Do you shave your balls, son?

Today’s topic at QSource was a PAX generated discussion of lessons learned, but as always, the memorable moments came when we least expected it.

Large gathering of idiots to ruck the Coconut Horse loop @ 0600, with Oompa showing up even earlier.  About a mile in, Whoopee got a text from Dr. Feelgood asking whether it was a run or a ruck today. Shortly thereafter, a car flies by, parks at the Waffle House, and Dr. Feelgood joins in on the fun.  Oompa took off running after a little while.  Sargento carried the torch for the runners, as the only PAX who ran from start to finish.  After Sargento caught the ruckers, Whoopee took off to run, while still toting his ruck.  Dr. Feelgood kept rolling past the COT to get his ruck smothered, covered & chunked.  All in all, lots of curious decision were made between 0530 and 0730.

QSource has been open to the weekly Q’s direction for a number of weeks now, and in preparing for this week, YHC decided to open it up and just give the HIMs of the Coconut Horse the opportunity to share lessons that they’ve learned along the way.  Classic teacher trick of getting a lesson in without having to do much.  YHC did put it out to Slack just to make sure it wouldn’t blindside anyone, and to make sure that it was known that was the plan all along and the Q didn’t just forget to plan something.  As always, the discussion was rich.  Here’s some of what we talked about:

• Decisions are best made from a position of strength, not stress.  Decide in advance, and carry out the plan.
• Don’t base decisions on emotion, as it provides opportunities to mess up your acceleration
• Putting work in in The Gloom allows men the opportunity to make the rest of the day about taking care of their Concentrica
• Stay prepared.  You never know when dark times may come.
• As much as we tend to think otherwise, action comes before motivation, not after.
• Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.  While generally a great piece of advice, it’s also specifically helpful when dealing with the IR.
• The only thing you can control is your attitude and your activity.
• Your only limits are in your head.
• Surround yourself with like minded people.
• The indirect mentoring that happens in F3 keeps us all pushing the rock.  Everyone is constantly watching others and being watched.

And that’s just some of what was discussed.  We all got a little into what brought us to F3 and what keeps us accelerating.  It was cool to hear everyone’s stories.

Hey speaking of stories, you’ll never believe what we talked about out on the Coconut Horse loop.  You should have been there.

Announcements:

• Woody is moving.  More info coming.
• F3 Dads 7/17 @ Gashouse

Prayer Requests:

• Uranus
• Turtleman

Thanks for the discussion this week.  Next time, I’ll have something prepared.

Yabba Dabba Doo