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The Win You Wouldn't Count
Published about 21 hours ago • 3 min read
Compete Every Day
The Borrowed Scoreboard
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I spent years embarrassed.
I'm writing this from my office in Frisco, and I'll be honest with you: for years I was embarrassed of this room. Floor-to-ceiling boxes, shelves, product, wireframe racks.
Before this, it was my garage - the whole thing stacked with inventory through COVID.
I still remember the day my first book arrived. Boxes of Compete Every Day, my name on the cover, and I filmed the whole thing — a published author, finally.
Supervised by my two boxers Huckleberry & Sugar (I miss them so much)
But even while I was filming, I was cringing at the inventory behind me, because it didn't match the picture in my head. The big warehouse. The big team. The kind of setup that looks impressive on a YouTube tour.
Every time I walked out there to fill orders, I measured the real room against that picture. And I always came up short.
Here's the strange part: nothing was wrong.
Business was good. I just couldn't see it. For years I didn't post a single photo of my own office, because someone out there always had a bigger room.
I was measuring a real, working business against a picture in my head that was never mine to match. And it turns out that move — turning a win you earned into a loss — is measurable.
Researchers studied medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics, reading the emotion on their faces in the moments after they finished. The bronze medalists looked happier than the silver medalists.
The silvers were comparing up — I almost had gold.
The bronzes were comparing down — I almost had nothing.
Same podium. Opposite scoreboard. Your feeling about a real win depends less on what you did than on the number you set it next to.
I heard a comedian, Ali Siddiq, describe booking a theater and getting an allotment of 2,200 seats in a 4,800-seat room. He sold every one — and he celebrated it, because the empty seats were never his to fill. They were never on his scorecard.
That's the borrowed scoreboard.
You hit a number you worked for, and before you even feel it, you swap it for someone else's — and on theirs, you're behind. It's rigged to keep you losing.
So today, before you scroll one more feed, name one win from the last 90 days you never let yourself count:
the PR you shrugged off
the launch milestone you buried
the week you showed up when everything in you wanted to quit.
Write it somewhere you'll see it tomorrow: a sticky note, your lock screen, the bathroom mirror. Say it out loud.
Then answer one question in writing: was it actually small - or did it only look small next to a scoreboard that was never mine?
One win. Named and counted. That's it.
You don't build confidence by refusing to count what you earned. You build it by beating yesterday's version of you — and being honest enough to say you did.
When you hit a goal you worked for - whose scoreboard do you reach for first?
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No fluff. No rah-rah. Just tactical, real-world strategies to help you compete today - at work, at home, in life. Because life’s too short to drift through it.