What to Do When You Hit Rock Bottom
How to come back from failure and loss
- Expelled from school
- College Pregnancy
- Divorced
- Flunked graduate statistics
- Lost job
- Home foreclosure
- Accidentally killed the cat
Making a list of failures is never an easy task. I mean, who wants to look at what went wrong? Who wants to recall the low points? Who wants to revisit the times you tumbled down the cliff and landed at the bottom, broken and bleeding?
I do.
Not because I’m a psychopathic sadist, but because I want to help. Both myself and others.
I believe that those of us who have hit rock bottom provide a valuable viewpoint. I believe failure grants a vision as meaningful as success. In fact, I contend that it is failure — and how we deal with it — that best defines us.
I’ve got a lotta failure to offer. In fact, when I make a list, its length overwhelmed me. It doesn’t look pretty. (And it’s waaaaay longer than the one I merely started above.)
The problem is: I’m not just a list of failures.
I’m a messy mix of stumbles and missteps and outright explosions conjoined with smart…
