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Break Free from Golden Handcuffs: Your Career May Be Trapping You

Craig Stanland
2 min readFeb 12, 2024

Food for thought:

If you feel trapped in your career to maintain a lifestyle that’s merely an attempt to make up for the fact that your life has no mission, meaning, or fulfillment:

1. You’re throwing sand in a sieve and expecting to build a sand castle.

2. Your lifestyle is a giant pair of handcuffs to the very thing that makes you feel trapped and that you don’t like.

3. Whatever inner wound you’re trying to heal with your lifestyle is only growing larger the more you try to fix it with a lifestyle.

The sooner you understand these things, the sooner you can create the life you actually want to live.

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My memoir, “Blank Canvas, How I Reinvented My Life After Prison” is available on Amazon.

“Blank Canvas” is for anyone trapped in prison cells of unworthiness, inadequacy, shame, regret, and fear who want to free themselves so they can reinvent their lives with courage, purpose, meaning, freedom, and peace.

James Altucher, best-selling author of Skip the Line, Choose Yourself and Reinvent Yourself had this to say about “Blank Canvas.”

“Craig has lived a story NOBODY would ever want to live. I was riveted to each page because I kept asking myself, “How would I handle this?” and I didn’t know the answers. Craig takes us into hell, and then we ride with him on the journey back. Great story, great writing, great human being.”

I’m a Reinvention Architect & Mindset Coach. I work 1:1 with my clients to unleash their full potential and connect with their life’s calling so they can live the lives they’ve always imagined.

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Craig Stanland
Craig Stanland

Written by Craig Stanland

From corporate success to federal prison, I share my journey to rediscover joy, meaning, and purpose. Join me in reinventing your extraordinary second act!

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