Michael Santos Mindset
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShare strategies and tactics to overcome struggle and prepare for success. I served 26 years in prison. Lessons I learned changed the way I think and helped me develop a stronger mindset. Those mindset strategies and tactics prepared me for success. Each day I share those strategies and tactics to teach and inspire others. Click here to learn more about my story: https://michaelsantos.com/ Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-santos/support
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018: Building Authenticity to Show a Success Mindset
October 02, 2018 11:00 - 14 minutes - 19.9 MBTo build more success in your career, in your business, in your life, live authentically. That's a lesson I learned from leaders who held a success mindset. It worked for leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Steve Jobs. It also worked for me and it can work for you. If you want to learn more about the many lessons that powered me through 26 years in prison and allowed me to prepare for prosperity, please visit https://michaelsantos.com. You can download a free book that will show you...
017: Showing Appreciation to Build a Success Mindset
October 01, 2018 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBWhen we live in a state of gratitude, more blessings open up for us. I learned that lesson while climbing through 9,500 days in prison. During those 26 years, I maintained a high level of energy and discipline, largely because I appreciated the many blessings that had come my way. Prior to learning about this concept of gratitude, a series of bad decisions drove my life. For that reason, I allowed others to influence me. Although I was a teenager when I began breaking the law, the bad decisi...
016: Celebrating Achievements to Build Your Success Mindset
September 30, 2018 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBSuccess doesn't happen by accident and it rarely comes overnight. We're far more likely to succeed if we engineer the course of action. Take small, incremental action steps that can bring the outcome we want. In today's Michael Santos Mindset podcast, I talk about celebrating achievements. I used this strategy to stay motivated. That motivation allowed me to climb through 9,500 days in prison with a high level of energy and discipline. The prison system and authority figures controlled many...
015: Build Awareness and Grow Your Success Mindset
September 29, 2018 14:00 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBDo you really know what it means to be deliberate? In what ways are you sowing seeds today for the success you're determined to become tomorrow? This tactic of being aware is an essential component of the success mindset. I learned the importance of being aware, or keeping my head in the game, as I climbed through 9,500 days in prison. I knew that if I did not reach beyond the prison walls, the circumstances of my life would define my future. But I didn't want the prison to define me. I need...
014: Create Accountability Logs to Build a Success Mindset
September 28, 2018 11:00 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MBIf you're after a success mindset, use accountability metrics to take you to the next level and the next level after that. With a success mindset, we look to where we want to be in the years and decades ahead. Without this tool, those visions seem distant. They're too far into the future. We can lose our way, much as we would lose our way if we were in the middle of the ocean and trying to make it to shore. One day we'd go in one direction, only to find that we're going in a different direct...
013: Take Deliberate Action Steps to Build a Success Mindset
September 27, 2018 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MBWhat action steps have you taken today to show your commitment to the success you want to build in the months and years ahead? I'm Michael Santos and I'm absolutely certain that if you follow the strategies and tactics that powered me through 9,500 days in prison, you will achieve higher levels of success. Strategies and tactics lead to a positive mindset. Taking action is an essential tactic. In today's podcast, I talk about the different tactics I used to build energy and focus. I woke ear...
012: Aspirations will fuel and power a Success Mindset
September 26, 2018 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBDo you know the secret to maintaining a high level of energy and discipline? Let me tell you the solution that worked for me. I powered through 26 years as a prisoner with a success mindset. I didn't go into prison with a success mindset. Rather, I cultivated that success mindset through books I read. Those books taught me how to think about what I could do with resources around me. How could I use every day to maximize prospects for success-as I defined success. And I defined success as be...
011: The Right Attitude Leads to a Success Mindset
September 25, 2018 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBDo you have the right attitude? How would you know? I'm Michael Santos and I can tell you how having the right attitude made all of the difference in my life. The right attitude powered me through 26 years in prison, and having the right attitude led to my first million dollars after I returned to society. We get the right attitude when we make a 100% commitment to success. And we all define success differently. That's the reason I strongly encourage you to define success in your life. What...
010: Setting Clear Goals to Develop a Success Mindset
September 24, 2018 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MBWhat are you doing today to put yourself on a pathway to success? Setting clear goals is an essential tactic that will lead you into a better place, regardless of what external circumstances are governing your life today. I learned the importance of goals at the same time that I was learning the importance of mindset and making values-based decisions. Those success mindset tactics powered me through struggle and put me on the pathway to prosperity. Living in accordance with strategies and t...
009: Defining Success With Values on Mindset Podcast with Michael Santos
September 23, 2018 20:00 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBWelcome to the Michael Santos Mindset podcast. Really want to share the strategies that powered me through 26 years in prison. Strategies and tactics helped me to develop a mindset of success. I'm confident a success mindset can lead you to prosperity, too. In what ways are you defining success? In what ways does your definition of success define your mindset? Regardless of what challenges you're facing, or what external circumstances complicate your life, you can begin sowing seeds today...
008: Opening Small Business or Investing in Real Estate
September 13, 2018 16:40 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBIn what ways are you striving to build a million dollars in equity? What options exist? In what ways do you invest time, energy, and resources to pursue the best option. Today's podcast offers strategies to guide your thoughts. When authorities released me from 26 years in prison, I wanted to build $1 million in assets and I had to consider options. I considered starting a business, the stock market, and real estate. To make a good decision, I considered strengths and weaknesses. Like eve...
007: Everything You Think, Say, and Do in Harmony
September 12, 2018 13:26 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBDo you know what happens when you keep everything you say, everything you think, and everything you do in harmony? When we keep everything we think, say, and do in harmony, we develop a success mindset. Use this strategy to grow and become more successful. It will help you build a pathway from where you are to where you want to go. I kept everything I said, thought, and did in harmony while I climbed through 9,500 days in prison. The strategy influenced the books I read, the people with whom ...
006: Use a Success Mindset To Prepare for War in Times of Peace
September 11, 2018 22:24 - 14 minutes - 19.3 MBIn 2008, the venerable Wall Street firm, Lehman Brothers collapsed, wiping out assets worth trillions of dollars. That collapse led to the greatest recession of our lifetime. The stock market collapsed. The real estate market collapsed. Credit dried up. It was a tough time for many families. Since then, markets recovered and even soared to new highs. In the event of another correction, will you be prepared? A success mindset will help. In this episode, I talk about strategies to prepare for w...
005: How Success Mindset is Like Connecting Dots
September 10, 2018 14:13 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBAre you ready to start building more success in your life? Then change the way you think! In today’s Michael Santos Mindset episode I reveal how a success mindset it like connecting dots. I had to start connecting dots at the start of a journey that would carry me through 26 years in federal prison. I’m revealing those dots on the My Story section of https://michaelsantos.com in an accordion fashion. The story is long, so I model the message after what I learned from #GaryVaynerchuk; if you h...
004 How a Success Mindset Led to $5 Million in Assets
September 09, 2018 15:25 - 14 minutes - 19.3 MBI’m 54 years old as I record this podcast, on September 9, 2018. The Michael Santos Mindset podcast teaches others how to reach a higher potential, to break free from struggle, to build more success by changing the way we think. In episode three that I published yesterday, I revealed those ten-steps to a success mindset. In today’s episode I reveal how a success mindset led to my building $5 million in assets during my first five years of liberty. Anyone who applies these strategies and tacti...
003: What is the Success Mindset?
September 08, 2018 14:25 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBWhat is the Success Mindset? In this episode, I reveal more about the curriculum I’m creating at https://michaelsantos.com to the very clear pathway that will lead to a success mindset. I learned these techniques while I was locked inside of a jail cell as I was starting a sentence that would keep me in prison for multiple decades. By changing the way I think—developing a success mindset—I created opportunities that allowed me to grow. That success mindset led to new opportunities for buildi...
002 How to Create Prosperity With Appreciating Assets
September 07, 2018 14:14 - 14 minutes - 19.9 MBCreating success after struggle requires incremental action steps. After 26 years in prison, I knew that I had to take specific action steps to build stability for my wife and me. What strategies are you using to build prosperity? To get to the next level, my wife used the same type of mindset strategies that motivated me through prison. We thought about ways that we could raise capital to acquire real estate. Since traditional financing like mortgages and bank loans were not available to me ...
001 Introduction to Michael Santos Mindset
September 06, 2018 13:16 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MBRevealing background on how Socrates inspired me to change the way that I think. I was locked inside of a federal prison, facing a life sentence. Rather than dwelling on the struggle, I learned how to think about what I could do to make things right. By changing the way I thought, I could seize or create opportunities. Adhering to a values-based, goal-oriented strategy empowered me and brought discipline. I used that same strategy to begin building my career after 26 years in prison. By chang...