Give it to a Busy Man (Stronghold)

Twenty seven Pax, took the Daily Red Pill (DRP) this morning and got better.

The Pax: FNG (no more) Almond Joy, Snickers, T-Bone, Aruba, Jeter, Waldorf, Pie (or is it Pi), Beano, Sparky, Neo, Flying tomato,  Bluegrass, Josey, Quattro, FroYo, Roadhouse, T-Mac, McFly, Smash, Rafiki, Squeegee, Chitwood, Snaphook, Schlitz, and Meat sweats (Q’s: Squirrel & CPT D)

The Scene: Partly cloudy, mid-30s, winds out of the NE.  Pretty nice for Thanksgiving

WarmUp:  SSH, Abe Vigoda’s, Grass getters 

The Thang:  Let’s Get Physical

Song 1 – “Flower” – Moby (Bring Sally Up) 3:26

• Squats, follow the words up & down

Song 2 – “Jessie’s Girl” – Rick Springfield 3:14

• American Hammers, Big Boy Situps when you hear “Jessie” (28 Big Boys)

Song 3 – “Walk This Way” – Aerosmith 3:40

• Pax forms a line and lunge walks in unison.  Last pax does 5 burpees and runs to front

Song 4 – “Tubthumping” – Chumbawamba 4:38

• Burpees every time you hear “I get knocked down, but I get up again”

Song 5 – “Thunderstruck” – AC/DC 4:52

• Merkin every time you hear Thunderstruck

Song 6 – “Shock the Monkey” – Peter Gabriel 3:57

• Hold your ankles and then do Monkey humpers every time you hear shock or monkey

Song 7 – “My Bicycle” – Queen 3:08

• Freddy Mercury’s

Song 8 – “867-5309/Jenny” – Tommy Tutone 3:45

• SSHs, Burpees each time you hear “867-5309”

Song 9 – “Stairway to Heaven” – Led Zepplin 8:00

• Bear crawl to cone > Bear crawl to cone > 5 Heels to Heaven > Bear crawl back > rinse & repeato

Prayer requests / Announcements:

1. Prayers for Roadhouse’s M & mother-in-law as the family grieves the loss of their dad/husband.
2. Prayers for all those traveling today both to and from Pinehurst
3. Prayers for Josey that He wakes up to lead his annual Q
4. Prayers of Thanksgiving today for the grace, which we do not deserve, and yet you give each of us.  

 

1. Piranha’s 1st CSAUP planned for 1 January
2. 3 Dec CPR at Bownson…for a one-one special session DM Bluegrass, Prayers for Sparky as medical results come in
3. Mentorship fellowship at Shadowlawn 12 Dec, 
4. THE F3 Christmas Party – Mark your calendars and tell your M & promise her you won’t chat about F3 the WHOLE time!  Date 7 Jan, 5-9pm.

 

Josey led us out in prayer

 

MOLESKINE:  If you wanna get something done

I heard an old teammate quote Steven Covey, “If you wanna get something done, give it to a busy man.”  He continued, “Guys like us are busy, we have several irons in the fire.”  He was spot on.

…always make time for your M

 

For me, once upon a time (maybe as late as last week), my M figured out if I was bored I would shake up all the irons in the fire and get busy.  As High Impact Men (HIM) we often want to be busy and stay busy.  We need to accomplish the mission or get the small victories to show movement.  

Here’s the catch, and I am re-learning this.  There does come a tipping point.  The line between transitioning from one task to another smoothly versus frantic obsessiveness is a razor’s edge.  When I’ve dipped into my frenetic operational mode I’m like a Tasmanian devil; zooming around, post-it notes flying, giving orders, and leaving the place/task in a state of 80% completion rather than done. 

Take this lesson to heart – be present to what you’re doing, be fluid in your movement in accomplishing the task(s) and finish strong.

 

Let’s look at the other side of this story.  The side where the dude is just sitting around that same fire, with the same number of irons in it.  He’s just sitting there watching the fire die down, content to watch the embers fade and the fire extinguish.  The technical term is Anhedonia.  Basically you’ve lost interest in things that used to be enjoyable.  I used to call these people toolbags.  I say I used to, because I lacked empathy for them.  Now I feel a need to go back, pick up the six, motivate them so they get their mojo back.

Whether you are aimlessly running at warp speed to get things done just to move on to the next thing or moving through work like a passionless sloth the question is the same.  Am I fulfilling my best self?

Here’s a method I’ve used to stop rattling ALL the irons in the fire.  I take a piece of scrap paper and write my daily tasks on it.  This focus’ me to pick up one iron, not all of them, to manage the tasks smoothly.   Do it. On. Paper.  For me, putting it in digital form the tasks are likely to get passed by.  But if I write it on paper, I’ll do it that day, or I have to put it at the top of the list the next day.  Yep, put those undone tasks at the top of the next day because we all put the crappy things at the bottom of the list don’t we?

There are times we need to watch the fire rather than shaking all the irons.  Relish these times.  Time is THE finite thing in life we can’t get back.  The question is how are you going to spend it?   Transitioning smoothly from one task to another or at  a frenetic pace?

 

The decision is yours.

Aye!