Rock bottom.

For all the obvious reasons, it can suck.

It can also be fruitful for self-reflection, growth, and change.

Amazing success stories originate at rock bottom.

But…

Rock bottom is a horrible place to make big decisions.

Because when we’re there, we lack discernment.

We’re susceptible.

We’re marks.

We will believe absolutely anything anyone tells us.

We hitch our wagons to people or groups we would never otherwise affiliate with because we’re desperate.

We learn this is true because once we get some altitude, i.e., we’re not buried in problems, we realize we should have never and in the present would never affiliate, with those same people or groups.

With even just a little altitude, desperation leaves, and in its place is logical, sound, and rational thinking.

When we’re buried, we must squint hard to see anything. We’ll overlook huge flags because we don’t see them.

When we get above water, we stop squinting, we can see, and then we ask that age-old question, “What in the world was I thinking???”

Rock bottom has incredible benefits built into it. Those benefits can sting, but they can be ingredients to great success.

As tempting as it may be during the darkness, don’t grasp at potentially false lights.

The answers you seek aren’t out “there” anyway, there are inside of you and have been all along.