[lostpearls] 7 of Diamonds MJ Style

AO: lostpearls
Q: flyball
PAX: Freebird, Mathlete, Mooch, Wild Thing (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Ti Fighters
Hillbillies
Grady Corn
Cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Mosey to softball field

7 of diamonds:

Starting at home plate, sprint the bases stopping at each base to perform the following exercises at each one. Each time around the bases, the exercises and reps change.

– Round 1: 7 burpees
– Round 2: 14 MTC’s 4 ct
– Round 3: 21 merkins
– Round 4: 28 squats
– Round 5: 21 dry docks
– Round 6: 14 cross body MT ‘s
– Round 7: 7 burpees

Mosey to basketball court for some bone the fish, half court lunge walks, and half court broad jumps.

Mosey back to the AO.

MARY:
Squat hold
25 4ct flutter kicks
25 Superman’s
25 LBC’s 4ct
25 Box Cutters 4ct

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Forgot to mention these because I always do…

– Convergence July 12 0700 at the Project for new region kickoff
– F3 Dad Camp Aug 15-17

COT:
The greatest basketball player of all time was quoted as saying…

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan

Failure is a mindset.
Failure doesn’t define us.
Failure isn’t final.

I often tell my kids and the people I work with that I expect them to make mistakes. I want them to push themselves and if they aren’t making mistakes then they aren’t pushing themselves enough. I do not characterize those mistakes as failures.

If MJ had given up or let those failures define him, we would have been robbed of 6 championships, the coveted number 23, (today’s date by the way 6/23), the Air Jordan from the free throw line, and the list goes on and on. There have been some amazing athletes to play the game of basketball but none that matched the mindset of Jordan.

This concept of failure reminds me of a verse in Micah, one of the minor prophets in the Old Testament.

“Do not rejoice over me, enemy of mine. Though I fall I will rise; Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.”
‭‭Micah‬ ‭7‬:‭8‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Micah, just like MJ didn’t allow failure to define him. Micah kept his eye on the end goal, which was God.

No matter what happens to us here, we can persevere. Let find a way this week to have an MJ mentality.