Success Is Not A Straight Line

Welcome to the Anturas newsletter, where I provide actionable ideas to help you think, learn, and grow. If you enjoy it, you can subscribe HERE and it will come directly to your inbox! Every day I go to the hospital to see my mom and I'm hoping for small improvements. They don't have to be huge steps, just small steps that get us closer to "normal." What I'm hoping for is continuous progress. Unfortunately, this isn't realistic. Whether it's health, business, or relationships, everyone wants success to be a straight line. The reality is, success is never a straight line. When's the last time you achieved something great, and didn't have a single setback? It doesn't happen. Hoping for this "straight line to success," sets us up for failure because we will never hit this ideal. And even worse, when setbacks happen, and we aren't prepared for them, they take a bigger toll on us.

With this realization, I'm resetting my thinking. Instead of comparing my mom's status day to day, I'm comparing it to when we started. I'm realizing that we've come so far and while we are going to keep having wins, we are also probably going to have a couple more setbacks, but that's ok. Anything great and worth doing will never have a straight line to success.

Big Questions of the Week: How do you handle setbacks? Do you take them in stride? Do they paralyze you? Challenge of the Week: Look back at your last major accomplishments and write down any setbacks. Looking in the past and understanding that success is a rollercoaster is a powerful reminder to help you manage setbacks in the future. Quote of the Week: “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”- Arianna Huffington

Photo of the Week: Now that I'm back on the East Coast, I have a weekly date with my favorite sushi spot, Mr. Wasabi. Yum!! Till next week, be kind, be curious and work hard. Tanner