Seinfeld Tour and the Sifter….

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

The Pax: Squirrel, Scout, Beano, Josey, Samsonite, Meat Sweats, & Sweet Pea

The Scene: Cold.

The Thang:  The birthday boy absolutely refused to do Burpees.  Instead, the pax took a tour of past Seinfeld episodes

• The No-fat yogurt @ the Ice Cream parlor
  • 20 Flying Nuns (Lunge walk while doing arm circles)…cause I needed an exercise that started with F.  *uck this Yogurt is Good!

• The Puffy Shirt
  • YHC couldn’t think of an exercise that started with a P, so I went with Panda….Sprocket’s favorite when he was “in a mood” and the pax did Seal Clap Merkins to 10.  Scout was a real trooper and squatted as his knees are still recovering from his spill.

• The Library @ the Library
  • 20 Get Ups…when the library detective comes to collect on the Tropic of Cancer you forgot to return in High School you’d better get up and hide.

• The Fire @ the fire dept
  • 20 Merkins, cause sometimes you have to push something down

• The Stakeout @ the Police Dept (Art Vandelay)
  • Merkin at every “Roxanne” and a Plank Jack at every ‘red light’ sung

• The Barber @ Dapper barbershop
  • Long slow flutter IC.  Like scissor kicks.

• The Cafe’ @ Broad Street Bakery
  • 20 Knurkins, cause Chuck Norris is a bad man, a very bad man

• Newman @ the Post Office
  • Bring Sally Up (Moby)…which is kinda like the White Whale

• The Stall @ the Parthajohn
  • Air Squared, (People’s chair without the wall) because we can all spare a square

• The Race @ Broad Street
  • Teams of three. First man sits in peoples chair, second man in front of him in plank, third man sprints 100 yards and back, rinse and repeat times three.
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Announcements: 

1. Samsonite is encouraging all y’all to come to the Nativity on Vas’s-Carthage Rd.  Yates-Thagard Baptist Church, Dec 4/5 @ 6-8:30pm
2. Wednesday Mentorship training, led by Meat Sweats.  Start time 0615.
3. Next Thursday, same time as Stronghold we will soft-launch the Gumby AO.  It’s all about stretching and core work.

Prayer Requests: Prayers for all those traveling back from Thanksgivings elsewhere.  God give us grace and peace for today to allow us to shine your light more purely, more easily.

 

MOLESKINE: The Sifter

For those of you who have read “Freed To Lead” you will likely recognize this.  It comes out of chapter eight and is called The Sifter.

I’ll boil it down for ya.  The chapter speaks of the Sad Clown and how many men claim they have good friends…when they really don’t.   They use the Oprah Bomb that their wife is their best friend, which is (a) unfair to your M and (b) a total cop-out.  To quote from the book:

“Put all your buddies in a figurative version of the sifter your mom used to separate flour when you were a boy. Remember how she would dump the flour on top of the ting and shake it like crazy? She was smashing the flour against the side of the sifter so the fine particles would pass through the screen on the bottom.  What was left were the big course particles, those too stubborn to pass through the sieve no matter how hard she shook it.”  

When the world shakes you (lose a job, looking for your purpose, get turned away, health turns South) the small particle friends go right throughout your sifter.  You’re left alone.  Only the big stubborn ones stick around.  

Be honest.  Look at your male friendships.  How many of them are big particles?

I’ve taken this step back, a few times actually.  I’ve got a LOT of big particle friends – you all that are reading this!  It’s the guys who, as you walk to your car after a workout, will pull you to the side and say, “what’s up? You don’t seem yourself.”  Or, the guys you call and ask to help an elderly man clean up his yard….and ten people show up.  You are the men who do these things.  You live third.  

Again, look at your male friendships.  How many of them are big particles? Be honest.  If you don’t like what you’re seeing then I’d suggest you post a bit more.

 

Aye!