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The Anchor Principle: Creating Stability, Security, and Connection in the World
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About the book
The Anchor Principle
Bestselling author and motivational speaker Steve Pemberton inspires you to be the anchor the world needs and shows how to live with integrity, resilience, and authenticity.
We aren’t losing our way—we’re losing what holds us steady. Steve Pemberton, bestselling author of A Chance in the World and The Lighthouse Effect, names this moment The Drift: a quiet but consequential movement away from the institutions, relationships, and shared assumptions that once anchored us. As those anchors loosen, work grows more transactional, communities become more fragile, and our personal lives strain under the weight of holding everything together. Into the gap comes counterfeit connection: the appearance of belonging without its substance.
Yet that is not the whole story. Grounded in original research on what actually steadies people today, The Anchor Principlereveals what the dominant narrative misses: as traditional anchors weaken, people are already stepping in, quietly taking responsibility for stability, meaning, and connection. From a Boys & Girls Club director in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to school volunteers in Fort Myers, Florida, they see their lives as opportunities to lift others up.
At the heart of the book is anchor duality: setting your own anchor and becoming one for others are the same act, seen from two directions. Drawing on his own journey, from a childhood in foster care to the C-suite, Pemberton traces the anchors that held him and shows you how to choose where and how to hold fast.
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Details
- Publisher
- Church Publishing Incorporated
- Author
- Steve Pemberton
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release date
- Feb 2, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781640659896
- ISBN-10
- 1640659897
- Pages
- 256
- Carton quantity
- 28 copies
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The Anchor Principle for groups: pricing
Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $23.66 | 21% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $22.76 | 24% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $22.46 | 25% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $21.56 | 28% off list |
| 1,000+ | $20.97 | 30% off list |
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