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I'm going to make
every second while I'm
incarcerated the best fuckingmoments of my life.
I'm going to become the mostproductive and focused person
I've ever been.
When you have a vision or goals,don't expect other people to
really buy into them right away.
Don't expect them to fullybelieve in you, because a lot of
times they still see you likethey saw me, the guy sitting
there in prison, blues, the guyin prison, just like them.
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They see you for what you arein the moment, not for what you
could become or what you willbecome with persistent effort.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Unstoppable Mindset
Podcast.
I'm your host, sean Crane, andthank you, guys for tuning in.
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I really appreciate yoursupport.
Today I got a really importantmessage and I say that all the
time because I'm not going toshow up here and just give you a
lame fucking message.
Like, everything that I sharecomes from the heart and my life
experience, and one of thethings that I see often is
people are always worried aboutbeing judged and they don't know
how to handle ridicule orjudgment from others.
You know, they start changingtheir lives, like they want to
get fit, they start losingweight, and then their friends
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are clowning them becausethey're not drinking or eating
the snacks, you know, on theweekend, superbowl party or
whatever, or even their ownwives.
Sometimes their own wives startgoing hey, you know why are you
doing this?
Are you unhappy in the marriage?
Are you trying to getattractive for other women?
You're always going to be metwith judgment, no matter what
you do in life.
Okay, you're going to be judgedfor being the fat loser, lazy
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father on the couch.
Or you're going to be judgedfor being the dad with a six
pack Cause, oh what, you thinkyou're better than everyone?
Oh, why don't you eat Like wedo?
Oh, dude, like, oh, yeah, yougo to the gym all the time.
Like, no matter what you do,you're going to be judged.
So make sure that thosejudgments like you just have to
understand it's going to happen,no matter what you do, make
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sure you're making choices anddecisions today that serve you,
that fulfill you, that lead youto becoming a better version of
yourself.
I remember when I startedchanging my life, it was in
prison and literally I was inGroundhog Day.
I got so good with my dailyroutines.
Everything in prison was sostructured Same wake up time,
ate my meals at the same timeevery day.
Workout time was the same.
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I had the same amount of freetime where I could do whatever I
wanted each and every day.
It was like clockwork rightMonday through Friday was
exactly the same.
The weekends were a littledifferent.
And I gained the system.
Man, I used it to my advantage.
I said okay, I'm going to makeevery second while I'm
incarcerated the best fuckingmoments of my life.
I'm going to become the mostproductive and focused person
I've ever been.
I didn't have bills to worryabout, didn't have kids to raise
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, didn't have a significantother.
I had no obligations orresponsibilities.
I wasn't paying taxes.
I had nothing to do but focuson myself and I looked at it as
a huge opportunity, because itwas.
I wasn't wasting time usingdrugs, getting in the mix with
all the drama.
I wasn't fighting.
I wasn't around idiots.
I wasn't wasting time usingdrugs, getting in the mix with
all the drama.
I wasn't fighting.
I wasn't around idiots, I justhad tunnel vision.
So every day I would do thesame things I would work out, I
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would read my books, I would domy college work and I was just a
machine.
I was either reading, writing,studying or working out, every
single day, over and over andover.
And that was my first threeyears of incarceration.
I didn't interact with barelyanybody else.
I had a couple guys I wouldtalk to, we'd work out, I'd play
chess, and guys would alwayscome up to me, man, and they'd
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see me at a table and I hadpapers out and a book and I'm
obviously doing something, andthey'd want to come and talk to
me.
You know, as if I was justsitting there twiddling my
thumbs.
I thought that that was sofunny.
They'd want to come and have afull on conversation and but a
lot of these guys would come upand they'd question why I was
doing what I was doing.
You know they go, sean, likewhy are you so focused on
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studying.
Why are you reading so much?
Like dude?
We see you working out everyday, all day.
Just kick back, dude.
Like you got five years to go,like you have plenty of time to
work out.
That was the thing they'd tellme.
And these guys also had thisthing where they'd start working
out 90 days to getting out.
Like that's the thing in prison90 days to the pad.
Guys start working out likemachines and they want to get
out and be fit and look all good90 fucking days.
They did 10 years and they waitfor the last 90 days to
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actually become dedicated.
They don't realize that we arecreatures of habit and if you
just put in the work for 90 daysbut you had nine and a half
years of being a slob, beinglazy, using drugs, eating
spreads, just sitting aroundlike the guys in prison, do
you're not going to justsuddenly get out and have the
internal attributes needed orthe life experience, the
precedent in your mind to besuccessful, because you still
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are the person you were for thatnine years.
You're not the guy that youwere for that short period of
time.
So I knew that I was not onlygoing to build myself up each
and every day, but I knew thatthose days were going to add up
to something in time.
So when guys would come up tome and question like, why are
you doing what you're doing, man, you know you're going to get
out and just go back to your oldlifestyle like all the rest of
us, like they didn't fucking seewhat I saw.
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My vision was unique andspecial.
No one could see or feel what Ifelt.
And I want to point this outfor you too.
When you have a vision or goals, don't expect other people to
really buy into them right away.
Don't expect them to fullybelieve in you, because a lot of
times they still see you likethey saw me, the guy sitting
there in prison, blues, the guyin prison.
Just like them, they see youfor what you are in the moment,
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not for what you could become orwhat you will become with
persistent effort.
And this has happened to mesince I got out of prison too.
When I first got out, my uncleMark, who let me stay on his
property.
He's been a mentor to me.
He's been a role model, like afather figure, somebody I
respect highly and have a reallygood relationship with.
To this day I could tell thathe didn't see what I saw in
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myself.
All he saw was the guy that gotout of prison with nothing and,
as he always says, like not apot to piss, in right Meaning.
I had nothing.
I was broke, I had to provemyself and I remember after a
couple months I left theproperty that he was letting me
stay on.
I was working with him tobecome a personal trainer.
He was probably thinking in hishead this guy man, he's leaving
a fucking sure thing workingfor me and my successful company
to go be a personal trainer.
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You know, I know that there wasdoubt there, but through
persistence, through hardfucking work for the next two
years, I started building mybusiness and I remember during
COVID, you know, my onlinebusiness was taken off and by
then I had young children and Imet with them at a coffee shop
and he introduced me to somebodythat was there and he said, hey
, this is my nephew, he's a lifecoach, he's doing really good
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man, he's doing a lot of goodthings for people.
He was speaking to me with away, different tone and
acknowledgement and that was oneof the best days of my life,
honestly, because it wassymbolic of 10 years of hard
work and dedication and beingtruthful to myself, like
authentic, to who I wanted to be.
If I got out of prison and justsuccumbed to the pressure and
said, okay, I'm going to workfor my uncle Mark, that would
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have been me selling out on mypassions and my dreams.
I could have made money quickly, I had a good position,
consistent work, I could havesaved money, I could have got a
car faster all these things.
But, dude, I would have been asellout.
I would have looked back andregretted that decision for the
rest of my life because inprison, every day, I obsessed
over who I want to be.
I had these goals, I had thesevisions and when the time came,
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I didn't quit and give up or Ididn't sell out like a lot of
people do.
And so the same thing happenedduring COVID.
All my clients were lostovernight, all my revenue
overnight.
I have a family to take care of, rent, all these bills, all
these expenses.
Again, I made a decision todouble down on my dreams and go
after my passions.
Those decisions I still findjoy and reflected on those to
this day.
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But a lot of people the oppositeoccurs when the pressure's on,
when people are ridiculing you,when people are judging you,
when people are going hey, why'dyou leave your nine to five to
start this company, dude?
You're struggling, you're broke.
Why are you doing that?
Aren't you worried about yourfamily or your pension or your
retirement?
And then you go get your jobback right, that job you hate
instead of building the businessof your dreams, dude, you're
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going to regret that decisionfor the rest of your life.
Or the pressure from yourbuddies.
Right, just have a drink withus tonight, man.
Come on.
You've been sober six months,dude.
You can only have a couple.
You're not going to get allwild like you used to.
You go and have a drink withthem, dude.
You're going to regret thatdecision the rest of your life.
It's going to fucking haunt you, because when you quit and give
up on yourself and sell outbecause of pressure and judgment
, dude, you're settling in yourlife and you're going to look
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back on those things on yourdeathbed and go wait.
I gave into that pressure.
I lived my life based on howthese people wanted me to live,
versus what my heart was reallycalling me to do.
It's going to haunt you, man.
It is going to haunt you, andso I recognized this.
When I was in prison, dude, Ididn't let anybody deter me from
going after what I wanted to doin life, no matter what they
would say, no matter why peoplethought I was doing it.
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I knew where the fuck I wasgoing, just like my Uncle, mark.
I've seen this with otherpeople since I've come home
Other coaches who were furtherahead than me, other mentors,
other speakers when I wasyounger, when I was up and
coming, I could tell by the waythat they looked at me, acted
around me.
I could tell man, I'm very goodat reading people.
They didn't see what the fuck Isaw.
They didn't know what was uphere and here, right, they
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weren't acknowledging me for theperson, the future that I was
becoming.
They were seeing me for who Iwas in that moment, and that's
okay.
You know I'm going to continueto show up each and every day
and get better, everythingaround me.
You're going to see the resultscontinue to rise.
You're going to see everythingthat I do improve over time the
way I take care of my family,the life that we design and
create together, my business,how successful we become, how
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much money we make, how manylives we fucking change how.
I change the lives of my teammembers and everybody that rolls
with me on this journey.
Everything I do will continueto get better and better and
better and, over time, thepeople that once doubted me
number one I don't even hearthem.
I don't even acknowledge it,because my beliefs and my
conviction is so strong it'sjust deaf noise to me.
I'm aware of it, but it doesn'tfaze me, and this comes from
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being in prison, around a bunchof crazy motherfuckers who
doubted me and my own family whodoubted me at times.
I don't care, I love it.
I use it to drive me.
It excites me, that fires me up.
I want more doubt.
I want more people to say oh,you can't do it because I'm
going to prove them all wrong.
The way you prove them wrong isyou stay true to yourself, you
work harder, you get better andyou never fucking quit.
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And so, whether you're juststarting on day one of sobriety,
month one of losing weight,you're just starting to think
about building your own business, whatever it is, whatever the
goals that are personal to you,that's for you, the vision that
you have.
That's for you.
No one else can see it but youand no one else can bring that
vision to life.
You're the one that has to dothat.
When you do over time and youdefy the odds and you prove the
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naysayers and the doubters wrong, it's going to be one of the
best feelings in the world andall those doubters, all those
people that question you at onetime, are going to become your
supporters.
They're going to admire you forthat.
They're going to acknowledgethat there was a time that they
didn't know if you could pull itoff because they didn't see
what you saw.
And in that moment you're goingto realize damn dude, I almost
quit and gave up a long time agobecause I was worried about
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people saying shit about me, andit's going to seem ridiculous
when you're looking around atthis life that you've built for
yourself.
So this message is for anyoneout there that knows they're
made for more.
You have this feeling inside ofyou that's calling you to
become a better version ofyourself.
Dedicate your life to thatpurpose, because that is your
purpose.
And over time, a greatercalling, bigger opportunities,
new relationships and the mostbeautiful life is going to
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manifest before your eyes.