Finish What You Start

Pax:  Rafiki, Napalm, Chitwood, Meat Sweats, Flying Tomato, McQueen, Macho Man, Colt, T-Bone, Neo, Yonkers, Roadhouse, Bluegrass & Poacher

Warmup

• Boxtrot
• 10x Burpees
• Windmills
• Imperial Walkers
• Arm Circles
• Boxtrot

Beat Down & Down Painment (>20 lb coupons (BYOD – Bring Your Own Dread), life’s about choices)

• Boxtrot with coupon to corner, 5x rounds, capped by 10 burpees
  • 10x side straddle hops
  • 10x coupon curls
  • 10x WWII situps
  • 10x squats
  • 10x lawn mowers
• Boxtrot with coupon to corner, 5x rounds, capped by 10 burpees
  • 10x Bearpees
  • 10x hand release Merkins
  • 10x LBCs
  • 10x flutter kicks
  • 10x coupon swings

Announcements: Men’s fraternity starts back up again in September. F3 Albermarle Truebadors will come to work out with F3Sandhills on Sep 17^th. Clown car on Sep 30. Mentorship on 19 Sep at Tomato’s pool house.

Prayer: Meat Sweats led us out in prayer.

Moleskine: It would appear that I had a rather optimistic outlook on the total amount of work that the pax could complete during my last Q. When Capn’ D suddenly canceled for this past Friday, it was a perfect opportunity to finish what we started in the gloom. After all, I am a giver and I don’t want to cheat any of the pax.

     As a leader in our families, during paid work, or in our communities, we often start multiple projects. Of course, today’s environment requires us to multitask, starting and working on projects simultaneously. However, without a plan, tracker, and accountability, it is pretty difficult to remember all of those missions that we begin. Aviators are trained very early to keep track of the many tasks they need to accomplish through the use of a checklist. Aviators’ use of a checklist remains mandatory, not just common practice or a good idea, even for those experienced with thousands of flight hours. This takes the potential of omission of a task, in the correct sequence, out of the equation. In contrast to operator error or mechanical failure on terra firma, mistakes and failures in conjunction with flight tend to result in very dangerous, if not catastrophic failure. Throughout my experience, aviators really dorked it up when they deliberately chose not to follow a checklist.

     Though failure to follow through in our daily lives rarely leads to a catastrophic failure, it can certainly have negative effects. It is just plain hard to remember all of the various tasks we need to accomplish, especially when you’re as seasoned as many of our respected pax. Accountability to one another and systems that we set up for accountability, like automated reminders or calendars, help. However, accomplishing our many tasks come right down to just completing them.

     So, Friday’s Q really just came down to completing that which the pax sought to accomplish. After all, those exercises aint’ going to execute themselves.

     To Squirrel – Aye!