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Reinvent Yourself: Identify Your Fears and Create The Extraordinary

Craig Stanland
2 min readAug 12, 2023

The path to an extraordinary life means walking through the forest of your fears.

Plain and simple, this is what it takes to create and live an extraordinary life.

An extraordinary life is created from some extremely simple concepts.

Simple is elegant. Simple is beautiful.

However, the execution of these simple concepts?

Not so much.

Our brains aren’t designed for an extraordinary life.

They’re not designed for our joy, meaning, and fulfillment.

They’re designed to keep up alive.

Which is diametrically opposed to the life you want to create for yourself.

Funny how that works.

When it comes to fear, what I like to do first looks pretty counterintuitive:

✅ Identify Your Fear: You can’t manage what you can’t see.

Getting crystal clear clarity on your fears allows you to manage them.

Acknowledging your fears by bringing them from the inside out is how you demystify them and begin to remove their power.

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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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