You Gotta Believe …

It’s All About Your Anchor Points

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.”

– Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding

Shawshank Redemption

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We all spend a lot of time these days lamenting what’s wrong with the current state of affairs. Why that person’s wrong? How this is the wrong direction. It’s almost as if we’ve made a mental flip from our own sources of encouragement to all the rest that drives us crazy. I’ve been thinking about this, and the need to turn it around.

So for a change, I’m focusing on my anchor points. Those things in which I believe. It’s an ever-evolving list as time, circumstances, and a bit of wisdom change things. But if you ask me what I believe in today, here’s what I’d tell you. And I think everyone, for their own well-being, should have the ability to answer that question without much thought.

(You’ll notice there’s considerable mention of therapy here. I require much therapy.)

•Second chances, even third and fourth chances, according to circumstances

•Dirt therapy

•Wood-burning fireplace therapy

•Humility

•Alone time

•Really nice grass – thick Bermuda that’s so green, it’s almost blue

•Stories

•Supporting local artists

•Staying quiet

•Truth

•The education of travel

•Early to rise

•A good chef’s knife, a chopping block, and a go-to frying pan (kitchen therapy)

•Music in the kitchen

•A small circle of friends – the ones who would help you bury the body

•The power of failure

•Ethics

•Picking up the phone and calling a friend

•Tomatoes

•Thinking time on a road trip

•Faith and hope.

•Knowing your gift, passion, calling, and love.

I encourage you. Take a moment today and write down five things you believe in. Those are your anchor points.