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How do you know if you\u2019re winning in life?\nIt\u2019s Easier in sports where there\u2019s a scoreboard, but even that isn\u2019t always reflective of true winning. You might lose the game but still be winning in personal improvements, performance, effort, giving your best, sportsmanship, integrity, grit, etc\n\nWhat about each of the areas of your life?\nHow do you know if you\u2019re winning?\nDo you have a scoreboard? \nAre you keeping score? In what ways?\nAre you trying to compete with others or with yourself, or with an ideal?\n\nSome are not keeping score at all. They have no idea how they\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t think about it; they don\u2019t measure it; they\u2019re so distracted, or unconscious, or in survival mode, or on autopilot, that they have no clear picture of how they\u2019re doing. \n\nSome are even against keeping score at all. \nThey may not like the idea of tracking, measuring, or scoring. \n\nYou can\u2019t master what you don\u2019t measure!\n\nI\u2019m choosing to win as a man! As a man. \nThat includes several roles. \nI\u2019m not trying to only win in business. That would be a loss to me as a man. \nI\u2019m not trying to win only as a husband or father. That too would be a loss to me as a man. \n\nSo I will necessarily \u201close\u201d on other people\u2019s scoreboards. \nSome will see me as average in their field. That\u2019s okay with me. I\u2019m keeping score differently. \n\nStop getting caught up in other peoples scoreboards. \nStop living and measuring your work and life by other people\u2019s scoreboards. \nCreate your own scoreboard, or you will always be measuring yourself against other people\u2019s scoreboards. \n\nThis is one reason why you often see epic failures that seem to come out of nowhere. \nThey were trying to win on other people\u2019s scoreboards. \n\nWhat does Winning look like in each of those roles?\nWhat what does losing look like in each of those roles?\n\nIt\u2019s impossible for you to win if you\u2019re not clear what winning looks like. \n\n\u2014Creating your own scoreboard.\nIt will require time, effort, research, discernment, and wisdom. Wisdom is not easily won. \nYou will want to read from the greatest religious texts of all time, to study the lives and teachings of the best men who have ever lived. You will want to carefully analyze incomes and outcomes, and the ultimate results of their lives.\nThe last thing you want to do in life is try to win on the wrong scoreboard. That\u2019s like climbing the proverbial ladder that\u2019s leaning against the wrong wall. \n\nNor do you want to avoid being wrong so much that you never establish any scoreboard at all. \nYou can\u2019t wait until you\u2019re 90 and you\u2019ve had all that life experience to make your scoreboard either. So we are left to make the best decisions we can right now and improve them as we go.\nFortunately, there are loads of great books. Unfortunately, there are also loads of trash books filled with really stupid ideas and really bad advice. And not just books. Blogs, podcasts, and posts abound with some of the worst advice ever uttered by human beings. \nI saw a genuine question posted in a FB group for men from a gentleman who seemed to sincerely want to know how to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. Some of the advice in the comments was genuinely the worst advice I have ever heard or seen. It was unbelievable.\n\nTake advice from people whose WHOLE life you would like to emulate. Otherwise you might embrace an idea from a financially successful man who is morally bankrupt or completely overdrawn in all his most important relationships.