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The path to success is often like the path to recovery and healing – riddled with ups and downs that rise higher and higher.
If you were expecting to walk a straight line to success, you might be in for a rude shock. This article might help you adjust your mind so you are not shocked when it doesn’t pan out that way.
The linear path to success is possible, but it is rare. Many journeys to the peak of a mountain involve one or more trips down into troughs or dips, and sometimes into proper valleys.
Apple. Microsoft. LEGO. Amazon. These are all successful business names that you can identify with. Achieving success was not a linear experience for any them. They did not rise up in a straight curve but in a zigzag fashion.
Here is the pattern: they experience some wins, more wins, then a setback, more wins, another hitch, followed by another stretch of win, then another loss, and so on, and so forth.
The path to success is often a vertical zigzag, or a series of waves of highs and lows, that gets higher and higher over time. Know this and know peace as you trudge on in your journey of life.
