Rock Bottom - make do with the basics

Yesterday we entered the Emporium of Delights, a shop if you like that can only be found at Rock Bottom. It may sound like something out of a Sponge Bob Episode but the place truly exists and can only be entered by those officially at Rock Bottom, those who really can go no lower down in life.



Rock Bottom is a terrific place to be and I will keep repeating it. Rock Bottom Rocks!



When at Rock Bottom and you are in the Emporium of Delights as mentioned yesterday it is a huge temptation to choose everything that exists. Today I will tell you about the basics, the stuff your mother always kept in the pantry to feed the family at lean times. In this case it's not the packets of pasta, long life milk and other such basics of a culinary nature but the basics of life, the string and sticky tape if you like.



The first thing you must take is the Freedom of Choice, Free Thought - the Law Of Attraction dictates that we all have this but few of us grasp it with both hands and use it to our benefit, now is you chance to do it, grab it and make it work - here is the place to find it!



The Basics



What are the basics in life. Essentially they are at the bottom of Maslows Hieracy of needs and before anything else is put in your Rock Bottom Shopping Cart you must take these. Oh yes, the cool thing about the candy shop in Rock Bottom it that everything costs nothing.



Make sure you have the basics. A roof over your head and food is the absolute basic. At Rock Bottom you cannot be fussy, accept what you can afford. In my case this has meant a move from a decent, private and cosy house to a small, basic room in someone Else's house. At Rock Bottom those who are your true friends will look up to you and will understand you have had to move down the ladder a little or even a lot.



The biggest basic you need to take is pride. Being at Rock Bottom others may see as a bad place. When down at Rock Bottom accept it and try to imagine it as a happy place. Pride will take a knock but it is only when your pride is knocked or you are kicked when you are down that you often see the true way forward. Take the package marked pride and keep looking into the empty box it comes in and see yourself head held up, shoulders back and on top of the world.



The other basic is ability. What can you do? What are you good at? Everybody is good at something. There is a man I know in the UK that was good at cleaning windows, well educated but no university degree or real chances of a high powered job. He knew he was good at cleaning and now after a long hard struggle and going to Rock Bottom owns a hugely successful cleaning business, has a wonderful wife and great kids. If you are good only at something that may seem menial start doing it to earn income, do it well and work up - there are a huge number of hugely satisfied cleaners in the world! Take ability and apply it - ask those around you "what am I good at?" and maybe expect to be hurt or even surprised.



The final basic you need is courage. Courage to face every day. Courage to do things a little different. Courage to be you. Taking a job you may not like or want to take take for whatever reason is often when is required. It sometimes goes back to pride "what will my friends say". Stop it! It's you right now and you alone not what others think or say. As long as it is positive for you then it is right for you, and it may just be a simple stepping stone to keep breathing!



Yes, all this may all sound like something out of the Wizard of Oz but the story of Dorothy trying to get home is very much the story of Rock Bottom. The parallels between Rock Bottom and Oz is actually quite real. Everybody in with Dorothy and Dorothy herself are looking for a way forward, not out of, but forward from their current position and they all are seeking one thing and it is not a thing it is a who. "Who can I ask?" is the one question at Rock Bottom so many do not ask and right now at Rock Bottom you have the luxury to ask so ask away!



You now have the basics. All of them in the mind, all of them free of charge. Now it is time to make the final step. Tomorrow I'll tell you what that is and what is so vital and unique about Rock Bottom.

Rock Bottom - The Emporium of Delights

Yesterday I mentioned that Rock Bottom was the ultimate place to be. Granted it is not the nicest place to be but it is the ultimate place to be. Even in Napoleon Hill's book "think and grow rich" it is clear that many very wealthy and hugely successful people have been at Rock Bottom or at least the very end of the road before a meteoric climb.

"Where am I right now?"

This is the first question you need to ask and answer honestly, without a 100% honest answer you cannot even begin to get out of Rock Bottom and you may even realise that upon your honest answer you are nowhere near Rock Bottom.





For me the answer has been painful, a soul searching period and one that is more frightening than any Stephen King novel. It's time when you look in the mirror and look at yourself and ask "how do others REALLY see me?". Mine hurt and my findings were not as I had thought them to be for over 35 years. I have blamed too many in the past and on the reverse used too many, the truth is me and that it what you need to find. The only place you will find it is in the solitude of Rock Bottom!

Once you know where you are and who you are only then can The Emporium of Delights begin to be opened. Like child in a candy shop the delights of Rock Bottom make ones eyes open like saucers and there is an immediate desire to grab as much as possible and stuff ones face. STOP!

I have learned the in the Rock Bottom Candy Store you need to choose what you want carefully and in moderation, remember you want to rise up and extra weight always prevents this. Like snow of the wings of a Boeing the extra weight and consequences of what is on the wings can prove fatal! At Rock Bottom you have all the time in the world for your pre-flight checks, do them, repeat them, check them and do them again.

Entering the Emporium of Delights

Now that you have done everything possible to find out and confirm that you are at Rock Bottom you may enter, you have the key now use it!

The doors of life will now open to you. Other around you may well be the ideal guide or they may well get you lost hoping to keep you down, you need to learn who to trust and learn also to trust yourself more. Having the right people giving the right advice will be the only way that can lead to the ultimate benefit of Rock Bottom that will be revealed in the next few days.

The First Gift from Rock Bottom

The Emporium of Delights offers many gifts, some to help many to hinder, but all have 2 unique traits. Each and Every one of them is a choice you make and Each and Every one of them is controlled in your mind. I am not going to go on and on about the law of attraction but with a little reading you will soon see there is quite a lot of truth in "what you think is what you get" - for a fuller understanding click here.

The first gift from Rock Bottom is Freedom of Choice. You cannot sink any further and you can now choose the direction you wish to go, there is only one real choice. You can choose what, how, where and why you want to do. You have the Freedom to choose even the most outrageous or risky options to gain momentum. Working for yourself may be the answer or you may have to work for a boss. At Rock Bottom you have the power to choose.

Remember with Freedom of Choice comes acceptance of the outcome, yes you can get knocked down but at Rock Bottom the fall may be painful like a boxer being repeatedly punched to the head, but the fall is short. However the right choice has massive consequences because mentally a small step seems a lot bigger at Rock Bottom. Remember your Pre-Flight Checks to ensure you have made the right choice!

Freedom of Choice is something we are all born with. We have complete control over our thoughts and our actions but many of us have not passed the drivers test for the use of thought and action and most of us fail to accept the consequences preferring to blame others or use others - I was in the box! I am stepping out of it now...follow me!

The first parcel you have to open in the Emporium of Delights is the small scruffy one with your name on the tag, in the very dull wrapping paper buried by all the other shining, fantastic looking parcels. All that Glisters is not Gold and at Rock Bottom nothing is more true. Open up the parcel and you will see it is something you already have but have never used...you and your thoughts! It is also a clean sheet of paper to begin a fresh, successful life!

Tomorrow...I'll start on the road out of Rock Bottom and finally to the conclusive answer that makes Rock Bottom such a great place to be!

Rock Bottom - where is it?

In the last 3 weeks I have reached rock bottom. I am happy I am down here with the rubbish of life, I have spent a few days in the flea pit from hell and have learned something, something I want to share with you...

Rock Bottom is Hard. It's not a soft, comfy pillow with silk sheets. Rock Bottom is cold, uncomfortable and has nothing soft or cosy about it.

I questioned why Rock Bottom like this and than asked how can I use it?

Many people think they have reached Rock Bottom but have come nowhere close. Rock Bottom is a place few truly know or appreciate. Many think they have reached Rock Bottom but have not, they can do a great deal more and make some significant lifestyle choices before reaching the anti-pinnacle of life. Until you reach Rock Bottom you either float downwards until all options have been tried, tested and proven or you slowly float towards the middle before gently sinking again to the same point you were before you started to float. It's common for well over 90% of those who think they have reach the lowest of the low Rock Bottom to float, almost hover, between the point of lowness to the level of not quite achieving success. Like many they never fully gain the life they need and end up in a cycle of peaks and troughs without paying much attention to the whys and the hows.

Rock Bottom is a place from Hell but it has something that no other place has. It has Rock and Bottom. It maybe hard as steel, and miserable and sin itself but Rock Bottom is the only place to be if you demand success in life and you want to break through the other Rock called a ceiling that holds so many back.

Rock Bottom is a place of resourcefulness, a place of opportunity and a place to plan. At Rock Bottom you are in the ultimate restaurant and shopping mall of dreams and ambition. A gastronomy of opportunity is to be found. But, and it is a massive BUT...you need to be at Rock Bottom to enter, find and use anything available... desperation is the key!

Rock Bottom is a life changing place, mine is changing and fast and with a little help I am finding I can do something unimaginable and seemingly impossible without what is perceived as the fuel to make it happen...tomorrow I start you on a road to recovery...a road to success...

Right now, I am almost divorced, almost homeless, certainly flat broke but I am at Rock Bottom and filling up with fuel...and happy...

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