Yo, today's QOD is Adjustment is the key to winning.

Here we go. Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton,

and Sean Croxton.com. We got John C. Maxwell on this show today.

Today, John is talking about the law of the scorecard. You know, I've been reading books about

goals this week. Yesterday, I read Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt. Really good book. Man,

I couldn't put it down.

And then today I'm reading Goals by Brian Tracy, probably the third time I'm reading Brian Tracy's

book on Goals. I highly recommend that. I recommend both of them. When you're setting goals,

and every book you read about goals will tell you these two things. Actually, these three things.

Number one, decide where you want to go. Number two, determine where you are right now,

right? And then in between, number three, as you're moving towards your goal, you want to do

periodic measurement of how far you've come. Like, okay, weekly, monthly, quarterly, okay, where am I now?

Compared to where I was and compared to where I want to go.

And you can use that information.

You can use that scorecard to make decisions and make adjustments and do some of the other things that John's going to talk about in this clip.

John Maxwell is coming up.

Teamwork law number 11, the law of the scoreboard.

The law of the scoreboard says the team can make adjustments when it knows where it stands. Max DePrie, who wrote some great leadership

books, said the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. And the law of the scoreboard

gang, that's what it really does. The law of the scoreboard,

the scoreboard defines what really is. So let me share with you today some statements about the

scoreboard. Number one, the scoreboard is essential to understanding. If you go to any sporting event, the way you

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