A few years ago, I was going thru my personal rock bottom moment.
It was the year of 2017 & a lot of things were falling apart before my eyes.
To kick this story off, I was getting sued for 250,000$ by some dude from England.
'Huh??'
Yep. I was doing virtual real estate (website brokerage) back then & one of my designers had used one of his pictures.
Since I was the website owner, I was the one who was going to be facing the consequences.
Next, I was ending it with a long time girlfriend where the relationship had taken its course.
It sucked, because she was great. But she had minimal ambition & was holding me back from greatness.
But wait... there's more..
One day, while I was in my car devising ways out of this suing situation & coming off a breakup, I ended up getting into a bad car accident.
My car was totaled & one of the guys I hit was thinking about pressing charges too.
After the car got totaled, it felt like the final straw in what had been a awful couple of days. This lead to my performance at work & school suffering.
It was a tough time that had me thinking if my life was going to spiral down from there on out.
25 years old at the time & thinking if this was it?
I went thru a level of depression & felt like a big loser.
Rock bottom has a way of draining your energy, making you lose your zest for life & killing your ambition along the way.
I went thru week after week feeling like all hope was lost.
Poor sleeping, loss of appetite & minimal desire to talk to other.
After a few weeks in, I realized that this feeling couldn't have gotten any worse.
The worse that could have happened, had happened.
I was in the depth of darkness & there was no one to blame but myself.
Therefore, it would be no one's duty to pull me out, but myself.
It was time to take a new journey. A journey to take care of unfinished business.
The next day I called the guy who was suing me. Not email, text.... But call.
I had felt so much pain the past few days, that I had a strange level of confidence in my voice.
A level of, the worst has happened, you don't scare me.
I told him 250k was outrageous & I was not going to be paying that much. Did some research beforehand and realized his pictures were on a RSS feed, so he was the one who lacked due diligence.
This dude was a straight up wimp. Soft voice, stuttering & mumbling.
He sounded like a tough guy on email, but he was far from it on the phone.
He ended up dropping the charges & asked me to only pay 500$ for lost money on his website.
Fine.
Next, I ended up having to wait out the aftermath of the accident. But within 2 weeks, my car was fixed & I had gotten a lot of my money reimbursed due to the insurance plan my family has.
After I had gotten my car back, it was time to play catch up at work & school. I stayed extra hours at work & busted my ass. Did extra projects, volunteered to work overtime & networked with others to get back on their good graces.
As for school, I would sacrifice my Fridays & weekends studying my ass off to finish the semester of with a bang.
Finally, I got my ass in the gym & joined a Toastmasters.
Decided I was going to chronicle my whole journey out of darkness via Twitter.
I didn't give a fuck about followers, more about sharing my message with the world.
That is how the @tonytrillions blog was born.
If you are someone going thru a tough time right now, understand it is only a fraction of your life.
It is not the final chapter, but rather chapter 1.
I thought my darkness would lead me to a spiral.
But rather it lead my to my life meaning.
You learn more about yourself in the darkness than you do when shit is going well.
You learn to endure pain, think creatively & find a greater joy for the smaller things in life.
That is how rock bottom changes you for the best.
Always hold your head up & show up.
You will be tempted to throw in the towel & grovel like a bitch.
That is normal.
Go on & be sad if you need to. You are human at the end of the day.
But it is your duty to brush yourself off & get back out there.
Go to the gym, pick up a hobby that keeps you creative & start a side hustle.
This was my formula for engineering my way out of rock bottom.
Your sole goal rock bottom is to level the fuck up. If you don't know how to do that, then follow the frameworks in my book to a tee.
Now, read this email one more time, quit feeling sorry for yourself & begin again.
We all have a second chance in this life.
It's called tomorrow.
Now start your second chance.
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