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The Key to a Meaningful Life: Looking Inward for Answers

Craig Stanland
3 min readJul 4, 2023

What lay beyond the life we’re living?

There comes a time in many of our lives when we find ourselves seeking deeper meaning and purpose in life beyond professional, financial, and material success.

We’ve climbed the ladder our culture endorses; we’ve checked the boxes we were told to check, only to find life…. unsatisfying and unfulfilling.

Where’s the purpose, meaning, and fulfillment?

It’s an inflection point in our lives, and choices during this time will inform the quality of the remainder of our lives.

If we remain in the status quo, it’s a myth that life will remain status quo.

Life will steadily become more unsatisfying and unfulfilling because our desire for meaning doesn’t fade; it increases.

So the status quo transforms into moving backward.

But the status quo, even if it’s not what we want, is comfortable and “safe.”

It’s a known entity, and we crave certainty.

Complacency within the status quo is the silent killer of a meaningful life of purpose.

So how do we break free from the status quo and into a life of meaning?

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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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