Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
The Scott Becker Middle Age Score Card 3-17-25
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker shares a personal progress report across business, investments, fitness, tennis, and golf.
Chapter 1: What is the Scott Becker Middle Age Score Card?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Last week, we did with the Elon Musk situation, the Elon Musk scorecard. And a couple of people, I alluded to the fact that I keep a scorecard for myself that goes through various different categories, business and investments and
Fitness, tennis, golf, and sort of across the board, a handful of things that I sort of, I don't know if I exactly score them periodically. I actually put grades on them. But I did want to talk for a second here. I'm not going to go deep because I'm not that deep a person. But I will give you a quick scorecard on the tennis, fitness, and golf category.
Chapter 2: How does Scott evaluate his business performance?
Business and investing, I feel like, is overall going fine. I am certainly not an AA plus investor, but I feel like overall, the different business endeavors I'm involved in, and quite frankly, that's due to the teams that I work with, they're going overall fine. A couple of them are in the AA minus category. One, I'm a little stuck on, but that's one of my own individual efforts.
Chapter 3: What grades does Scott give his investments?
I'd give that a C. but the investments are going fine. I feel good about it. Imperfect, but I'm a very conservative investor. So when the market has lots of volatility, I feel pretty good about where I stand, give myself a B plus on that. You know, even though the market's not cooperating, I feel like I'm comfortable with how I'm doing within it.
In terms of the sports, I would give myself in terms of how I'm playing my middle-aged sports in my fitness is I largely give myself B's to B minuses across the board. The only thing I will tell you is the saving grace is a couple of different things. One is the personal trainer that I work with some, you know, sent out a notice recently that he's doing commercials.
Chapter 4: How is Scott performing in his fitness activities?
And he's going to be taking some shots of pictures of people or videos when they're at the gym for his TikTok advertising, social media advertising, something like that. And, of course, gave you the right to to to go ahead and bow out of that. So you don't have to like you could opt out. But the thing I'll tell you is.
Chapter 5: What challenges does Scott face in tennis and golf?
I might be slightly better than a before and before commercial for fitness right now. I'm not hitting it out of the park. I feel like directly I'm moving in the right direction, but not fantastic. So I give that a before and before picture as advertising, and I give myself a B right now, not doing fine and staying active, not watching my diet as well as I'd like to.
In terms of tennis and golf, it's been an absolutely horrendous golf season, and the only reason I'll give myself a B B on that is directionally, weightly, it's moving in the right direction. I'm hitting the same stroke over and over again. I'm playing much smarter. My putting's improved.
I feel a lot of it's due to both having my head in a good space and also the coach that's giving me some advice on a couple things. I really feel like he's made a difference. So in terms of the personal training and the fitness, a B-ish. The golf, a B-ish. The tennis. The tennis... I, again, I finished second with a team, with a team in a tournament we had this weekend.
The first team was so stacked that I don't feel bad about finishing second. Everybody knew they were going to finish first. Our team, two of our players played fantastically well. And I'll give a quick shout out to them, to Nathan Jaffe, Matt Grable. And then the third player on our team, Phil Richards, played fantastic. So it was a four-person tournament with a lot of round robins and so forth.
And my teammates really carried the weight there. I'll give myself for my tennis lately a B. is serving better than I've served in a long time, but the fitness is holding me back a little bit. I'm not quite as fit and moving as well as I could.
Not to give myself the sorry, sad song, but I've been through a handful of eye surgeries, so I'm not seeing the ball as well as I was, but I'm seeing it better now. So I would say businesses and investments overall going fine. The two core businesses that other people really run today going well. The one that I really run today, eh, going okay.
Tennis, fitness, golf, all in the B, B-minus category. I would say it's not my fault, but it largely is. But moving in the right direction. I feel like directionally moving in the right direction. I know I gave you the Elon Musk scorecard the other day. This is much more personal, much more ridiculous. I hope that somebody enjoys it. Again, Scott Becker, 773-766-5322.
I'm in that period of moment of time now. where I don't feel like I'm excelling at anything. Our podcast is ranked number one or two in the country in Apple businesses, so that's a good sign. Everything else is going okay. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast, and God bless you all. Thank you very, very much.
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