Can't Be Broken
Can't Be Broken
From Want to Need: The Mindset Shift That Fuels Greatness: C-Monsters Mindset
What if your goals stopped being optional and started feeling like oxygen? We dig into a no-fluff framework for winning that blends obsession, sharper self-talk, and vivid visualization—so your work shows when the lights go on. The theme is simple: do so much of the right work that the people who love you tell you to slow down, not speed up.
First, we unpack obsession with the process. Not the glamorous parts— the boring fundamentals, the rainy days, the heat, the sessions when no one else shows up. That obsession is the separator if you aren’t the most gifted, and it’s the accelerator if you are. Then we shift language on purpose: trade “want” for “need,” “hungry” for “starving,” and “determined” for “relentless.” The words you repeat train your subconscious, and your subconscious drives your standards under stress. If your identity says relentless, your choices follow.
Next, we dive into visualization—more than meditation, it’s mental rehearsal for the exact moments that decide outcomes. Feel the field conditions, hear the crowd, set counts in your head, and pre-decide your moves. When game time arrives, you execute what you’ve already seen. We round it out with a holistic view: recovery, rest, nutrition, and self-talk sit alongside reps and lifting. A quick story from childhood shows what daily obsession looks like without the social media spotlight—creating games, adapting indoors, and stacking reps until performance speaks.
If you’re tired of posting the grind and ready to own it, this conversation hands you a blueprint. Subscribe, share this with a teammate who needs the nudge, and leave a review telling us which mindset shift you’ll apply this week.
What up, what up, what up? Welcome to another episode and Be Broken Podcast. I'm your host, Sea Monster, and uh this Sea Monsters Mindset Edition here. So we're gonna get right into it and talk about three different topics or three different things that are super important for success. And one of them is obsession. Look, you gotta be obsessed with the process. It's super important that you want it more than your parents do. You want it more than your friends do, than your family does, then your teacher wants it, then your coach wants it. You have to hold yourself accountable and you have to want it more. You have to have that passion, that drive, that internal fortitude that gets you over the hump. Your parents can't, they can't want it more for you. They can't tell you and ask you to get more reps in, to get more swings in, to do more. You have to ask for that. You have to do more. They should be holding you back and saying, hey, take a little break. You're obsessed with it. They should be kind of telling you that. You have to be obsessed with the process, the mundane, the routine, the fundamentals, the things that suck sometimes, the consistency of it, doing it when it's raining, doing it when nobody else is doing it, doing it when it's too hot, getting the job done when nobody else is doing it, but the small percentage of people that are obsessed with it are doing it. If you want to succeed, if you want to get to the next level, and especially if you're not that talented or that good enough, you don't have the physical um attribute at a certain sport to get there. Or if you want to be a doctor or you want to be something in a career, you have to do it better, you have to do it more, you have to be obsessed with it if you want to change lives, if you want to change your life. You need to because when it gets hard, people will quit. Because if they don't need to, they'll just want to. They'll choose to skip. They'll choose to not do it anymore. They'll choose to, or they'll choose the easy way. You need to be obsessed with the process and have people to tell you to hold you back rather than telling you to do more. Never, ever, ever let a coach, a parent, or someone else tell you that you need to do more, that you need to give more. If you're not checking yourself and being honest with yourself and doing more, then you're not there yet, and you will never be there. Now, if you're talented, God, just imagine if you did more with the talent that you have already. That's called greatness. That's the Kobe, the Jordans, those people with the killer instincts. Be obsessed with the process, be obsessed with whatever you want to do. Obsession. Number two is you gotta change the way you think and talk. Too many people I hear talking about, I want to do this. Oh my god, I'm so hungry for it. I'm determined to get it done. How about we change the want to a need? I need to do this. How about the hungry to I'm starving? I'm starving for success, I'm starving for this. How about I'm determined to I'm relentless, I will not stop until I get what I want. And we say those things. Because if you want something, you gotta be starving for it. You need to get it done. You need to get it done so much as if you need to breathe. That's what it is, and you need to be relentless about it, not just determined. Certain words subconsciously hit harder. And if you continue to talk to yourself like that and out loud and say those words, soon you become it. That's how powerful words and saying them become subconsciously and into the conscious world. You need to manifest those things, speak them into existence. And the last thing is visualization. Not a lot of coaches, not a lot of people talk about visualization. They talk about meditation, but visualization is actually seeing yourself doing something at that time. I remember when I was in college, I used to visualize. It took a little longer at the beginning, but then I would do it before every game, and I'd see myself visually relaxing, breathing, and see that day occurring, feeling the warmth of the sun that day, the breeze or no breeze, the humidity or no humidity, the people we were playing, who's gonna pitch, how I'm gonna do it defensively, the routine plays, the great plays. Seeing what I'm gonna swing at 3-0, 3-1, 2-0, 2-1, 1-2-0-2, curveball, sitting back, staying balance, winning the ballgame on a home run or base hit. I'd see that. I'd visualize that. I'd see it happening before it even happened. And I know that that it helped me out tremendously. Because if you see yourself doing something, and you see yourself finishing something, or you see yourself going and overcoming something when it's hard, you'll have a plan for it. You've already seen it happen. The mind is the most powerful thing, and that's why they say baseball, softball, all these different sports that you play are 90% mental. We need to take more time to visualize, see ourselves finishing, see ourselves overcoming, see ourselves being great. Make sure that you go get a book, talk to some coaches, get books on visualization, get books on what meditation is, get books on overcoming resistance, educating the mind, because that is the most powerful thing. Start learning how to visualize, see yourself doing things, overcoming adversity, and seeing greatness happen before it actually happens. Well, I hope you enjoyed this short, to the point talk with Sea Monster Mindset. I know we're all gonna go through adversity. I know all these things are are different, sometimes hard and whatnot, and and uh, but just remember, just put them all into use. It's not just grinding out there the physical part about it. It's not just hitting the gym all the time. It's a whole thing that's encompassed in one to being a great athlete, a great person. There's rest, there's recovery, there's nutrition, there's the physical aspect of it, and then there's the mindset about it, the visualization, the way we talk and carry ourselves, the way we talk to ourselves internally, subconsciously, the way we see ourselves overcoming adversity, and then our passion and soul with our obsession to doing it anyways, at any time. I remember when I was a kid, I'll tell you a quick story before I end this was my mom would have to hold me back and go, Don't you want to do anything else? I'd have practices, games. And if there wasn't anything going on, I'd call my friends over and we'd play outside, we'd play wiffle ball, we'd practice. And if it was raining, I'd be inside playing inside, making a uh a ball out of a sock or out of tape, playing inside with my brother or my sister. And if that wasn't happening, then I was playing Nintendo back in the day, or yeah, actually Nintendo RBI baseball. Something to do with the sport, to learn, to get better, to have fun. I was obsessed with the process, obsessed with the result, obsessed that that was gonna open up doors for me, and it did. It gives back. It can give back. But too many people are caught up in posting that they're beasts. Too many people are caught up with just looking a certain way to get likes or to say that they're doing something. There was no social media back then. You just fucking did it because you did it. Nobody knew what you were doing, but the results when you played game day, they fucking showed. When you were stealing bases, when you were throwing out people, when you're hitting fucking dingers, when you're getting base hits and consistently you're batting over 300, 400 or whatever. The results showed. Your results will show if you don't do shit, if you're not obsessed with the process, if you're not putting in the work. Oh, the pitcher got me. Yeah, the fucking pitcher's gonna get you every time if you're not working at it, if you're not obsessed with the process, it's not the fucking pitcher's fault. Go get after it. Don't talk about it. Put more work in, get better. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry I went off at the end there, but uh remember, no matter what times you go through and hard times and whatnot, remember you can't be broken.
