F3 Knoxville

Tag: Borg

[lostpearls] St. Patrick’s Foul Poles

AO: lostpearls
Q: flyball
PAX: Bail Bonds, Mathlete, Biohack, Matt Slone, Gmail, Natty, Colonel (Alex Wallace), Borg, flyball, 30 second warning, Double-Dip
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
SSH x 21
Ti fighters forward/reverse x 15
Cherry pickers x 10
Tempo squats x 10

THE THANG:
17’s in honor of St. Patrick (3/17) on the big softball field foul pole to foul pole. Burpees on one side and curb tricep dips on the other

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape from Haw Ridge

COT:
St. Patrick was a British saint who was enslaved by the Irish at a young age. God gave him a vision one day of how and when to escape so he did fleeing back to Britain and devoting his life to the Lord.

You might ask why St. Patrick is revered in Irish folklore, well he got another vision to go back to Ireland and evangelize the Pagans that lived there. He is considered the reason Christianity was brought to Ireland in the first place.

What stands out to me about St. Patrick was his willingness to obey the calling God placed on his life.

While we’re not all called to convert thousands by preaching the gospel, God has a calling for each one of us. Maybe our calling is to be a good dad, husband, brother, son, etc. or maybe God is calling you to get outside of your comfort zone. Maybe you’re living your calling or maybe we need to make some sort of adjustment to be in better alignment with His calling. One thing is clear, we’ve each been given today as a gift.

Let’s all take one step further down the path of obedience today, just like St. Patrick did with his captors. He loved others and loved God so much that he was willing to go back to those who imprisoned him to save them. Let’s choose obedience this day.

[virtuous-leadership-school] F4 LDP

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Pebbles(Kenaniah Rush), Mermaid, Spinner, McFly, Otis, Borg, Skeletor
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
The is morning we took Virtuous Leadership on the road. We started at 0600 and kept the cadence of our Sunday morning meeting. We met at the Victory lodge at Wafloy Mountain Retreat. This was during the Forg3 retreat where we studied Virtuous Leadership in the context of q.1 get right, q.2 live right, q.3 lead right, and q.4 leave right.

We did our study of LDP (the leadership development process) as a lead in to studying lead right with Borg . The LDP focuses on another acronym SAOF which stands for:

Schooling – essentially what we are doing with Virtuous Leadership
Apprenticeship- once you have been educated, you work alongside someone who is a leader
Opportunity- you get to practice being a leader
Failure- you have to fail or “court minor disaster” in order to improve leadership. Essentially learn through a series of mistakes.

We were a little slow and sleep deprived to get started. But as per the usual, this was another highly impactful meeting that even with a location change and new faces, we still managed to enlightening conversation that sharped iron.

As guys woke up, our numbers grew and we had lots of participation towards the end. We discuss the SAOF approach and how it applied to being a leader at work and especially with our kids.

Two quotes from Dr Brad Greene who I listened to in a leadership presentation this week.

“We can waste time, but time is never wasted”

When we are empowering a new leader, it takes time and feels like a waste because we can do it faster and easier. But that investment is not wasted time in the long run when you have developed a new leader.

“Fail cheaply”

When I asked Dr Greene about the best way to train a young leader, like my kids, as they don’t teach leadership directly in college. His reply was that kids, or new leaders need to be provided opportunities to fail cheaply. A brand new driver doesn’t need and expensive sports car or luxury vehicle. When the inevitable car accident, bad parking job, or fender bender occurs, that is the opposite of failing cheaply.

Today was an amazing morning, and I am a better man for sharing the insights we had this morning.

[virtuous-leadership-school] Waffle House

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Borg, Spellcheck, Baby Boomer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
This week’s QPoint (4.7) was Equipping. We had great discussion about putting a team together that plays to each members strengths, rather than teaching skills where we are weak. We had a dynamic conversation about marriage and the “mission” & “submission”. I think we all continue to be amazed at how relevant this material and subsequent conversation this is every single week. This is a time worth the sacrifice on Sunday AM.

[mountainbiking] Sharps Saturday

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Tank (Chris DeFranco)
PAX: Borg, Sambo, Tank (Chris DeFranco), @Buzzard
FNGs: 1 @Buzzard
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: n/a

THE THANG: loop around Lincoln, up sharp shin and down Firebreak. Up the road to then down independence. We lost Borg so I climbed back up on the bike and back down. Then we took Lincoln around to the backside and found him. Climbed back up push line and rode down nightfall. Times back up, sharpen and pitch black

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

COT: don’t live in fear of losing your salvation. Have trust and hope in God‘s perfect redemption of our sins. “Jesus died for us while we were still sinners.”