What's Your Anchor Factor?

Our lives often go from happy to sad, from calm to hectic, and sometimes from amazing to downright awful.

The one thing that is a consistent rule of life is change, life changes, we change, our environments change. Since everything is constantly changing, shifting and moving - we must pick an Anchor Factor that will help keep us grounded in the chaos.

For an athlete his Anchor Factor could be his chosen sport, no matter what happens he just focuses on practice every day and that give him the anchor to focus on when time are tough and nothing makes sense, he can always go back to it.

For other people it could be the desire for wealth. These people grind and work their asses off for financial gain and have chosen to use "financial gain" as their Anchor Factor. No matter what happens they know all their problems will be solved directly or indirectly using enough cash and credit.

My Anchor Factor is my daily list of habits. No matter what happens in my life or how I feel, I know that as-long as I follow my daily habits religiously I'll be victorious. As stressful as life could get, or sometimes downright depressing, I always have my daily set of habits as a constant factor to guide me among the chaos.

Your Anchor Factor is like a flashlight and path, your life is a messy fog. The flashlight might not show you the entire path, but it will always guide you to the next step, and then the step after it.

People who don't have an Anchor Factor get lost in life, they could face a depressive period and fall into lethargic complacency; Stressed out people on the other hand could begin reacting to the very things that cause them stress, even though that would only create more of them.

I'm extremely worried for people who don't have an Anchor Factor in their life, since I know that at one point or another they'll resort to the default behavior for that situation. Depressive period will stop them, stressful periods will confuse their efforts, successful period will create entitlement and laziness.

Yes, even success can be a danger when you don't have the Anchor Factor, since success more-often-than-not brings with it a sense of being superior and "above the process". The successful often tend to stop the very efforts that got them to where they are, only to lose it all and go back to zero.

Do you have an Anchor Factor? What's the 1 thing you could commit to doing on a daily basis regardless of what happens in your life? What would be the activity or activities that you'd be willing to do as a matter of principle for the rest of your life?

Find out your long-term major goals in all areas of life and you'll find your Anchor Factor there. It will be your battle ally that will never fail you. Those who carry an Anchor Factor will recover from any blow and every defeat and only come out stronger. They will not be tempted by success to become lazy and entitled.

Legends are born guided by the Anchor Factor.

What's yours?