Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

You're Watching The Wrong Scoreboard #substack #shorts

19 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker warns entrepreneurs that they often misinterpret the signals from their business activities. He likens a small launch to a modest meal, suggesting that people mistakenly view modest results as failures because they compare them to the wrong benchmark. The core point introduced is that many business owners are focusing on the wrong metrics—what he calls “the wrong scoreboard”—and need to shift their perspective to evaluate performance more appropriately.

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That sometimes we misread the signals in our business. So sometimes we have a small lunch and we think it's like our small lunch, we can eat a small portion too. Back to the conversation, we have a small launch and we think it's like we failed or we have an offer and it's not going the way we thought it was. And he brings a very important point and that's the topic that we're going to be Exploring here, sometimes we are looking at the wrong thing, and the way he calls it, it's