On Daily Anchoring

On Anchoring:

Inner peace is the first wealth. If you can begin your day having accomplished inner peace as your 'first act of accomplishment,' all else will come with ease and enrichment. With inner peace you think better, you perform better, you prioritize better––“you” are just better.

If inner peace is not the first item on your to-do list, look for turbulence in your day all day. Each day is like building a house of cards, but if you have not secured the “foundation” of your day, what good is everything you try to build on top of it? You are the foundation.

If you continuously leave yourself shaky, cracked, frayed at the seams and un-tended to, everything you build will fall when you ultimately fall apart. Build stabilization into your day by first stabilizing you. Use meditation. Use 40 minutes of quiet reading. Use a serene practice of yoga. Find a desolate morning road and run it. Do what you have to do to anchor yourself, daily, to not be blown away in the winds of your day.

Say to yourself, “I am the first and most integral building block of my life. I will never abandon the importance of me.”

-- A