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Finding Fulfillment: Unleashing Your Inner Creator for a Meaningful Life

Craig Stanland
3 min readJul 25, 2023

Are you seeking a sense of purpose and meaning?

The answers you seek may be hiding in plain sight.

Where do you find yourself saying,

“I wish someone would make…”

“I don’t like how this functions; what if it…”

“My life would be easier if there was a thing that…”

Scratch your own itch.

I love being by the water.

I love hitting the double-ended boxing bag.

A quick google search yielded no results that would allow me to combine the two.

So I built my own.

When the gratitude journal I was using became too repetitive and lost its luster:

I wrote my own.

When I couldn’t find any t-shirts I liked with the phrases “Memento Mori” and “Amor Fati” on them:

I designed my own.

When I couldn’t find an app centered on the phrase “Memento Mori” that would deliver daily reminders of my mortality:

I designed (with help) my own.

When all the self-help books I was consuming didn’t deliver what I was seeking:

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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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