Don’t Skip – F3 Knoxville

THE SCENE: 34 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:
WARM-O-RAMA:

Reach for the sky
LBAC F&B OYO
Let it hang
Monkey humpers IC x 10
Mountain climbers IC x 10
Tempo merkins IC x 8
Down dog / Up dog
Projectivator from 10

Mosey to the long guardrail and line up.

5 merkins, jump over the rail, 5 bobby hurleys, jump back over and repeat until time is called

THA THANG:

Mosey to King College parking lot – grab a CMU and line up.

Do 1 blockee. Rifle carry 2 parking lines and do 1 blockee. Repeat to the end of the lot. (~15 blockees).

Line up at the bottom of the Award Winning Hill.

Carry your block to the first tree. Do 10 curl/presses and 10 CMU swings. Set your block down. Run to the bottom of the hill and back to your block. Carry it to the next tree and repeat to the top (7 trees).

Recover to the top of the hill. Heavy BBS x 10 OYO. Heavy freddys IC.

Same deal as before, only this time from the top down…15 squats each tree.

Recover to the bottom of the hill.

Rifle carry 5 parking lines and do 2 burpee jumpovers. Repeat to the end of the lot.

MARY:

Around the circle, each PAX led a Mary exercise.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Five Juconians and 2 Rushens.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I tagged on to Pool Boy’s Q from Monday. He quoted the 18^th century minister, John Newton. The essence of the quote was…your life will have challenges and burdens, visualized as a huge bundle of sticks. You don’t need to try to carry the whole bundle every day. Rather, carry today’s stick today and tomorrow’s stick tomorrow. Every day you carry one stick.

I turned that quote around backwards to make another point. You carry one stick every day. This morning’s challenge was about consistency.

Do you know what happened 9 years ago today on the tiny island nation of Samoa? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing significant or insignificant. Nothing happened at all because nine years ago, December 30^th did not occur in Samoa. In 2011, the nation voted to change where the International Date Line falls relative to their island. They actually curved the IDL around their island (doing so improved business relations with some of their biggest trading partners, Australia and New Zealand…). So, at midnight on December 29th, the IDL changed and Samoa went from being the westernmost nation on earth – to being the easternmost nation on earth. They moved the line that divides our days and in doing so, they went from December 29^th to December 31^st – and skipped an entire day.

What’s my point?

As you are accelerating your fitness, your fellowship, and your faith – don’t skip a day. Keep your routine. Complete one small challenge each day and, over time, you move yourself closer and closer to being a true HIM.

A famous Samoan scholar, Dwayne Johnson, has said, “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”

What do you wish you could be successful at? The good news is that you don’t have to be great at it today. You just have to be consistent in your pursuit of it.

Fitness? You’ve all proven that you have what it takes to get out of bed and be here at 5:30 – great! Now, do it again Friday. Then again Monday, Wednesday, and Friday next week. Consistent hard work leads to success.

Fellowship? You want to have great relationships and deep fellowship with other HIMs? Stick around and chat for a minute after the picture. DM these guys on Slack and catch up on their lives. With consistent investment in your relationships, over time, greatness will come.

Faith? Me too. There is one particular element of my faith that I want to be successful in – leading my family. For many years of my marriage and many years of my time as a father, I have struggled to be a successful spiritual leader for my family. I could start leading with enthusiasm but would soon get discouraged and stop. About two years ago, I finally started to hit my stride. You know what had changed? A realization that I didn’t have to be great – just consistent. I couldn’t pray elegant prayers over my wife every night. I couldn’t prepare a mind-blowing devotion every night. I wasn’t – and am still not – great. But can I pray a simple prayer over my wife today? Sure. Can I read a short passage to my kids after dinner? Yeah. Now – can I do it again tomorrow? Absolutely. Rinse and repeat.

Success in the areas of fitness, fellowship, and faith is achievable for you. Do the do-able thing today. Do it again tomorrow….and the day after….and they day after.

MOLESKIN:

If he were here, I bet Snaggletooth would have known about Samoa…

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