We are looking at success and this is hard thing to get your head around, but it's like a globe,

like Earth, and you keep zooming out or looking at different parts of Earth. We've looked at financial, we've looked at professional, we've looked at personal success, what kind of character do you have? Are you living up to your own standards of what it means to be a successful person? Well, the fourth and final one, probably the most important one for me, if you zoom all the way out,

even if you're a good person, what are you...

Welcome to the real estate and financial independence podcast.

I'm your host, Chad Carson.

You can also call me coach,

and this is a show all about helping you get out of the financial grind so you can do more

of what matters. Whether you're a brand new listener or a long-time listener, it's always an honor

to have you back for another episode. The title of today's episode is, Are You Successful? How

To Measure What Matters. The origin or the backstory of this episode is, as many of you know, I've been writing a book.

So if you've been on my newsletter list every week, I've been sharing little snippets from the book.

The book is called The Small and Mighty Investor.

I'm writing it through the end of this year in 2022 and hope to publish it with bigger pockets

in the fall of 2023.

But again, back to the origin story of this episode is in the first part of the book,

I talk about the seven rules of a small and mighty investor.

And I try to lay out what it means to be an investor who doesn't have to be huge and

go big and dominate the entire world and have thousands of units

in order to be a, quote, successful investor.

And rule number seven of the small and mighty investor is about defining your own success.

And that's what I want to talk to you about in this episode, because a big part of real

estate investing is, I want to use a metaphor here, is it's like you're playing a game or a sport. Now, I love sports. Many of you know, I play a lot of pickup basketball. I used to play football. That's how I paid my way through college at Clemson University. And sports are a great metaphor for a few reasons. If you think about real estate investing, you think about the financial game you're playing, you have referees, you have rules. There's laws you have to apply, you have to pay your taxes, there's regulations you have to follow. That's kind of like the referee, but you also have this definition of success. So when you play basketball, winning the game is scoring the most points and winning a championship, you go through

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