Lack of Anchor? (BeFirst Course 135)

I'm Dr. David King, husband, flower. As we're moving forward, you know, we talked about kites. We talked about how all of those things that have a foundation lead us to establish and develop a better version of ourself as we use the foundation, not only as a foundation, but also as a sandbox, as some limitations and a reference. So the anchor is another critical, critical piece of the puzzle that I want us to use as an image. Okay? Another critical foundation tool for long-term success can be explained and discussed using the metaphor of an anchor. An anchor. We are influenced and pressured by a variety of sources. As we discussed in the introductory paragraphs and lectures, many, many sources provide inputs for us, prompts for us as we develop and establish our core values and inner directions, as we are more and more exposed to the prevailing winds of cultural norms and biases and pushed by the waves of our personal desires and wants. Having an anchor in place that holds us steady in the face of the many external forces that drive or threaten to drive us out of our place. As we go throughout this portion of our creative process, it's absolutely critical to establish anchor points in our values and beliefs. These values and beliefs must be riveted to the fabric of our souls and in strategic places. So let's talk a little bit about that. Having an anchor in place that holds us steady in the face of the external forces that drive or threaten to drive us out of place. It is so important that we have an anchor in place. And I think I left out a verb there. As we're more and more exposed, we need to more and more have an anchor. All right, that's the point I'm trying to make. We need to have an anchor in place because we have these winds and cultural norms. We'd like to think that everybody's cultural values and viewpoints are good and on the up and up and amazing. It's really critical that we understand that having an anchor that is independent of what's culturally acceptable and normal is really critical because we have these things that happen to us, whether it's society or whether it's personally or religion, for that matter, they lead to biases. We can be biased in the absence of having a solid anchor and a clear knowledge. I mean, that's a conversation in and of itself. Much like how a good pair of Levi's jeans has strategic rivets. Have you ever noticed that? Placed periodically throughout. And these strategic rivets are placed in those high stress areas, the areas that might be under the most wear and tear, the places that might have the largest potential risk to rip or the places that would wear out the fastest. Fortunately, the clothing designers opted to place a series of rivets to secure these areas of the jeans. In our lives, we must also have a series of strategic rivets placed intentionally to support and protect our seams, our deeply held identified values. So I don't know, to be honest, if our current jeans, I mean, many of the new jeans don't have rivets. Maybe our sewing materials and the fabric and the thread and stuff is strong enough that we don't need rivets now, but many of them still have rivets. And some of that may just be carry on from the standpoint of remembering the olden days, if you will. But initially it was strategic. Those were the high stress areas. The seams and rivets and anchors of life offer great protection from a gradual slide off of our center. We've got to take advantage of and place these crucial pieces in the appropriate places. In the appropriate places. If we consider how we are pushed and pulled toward changing social preferences and adjusting and swaying mores, it becomes absolutely critical to develop a firm foundation of individual personal values that are deeply rooted in solid previous historical underpinnings. Solid personal values. All right. So I, interestingly enough, I watched a short video about anchor design. Did you know that the anchors are designed for different locations and places? They're designed to do certain things, right? To hold a ship steady or to slow a ship down or to keep a ship stable in the sand versus the rocks, et cetera, et cetera. There are a bunch of different kinds of anchors. For our intents and purposes, we're going to use the idea of an anchor as something that holds you put. So if you're a ship and you come into a certain place and you want to stay there, the wind and the waves will continually move you one way with the drift of the water, right? The anchor holds us firm. We need to have a solid foundation to make sure that our anchor doesn't move and that it's established right and placed in the right places. And then as we have an anchor, we also need to have these rivets that help to secure our core values and beliefs within our belief system in strategic places. We don't want our beliefs to fall apart. And those rivets come from time-tested truth. That's another word I'll write down for another phrase. Time-tested truth. So we'll talk about more going forward. Remember to have an anchor and to use that anchor going forward. And we'll see you in the next video.