No? Welcome to the club. Hit bottom? We’ve all been there. You’re in the pit without a rope or a ladder – so now what? Where do we start? A good place would be to stop making excuses about how we fell into the pit. Blind leading the blind? Mistakes are in the past. We’ve got to get out of this pit – and that’s in the future. Also, no excuses about we don’t know how we’re going to get out or we’re not strong enough. Next, we figure out what resources we do have. We remember similar circumstances we were in another time. How can I get help – no matter how embarrassing to ask. We need new, positive thoughts, too. Get rid of negative thoughts. Challenge all ideas. Envision ourselves beyond our mess. Start with something. Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he figured out how to manufacture the light bulb!