The scale vs me

That scale....the one that sits in the corner stating at me, taunting me. The one that says I dare you to throw me away...because I know you'll last half a day with out me. 

That damn scale. 

The one that I get on religiously every morning. That one that I then get on religiously every night. 

That awful scale.

Although, if I'm being fair, it's not all the scale's fault. Whether I have the scale or don't have the scale, a healthy view of my body is not something I believe I will ever have. 

I wonder about that sometimes. What caused it? What could have prevented it? Anything? Certainly I always compared myself to my skinny friends, the ones who naturally wore a size 4. My grandma always used to comment on my weight to tell me how fat I was getting. What was it about me, that I won the slow metabolism lottery?

At any rate, here I am now. 115 lbs lighter. I ran two miles today. And yet I got on the scale when I got home and was disappointed with what I saw. 

That damn scale. 

Success

I asked my employees today what success looked like to them. When they came in to the office in the morning and when they went home at the end of the day, how did they know they were successful? I got responses like "I helped my field" or "I entered order and followed them from beginning to end." And then I said So what? And they looked at me a little shocked but I said think about it a minute. You're talking very tactically, which of course is part of your job. But, are you also taking your time? Or are you rushing through one email to the next not knowing the root cause of the problem? Are you being a servant leader by making sure your field teams have what they need or are you rolling your eyes because how could they possibly not know how to fill out a change order?

So I challenged them to look at success in a different form. Did you come in and did you do, to the best of your ability and beyond your job? Did you take servant leadership and humble yourself and say what is that I can do for you? Did you take your time to make sure all of the updates are where they need to be? Or are you rushing through life half assign everything you touch?success has to do with numbers, sure. But the true meaning of success is did you accomplish your goals in the best way possible. Did you try your hardest and leave nothing on the field? Then you were successful.