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Your Choices Create Your Reality

Craig Stanland
2 min readFeb 5, 2021

Your choices create your reality.

Your choices have the ability to create magic in your life.

There are 2 distinct types of choices in challenging situations:

Easy Choices and Hard Choices.

One builds prisons. The other knocks them down.

Easy choices are made when you purposefully avoid something out of fear. Telling a lie and not speaking your truth, going along with something even if it’s not in alignment.

When you do this, you become a slave to fear. You relinquish freedom and shrink your world.

Consistently choosing the easy path sets your life to automatic. You’re running in default mode, with no direction. You’re no longer intentional about your choices.

You fabricate prisons in your mind, with every thought of, “well, this could happen” or “what if that happens?”

Each choice made from fear adds another brick to the wall.

The easy way is a trap. That feeling of relief you feel when you avoid something, it’s fleeting; it’s temporary.

You sacrifice long term peace for short term relief.

The hard way can suck. No doubt. On top of that, whatever it is you want when you choose the hard way isn’t even…

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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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