What’s your EOS Life score?

Last week, I was in Detroit for one of our Quarterly Collaborative Exchanges, where EOS Implementers come together to work on mastery, purity, community, and The EOS Life.

At some point, a few Implementers asked me a question I probably should’ve been asking myself:

How am I doing at living The EOS Life?

So I did something that was a little uncomfortable.

I rated myself.

If you’re not familiar with The EOS Life, it’s built around five things:

• Doing what you love
• With people you love
• Making a huge difference
• Being compensated appropriately
• Having time to pursue other passions

The goal is a 10 out of 10 in all five.

Here’s how I scored.

Doing what I love: 10.

I love serving EOS Implementers and clients, creating useful content, and leading an organization that’s making a meaningful impact. And I have a wonderful Integrator who owns many of the things I’m not great at and don’t particularly enjoy doing.

With people I love: 10.

I get to work alongside people who share our Core Values. That doesn’t mean every interaction is perfect, but I feel incredibly fortunate to be surrounded by people I genuinely want to work with.

Making a huge difference: 10.

I get to see the impact EOS has every day. People tell us EOS gave them their life back, helped their marriage, gave them more time with their kids, or helped them build a healthier business.

Those first three were easy. The next two made me squirm a little.

Being compensated appropriately: 5.

I made a deliberate choice several years ago to trade some near-term compensation for the opportunity to create long-term value.

If I’m looking at what I earn today, it’s a 5. If I’m looking at the long-term value I’m building, I might answer very differently.

Having time to pursue other passions: 1.

That one was harder to rationalize.

We’re in a particularly demanding season at EOS Worldwide. I’m traveling more than I want to, and my family is paying the price for my schedule. This summer, we had three days of vacation, and I worked through most of them.

I kept telling myself it was temporary.

So there they were: 10, 10, 10, 5, and 1.

Looking at those five numbers together was pretty revealing. Three came easily. One depended on how I looked at it. And one was staring me right in the face.

It brought me back to something an Implementer said during QCE:

What you tolerate, you endorse.

That was hard to argue with.

If I keep tolerating a schedule that leaves no room for family, friends, hobbies, or much of anything outside work, at some point I have to admit I’m not just surviving a busy season. I’m choosing it.

The day after QCE, I canceled my meetings and took a trip with my family. That certainly didn’t turn my 1 into a 10. But it was a start.

And I think that’s what I took away from this exercise.

The score matters, but what you do with it matters even more.

So, what’s your EOS Life score?

If you rated yourself honestly on all five today, where would you have the most work to do?

And what would have to change to move that score closer to a 10?