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Your Brain Wants You to Succeed: Here’s How

Craig Stanland
2 min readFeb 8, 2021

Have you ever said this?

“I’m afraid of what might happen.”

I hear this quite a bit from my clients.

Fear keeps them from living the life they want to live.

They live in the agonizing space of desire and Fear — the limbo of being frozen by what “might” happen.

That’s what Fear does; it focuses on what might happen. The absolute worst-case scenario

Failure/Judgements/Misery/Criticisms/Losing Everything

It can often feel like death itself.

It’s better to stay stuck than to risk experiencing all of those.

But is it really? Your heart and soul want more, you can feel it. You can feel yourself light up

Fear and ego have a deceptive trick to keep themselves safe. When it comes to a goal, something vital to us, they tell us it is impossible — so why even bother?

Fear/ego focus only on the outcome, not the process, and this is where we get stuck. The outcome seems too big, too daunting — it’s too big a risk.

But — the brain has a nifty little trick that once we are aware of, we can utilize to make the “insurmountable” attainable.

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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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