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[virtuous-leadership-school] Do some Daily Pills look Red, but aren’t?

February 16, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Spinner, Otis, Mermaid, Spellcheck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Coffee, talk and opening prayer.

THE THANG:
– Be aware of Daily Pills that look red, but aren’t. You need trusted men around to tell you when your daily decision to do something is off mission. Maybe it looks red to you, but it may be the Daily Black Pill (DBP) – trying to stay active enough to avoid worries, despair and even depression. The DBP house crumbles, eventually.
– Habits eliminate many decisions and the practice of discretion in executing those habits – but can be good or bad. Is your DRP developing the right habits?
– Prov 25:28. Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks discretion.
– Does choice usually lead to the Blue Pill as the QSource says?
– Once you decide on a mission/goal, then a lot of choices are eliminated.
– Denying yourself is the first step in the process of becoming a virtuous leader.
– Is the lack of self discipline a slippery slope?
– Shame – How do you talk to yourself?
– Do you choose the “phariseeic” principle over the person/relationship? Which is better?
– Bricklaying – Peter jumped right in. Paul spent many years, after his conversion, preparing.
– Do you have men who will tell you if you are laying the right bricks?

COT: Prayer.

Strength in Failure

February 8, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: brickyard
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), A-Rod (Nate Peterson), fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Chitchat (Pana), Colonel (Alex Wallace), Spellcheck, Otis, Natty, Gordie, Bail Bonds, Chuck, Madoff
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
SSH, OH claps, Seal Claps, lateral lunges, tie fighters, Manmakers, TN Rocking Chairs, Tempo Merkins, forward lunges, Tempo squats, mucho legos, manmakers

THE THANG:
Failure is a pause >5 seconds

Bleachers 11’s:
Dips and monkey humpers

Field:
Bear Crawl to 25 yrd line
Merkins to failure
Lunge to 50 yrd line
Bobby Hurleys to failure
Burnee back to endzone
Run a lap

Bleachers 11’s:
Incline merkins and air squats

Field:
Bear Crawl to 50 yrd line
Shoulder taps to failure
Super Mario skips to other endzone
Bonnie Blairs to failure
Burnee back 100 yards
Run 2 laps

Do Catalina wine mixers until 0655. Mosey to AO.

MARY:
Supermans
Some stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape Haw Ridge 3/28

COT:
Proverbs 18:21
“Death and Life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Matthew 12:34b
“…for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”

Be careful not to speak from anger and criticism, but choose love and encouragement. The seeds you sow in your conversations as a father and a leader, will determine what relationships you’ll reap. Watch your tone, and give yourself an assessment and challenge yourself to speak with a heart of love and encouragement.

Big Bricks at Brickyard

February 1, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: brickyard
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: Natty, fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Colonel (Alex Wallace), Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), DoorKicker (Jud), Spellcheck, Otis, Chitchat (Pana), Bail Bonds
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Cherry Pickers, Lateral Lunges, OH Claps, Seal Claps, Tie Fighters, Tempo Carolona Dry Docks, Triple Threat Lunges, SSH

THE THANG:
3x through:
Rifle carry loop to start
1 minute tabata, 10 second transition with CMU
Squat Thrusters
Curls
CMU Pull through Merkins
Swings
Upright Rows
Right side standing crunch with CMU
Left side standing crunch with CMU
Bent over Row
Boogaloop run

11’s at the Planters
Dips and Bobby Hurleys

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape Haw Ridge 3/28

COT:
Hebrews 4:16 NLT
[16] So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

Be bold in your pursuit of Christ and be bold in your sharing of the faith.

400 Yards of Burpees

January 30, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: brickyard
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: flyball, Natty, Gordie, Otis, Colonel (Alex Wallace), DUCKHUNT2005, Herbie, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), DoorKicker (Jud), Bail Bonds
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
10 Burpees, SSH, Tie Fighters to and fro, TN Rocking Chairs, OH Claps, Seal Claps, Cherry Pickers, Tempo Merkins, Tempo Squats

THE THANG:
Mosey to the football field.
Bear Crawl 5 yards and do a burpee for 100 yards
Lunge back 5 yards and do a burpee for 100 yards
Run a lap, incorporating running all the bleacher steps
Back to the field for Crunches
Burnee 5 yards and do a burpee for 100 yards
Run 5 yards and do a burpee for 100 yards
Run a lap, incorporating running all the bleacher steps
Back to the field for crunches
Mosey back to AO

MARY:
10 Burpees

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape Haw Ridge coming up March 28th!

COT:
Chadd Wright, 3of7 Podcast, said:
“I hiked the Grand Canyon today. If you have t done it yet, you should…..as soon as possible. I have been many places and have never seen anything like it in terms of landscape. I told my wife, during our hike, ‘I can’t believe we waited this long to do this.’ It’s inexcusable. It made me think of how much we leave on the table in life. How often we pass on the opportunity to create amazing memories….because we’re busy doing things that don’t really matter. Soon enough, it’ll be too late.

Don’t leave life on the table. Bring Glory to God in everything we do. Make memories, because things fail and pass away, but memories last a lifetime. And especially, don’t wait, life is but a vapor, and the days are long but the years are short.

[virtuous-leadership-school] F4 LDP

January 26, 2025 BackBlasts

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.