“I have anchor management issues”

by Connie Pierce

 I saw this title on FB and decided to write about what it means to me.  First of all the idea of an anchor can be good and bad.

I have always felt that God was my anchor of support and strength.  It is knowing that I have something to keep me from drifting out to sea especially when it comes to how I live.  I need the discipline of knowing that God is here to keep me on track!

Our challenges and problems can seem like an anchor that we are dragging around and make it difficult to find the joy in living.  If we feel like we are losing the ability to manage our lives perhaps we are using the wrong kind of anchor!

What to do?  First of all you need to stop and make a couple of lists.  Label one “What’s right” and the other “What Needs Improving”.  When you look at the good, be sure you aren’t under-valuing what you have listed.  It doesn’t matter how small or how large the items are.  What’s important is to acknowledge each one and love YOU for each one.

When you review the “Needs Improving” list pretend you are a third party and not personally tied to it.  If you have children, you know how important it is to separate bad behavior from them.  It is better to say that behavior isn’t acceptable than to say you are bad.  So do the same for YOU.

This is particularly true when it comes to obesity issues.  The tendency is to blame yourself for your weight and literally turn the weight into an anchor you are dragging around that has been welded to your body.  Stop it!  Yes we are responsibility for what we eat and how active we are but beating yourself up for this won’t solve the problem.  We need to start building self-esteem by listing and acknowledging everything that is right about us.  Weight doesn’t define us.

I believe that the spiritual is what defines me and that gives me the anchor of assurance that anything that isn’t right can’t be mastered.

Learn to recognize your anchors and choose accordingly.  You will discover that you have more strength than you realize and that even obesity can be conquered.