You weren’t built to live at 100 mph forever.

You feel it every day: the slow rising of the water.

The alarm that rips you out of sleep. The endless notifications. The quiet panic that you’re somehow still behind—even after the promotion, the raise, the perfect-looking life.

You’ve tried everything: productivity systems, morning routines, meditation apps, yet the exhaustion keeps growing.

That’s because none of those things are the real problem.

The problem is that you are trying to out-swim an ocean that has no shore.

In The Best Anchor, David Orton (a former corporate director who once cried over a spilled latte in a Starbucks because it was the final drop in a decade of overwhelm) hands you the one thing our culture refuses to sell you:

Permission to stop.

This is not another book about doing more, optimizing harder, or waking up at 4: 30 a.m.

This is a quiet rebellion against the Myth of More—a practical, deeply humane guide to building an internal center of gravity so strong that the storm can no longer move you.

In this book, you will learn:

Why “More” will never be enough (and the one question that finally ends the chase)

How Silicon Valley hijacked your attention—and the embarrassingly simple ways to take it back

The Emotional Clutter most of us carry for decades (and the nightly 3-minute ritual that sets it down forever)

The Power of the Pause: how three conscious breaths can hand you back your freedom in any moment

Why your smartphone is a leash (and the three environment changes that break it without heroic willpower)

How to redefine success using the only scorecard that actually matters at the end

The exact Morning and Evening Anchor routines that protect your peace when life gets loud

Why saying No is the ultimate act of self-love (and the scripts that make it feel kind instead of rude)

How to go deep in a shallow world—and why depth is the last remaining competitive advantage