Overcoming Setbacks: Why Feeling ‘Back Here’ May Mean You’re Actually Progressing

Growth and progress are not linear.

Once you understand this, you free yourself from the pressure of believing it.

Something came up for a client the other day, and it’s something I’ve experienced 1st hand.

Growth. Growth. Growth.

Progress. Progress. Progress.

Then it happens.

A screeching halt — followed by the sinking feeling of falling backward, followed by one of the most frustrating sentences ever,

“I’m back here again.”

“Here” isn’t really a place; you can’t find it on a map. But you can certainly feel it.

And it sucks.

You experience all this growth and progress on your goals — and BAM — you’re back “here” again.

It’s frustrating and can be enough to stop you altogether.

But there is something wildly significant to understand when you’re back “here.”

Growth and progress are not linear.

Your current “here” is higher than your last “here.” Your next “here” will be higher than your current “here.”