake up with the most optimistic thoughts and feelings. A lot of times, you got to earn that stuff, and that's what I want to talk to you about on this episode today. Before I do, though, make sure that you subscribe to my channel. Please share it with anybody that needs to get motivated and inspired to live the ultimate life. That's my mission, and I can't do it alone. I need your help. So check it out, you guys. My daily routines have allowed me to live in this internal state of peace for the last 12 years. This occurred to me first when I was living in a jail cell. When I found peace in a prison cell, it changed my entire life because I realized my external circumstances had no bearing no effect, no impact on how I felt. It was my interpretation of what was happening in life that resulted in my emotional state. Think about that for a second. When's the last time you recognized that it was your own thoughts that led to your emotional state, when it didn't matter what someone said to you, it didn't matter the fact that you were late in traffic, it didn't matter that the economy was down, you had a slow month in business, it didn't matter what happened. It was your own perception that led to your emotional response. So I figured this out a long time ago survival for me. If I had just depended on my circumstances to suddenly uplift me and make me happy, I would have been waiting a long time and in fact I probably would have fallen into a depression and who knows if I would have made it out of that cell alive. So I realized I had to safeguard my thoughts and I had to train my mind to think differently. In order to feel differently, I had to train my mind to think about good in my life. I had to train my mind to expect positive to come down the road. This is really what faith is, and this is why having a higher power whether you call it God or a different name, whatever it is is so important, because it's believing that there's a bigger picture. There's something greater going on here than you recognize in the moment. Somebody that can think like that. If you can train yourself to have this awareness and talk to yourself like this moment to moment, you don't get jaded. You don't get discouraged when things don't go your way. You don't get resentful when people act or behave a certain way. You, you don't get resentful when people act or behave a certain way. You don't take things so personal. You recognize that.
Speaker 1:Maybe you needed to learn that lesson. Maybe you needed to get burned a couple of times to develop more compassion or empathy for people. Maybe you know you needed to have something go wrong, to humble your ass a little bit and just be grateful for what you have Like. Maybe there's a bigger plan here, a master plan that you can't see or understand. That's just working right now and it that's just working right now and it's working exactly the way it's supposed to.
Speaker 1:That was the paradigm shift I had in my cell that radically transformed my life, that made me feel, that helped me to go from someone feeling hopeless and broken and alone to someone who actually had a purpose, to someone who was actually cared for by God, who God was looking down on me, saving my life, saving me from an accidental overdose, saving me from those toxic relationships, saving me from a life of mediocrity, saving me from sabotaging my potential. I had an opportunity in that cell to rebuild my life. I had an opportunity in that cell to get sober. I had an opportunity in that cell to dream big and cultivate those visions over time. It was such a fucking opportunity. But imagine most people. They wouldn't think that way. They would have done the exact opposite. They would have been discouraged and sad and depressed and their negative thoughts would have just fucking wrecked them in that cell and eventually they probably would have wanted to hang themselves or find drugs to numb and check out.
Speaker 1:So you guys, in any moment, in any situation in life, I don't care if it's in a relationship with your significant other. If you're that guy sitting in traffic who's getting all pissed, I a relationship with your significant other. If you're that guy sitting in traffic who's getting all pissed, I don't care if you're in a job you hate and you want to change. I don't care if you're that fat and overweight guy who can't lose the weight. Whatever it is you're going through right now. There's two ways you can handle it. You can look at it as an opportunity to become better or you can fail to recognize that opportunity and you can make it worse by the way that you respond and react. That's what most people do. Most people respond and react in a way that makes their situations worse in life and, honestly, the way that you respond and react to situations is more impactful than what you're actually going through. Your subsequent response to any given set of circumstances is going to impact what happens.
Speaker 1:You can choose by taking a moment to pause and elevating yourself to a different vantage point, beyond your own needs, beyond your ego, beyond your emotions in the moment, and really analyze situations from a bird's eye view, like a different perspective. A lot of times, if you do that, you start to see that it's not so bad, that actually maybe something good can come out of this situation. Whether it's an argument at home with your wife, if you do this, maybe you pause and realize, dude, the stuff she's saying there's actually truth to it. I know she's a little heated right now and she's coming at me, but what she's saying I got to listen, instead of me responding with more emotion. What if I just listen and actually start doing the things that she's talking to me about?
Speaker 1:Right, in any given set of circumstances, you know something's going on in your financial situation. You're stressed out and you're seeing your bank account depleted every month and you're living paycheck to paycheck. Well, instead of sitting there and looking at your bank account and getting all anxious in the morning and then being all fucked up in the head all day long, what if you remove yourself from that emotional place and just analyze your situation and really objectively look at your budget, look at how you're spending money, look at what skills you need to develop to change your career, to get into a better career. Like to actually learn and grow and change your financial to get into a better career, like to actually learn and grow and change your financial situation over time. Like there's always a solution, there's always a recourse to any given set of problems. But if you're somebody who responds emotionally and you can't give yourself this moment to pause and reflect, you're not going to see the answers.
