Understanding Your Success Score

summary

Branden Sewell shares insights on success, leadership, and personal values from his latest episode, emphasizing the importance of understanding your own goals and avoiding social media comparisons.


 keywords

leadership, success, personal values, self-awareness, business growth, motivation, season of life, goal setting


 key  topics

The importance of knowing your personal success metrics
How seasons of life influence your definition of success
The role of social media in comparison and self-doubt
Adjusting goals and systems as life changes
The significance of a scoreboard in measuring progress


 takeaways

Success is subjective and varies by individual and season.
Knowing your own goals and values is crucial to defining success.
Social media can distort perceptions of success and lead to unhealthy comparisons.
Flexibility in goals and systems is necessary as life circumstances change.
A clear scoreboard helps track progress and make necessary adjustments.


Titles

Understanding Your Success Score
The Power of Personal Values in Business


 sound bites

"Success is different for everybody."
"Don't compare yourself to someone in a different season."
"Know what success looks like for you."


Chapters

00:00 Introduction and episode overview
00:30 The importance of community involvement in marketing
00:57 Reading from Leadership Promises for Every Day by John Maxwell
01:26 The concept of the scoreboard in success
01:57 Different ways teams measure success
02:27 Why the scoreboard becomes more important than the game plan
02:55 Success varies based on personal values and season of life
03:22 How personal circumstances influence success definitions
04:48 The danger of social media comparisons
05:17 Knowing yourself and defining your success
05:48 The need for flexibility and reevaluation
06:13 Avoiding comparison with others in different life seasons
07:12 Encouragement to listeners and closing remarks

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Transcript

Branden Sewell (00:01.762)
I'm Brandon Sole, owner of SEALPRO Painting and the host of the Off the Ladder Podcast. And we exist to help home service business owners learn so that they can lead well and ultimately live life off of the ladder. today's episode is a shorter episode. I hope you guys have been able to listen to this past Wednesday's episode with John Kiefer. really great episode talking about just the power of getting involved in your community.

and how that can help you with marketing and reducing your marketing cost just by simply being involved. so powerful stuff there. Go listen to that. I think you'll get a lot out of it. If you're joining in for the first time, these are shorter episodes that I I'm doing daily just to give you something quick and actionable to you know put to use in your business. So

Hopefully you can listen to this on the way to a job site or maybe on your drive home and get a quick leadership tip to help you write where you're at and put something into action fast. I've been reading from Leadership Promises for Every Day by John Maxwell. and today the title is What's the Score? Scripture is I planted Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Corinthians three, six through seven. John Maxwell goes on to write every endeavor or game in life has its own rules and its own definition of what it means to win. Some teams measure their success in points scored, others in profits.

Still, others may look at the number of people they serve, but no matter what the game is, there is always a scoreboard. And if a team is to accomplish its goals, it has to know the score. Why is the score so important? Because teams that succeed make adjustments to continually improve themselves and their situations. In preparation, teams come up with a detailed game plan.

Branden Sewell (02:27.128)
But as the game goes on, the game plan means less and less, while the scoreboard becomes more and more important. Why? Because the game is constantly changing. You see, the game plan tells you what you want to happen, but the scoreboard tells you what is happening. I love this, and really what my favorite part of this was the fact that success is

Is different for everybody, right? what it looks like for one person to win isn't what it looks like for another to win. And, you know, some of that comes down to what your values are and what your personal you know, morals and ethics are. and that's going to shape how you see success.

I think the other thing that's going to determine success is especially in business, is what your personal life demands of you. and what I mean by that is, you know, someone who has who is like, let's say a single young guy who's running a home service business, success to that single young guy with no family who's just hustling.

could mean working seven days a week, working as many hours as they can, like stacking up as much money as they possibly can and just absolutely crushing it when they're a single young guy. now that same success is not going to be the same for, let's say, like someone like me who's married and has three kids.

My priorities are going to be different. My values are going to be different because I'm in a different season of life. And so I think what is especially in today's world, a trap that many business owners can fall into is looking on social media and saying, like, starting to compare themselves and feel bad about where they are.

Branden Sewell (04:48.39)
Or make plans about what they need to do in their business based on somebody's life that was built on values that are completely different and priorities that are completely different, that's in a completely different season of life. And so you're basing what you're going to do or your lack of success on somebody who's in a completely different season. And so I think that what's really important is for you to know.

know yourself, know what your goals are, know what your plans are, know what success means for you. And then yes, have a scoreboard. Be able to say, like, hey, here outline this is what success looks to me looks like to me. This is you know, what it looks like financially, this is what it looks like as far as my time goes. this is what it looks like, you know, in all these different ways. And here's my scoreboard and here's how I'm gonna track my success. And like again

This talked about like the things change, right? So your how you're gonna measure your s success in one season, your life is gonna be different in another. So you have to be flexible too to be able to reevaluate and restructure and you know, maybe change certain systems and processes to support new seasons of your life.

And so I guess my encouragement in this episode really is just to drive him the fact that don't compare yourself to somebody else in a different season of life. And then make sure that whoever you are looking up to is accomplishing what you want to, but with the same set of values so that you're not compromising on what's important to you. And it's okay, like your success does not have to look like somebody else's.

I think at the end of the day, you should be you should be the one who is satisfied with what you're accomplishing. It doesn't matter what other people think. So hope that encourages that encourages you today. Ooh. it's getting late. so if you enjoyed this episode, share it with somebody else. hopefully they'll get something out of it. And if you're like I said, if you haven't listened to the episode on Wednesday, go listen to that.

Branden Sewell (07:12.3)
I hope you'll come back for future episodes and hopefully you get something out of it. if you need any resource resources for your business, check the show notes below. Use my affiliate links. I do get credit. And, you know, I hope that if you're listening to this and you're a regular listener of the All the Letter podcast, please reach out to me. I'd love to hear from you, know who you are, know where you're listening from, see what you think about the podcast and see if it's bringing value.

see what maybe you need help with in your business, and maybe I can help bring some resources to the Off the Ladder Podcast to help you out. well, that's it for now, and I'll see you guys next time on the next episode of the Off the Ladder Podcast.