15 Lessons I Learned In Prison About Starting Over

The FBI arrested me on October 1st, 2013.

I pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and was sentenced to 2 years of federal prison.

Thus began my long and painful fall.

Each time I thought I hit bottom, the bottom would fall out.

Life was nothing but pure uncertainty, that’s not true, there was one thing I was certain of:

I was the cause of all of it.

I eventually hit rock-bottom: Planning on how I was going to kill myself.

A prison visit from my best friend turned it all around. It’s from here that I chose to step out of the burnt ashes of what was — and into what could be.

This was when I began my journey OUT of rock bottom; this is when I began my Reinvention.

I’m not listing all the lessons I’ve learned, however this is a solid start:

• Everything is temporary.
• Forgiveness is Freedom.
• Every choice has a consequence.
• Everything is a choice. And choice is freedom.
• The beginning doesn’t have to equal the ending.
• I didn’t have to burn it all to the ground to start over.