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Tag: Borg

[qsource-ao] Candor is not a place in Star Wars

AO: qsource-ao
Q: Borg , Spellcheck
PAX: Spellcheck, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
THE COMMON GOAL: Consistently invest the time necessary to grow into Virtuous Leaders surrounded by men we know we can trust.

THE THANG: Discuss how our individual beliefs create a personal lens that affects how we attempt to lead with examples of successes and failures. Today, specifically, CANDOR.

MARY: Team exercise: Stretch our mindsets by listening and connecting to each other’s worlds, looking for what’s missing/hesitations, laughing and commiserating.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Unanimous team agreement to move to a different place and time. We crave sustenance and warmth in the wee hours. Details to come.
2. UpandRunningAgain has started and the men are seeing improvements after only one week. Goal: We started with 12, we will end with 12 at The Secret City Half Marathon. You can still volunteer to run alongside these men who are working thru rehab programs. It may change your life. Reply here or DM Borg for details.

COT: Closed in prayer.

[kettlebell-workouts] Bumping up the weight

AO: kettlebell-workouts
Q: Borg
PAX: Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 1
WARMUP: Prayer time
– Hip hinges 10
Lightest KB:
– Slingshot 20 EA
– Deadlift 10 EA
– Halo 5 EA
– Slingshot 20EA
– BW Squat 10

THE THANG:
Working on technique.
Up the weight on KBs a bit.

– 4 min workouts 2, 3, and 4.

5 sets:
– 5 Front Squat
– 5 Swing
– 5 Press
– 5 Clean
– 5 Thrusters

COT: When the conversation turns to fringe cases as objections, then you have not been persuasive in articulating your vision. If you continue, then you may end up exhorting apples to oranges.

[qsource-ao] Q3.5 – Articulation

AO: qsource-ao
Q: Steam
PAX: Spellcheck, Mermaid, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
This morning we discussed f3nation.com/articulation. In a conversational format, here’s what went down:
– Q3.5 Intro
– Spur/Socratic
– Questions/Challenges
– Vision discussion about this AO and others

Take the questions in the pic above :arrow_up: and apply them to your spheres of influence this week. Iron Sharpens Iron!

[qsource-ao] Kickoff for QSource AO

AO: qsource-ao
Q: Borg
PAX: Mermaid, Spellcheck, Borg, Steam
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Chat until 6a.m.

THE THANG:
Started at 6a.m.
Discussion points
1. Vision is for this to grow. Everyone attending can take this and start a new one. The ET Super Region is an easy drive through the valley.
2. QSOURCE AO best practices doc and standardization to maintain duplicatability.
3. Leadership must be Nant’an style, all are prepared to lead each week, just in case. Imagine an Indian warrior just itching to step in and take the lead.
4. Flag Care – the standard seems to be to keep the flag in the vehicle, protected, and the shovel anywhere it will fit.
5. Pushing rope – how do you know when you are? Discussed Examples of getting to know someone who was a pain, and then having a better appreciation for them after knowing their story.
6. How many of your close personal friends have accepted your invitation to F3? For at least two of us it was zero.
7. What is Mutual Competence? Discussed Flesh Anchors and Twelves and the ad/disad of the two. Is there always a Flesh Anchor? QSOURCE says every team has one.
8. So much more as the sun rose on a beautiful morning.
9. Every activity must include an attitude of training.
10. Every activity must include discerning when you are picking up the six vs when you are dragging a flesh anchor who has quit and is just dragging others down. This is a really tough one.

Stopped at 7a.m. But, then discussed what worked and what didn’t in this kickoff, see the AAR, below.

COT:
AAR
Sustain:
1. Q being prepared with notes.

Change:
1. Start by reading the QPoint and Socratics.
2. Plan to split into groups of 3-4 for a specific time period to discuss specific items.
3. Explain the lingo, when necessary.
4. Everyone, be concise when speaking. Be Spartan, “laconic”, in the use of words, so we don’t box others out. The Spartans respected brevity in speaking.
Closed in prayer.

The Princess Bride

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack
PAX: Ocho, Munge, Flying Dutchman, OBrother, Borg, Mathlete, Biohack, Tom Tom, Nerf
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
– Warm Up
1. Projectivator
2. Overhead clap
3. Imperial Squalker
4. Tempo merkins
5. Cherry pickers
–
– Workout
1. Run to the parallel bars
2. 20 inverse rows as we sail to the Cliffs of Insanity!
3. 10 Wallpies and go over the pool wall.
1. First one over must say the quote (I swear on the soul of my father, Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive).
1. Left side plank for 30 sec.
1. Why are you smiling?
2. I know something you don’t know.
3. I’m not left handed
1. Right side plank for 30 sec.
2. My way is not very sportsman-like
1. Hang from the monkey bars for 1 min.
1. Run to the bell.
2. Build immunity to iocane powder.
1. 20 dips
1. Run to K25 hill and to the top.
2. Roll down the hill towards the fire swamp.
3. Run back up and over and leap the fire geyser at the bottom.
4. Ring of fire as we battle rodents of unusual size.
5. Squatting ring of fire as we escape the lightning sand.
6. We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
7. Death march to the bell as we fall into the pit of despair.
8. Not to 50! 50 dips
9. Buddy carry across the field as we take Westley to Miracle Max
1. Switch out halfway
1. If only we had a Wheelbarrow
1. Partner wheelbarrow back to the bell
1. Mawage is what bwings us togetwar, today
1. Al Gore while we quote the scene (Wuv, twoo wuv also)
1. The chase! Jail break to the shovel flag. No wammies!
2. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
1. Overhead clap. In cadence. Until it hurts like you’ve been stabbed in the arms.
1. To the pain!
1. Ring of fire.

– Word
Inigo Montoya was a tragic character. Not only was his father killed when he was a boy, but his life was consumed with revenge. It dominated his existence.

The Bible tells us the bitterness ensnares us like a weed. His heart and life were being strangled by this weed. The best way to get rid of a weed is to tear it out by the root when it is small. If you wait, it does more damage and is harder to remove.