• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 10/29/2023
  • AO: Coconut Horse
  • QIC: Flintstone
  • FNG's:
  • PAX: Hunchback, Roscoe, JJ, Winehouse, Maybelline, Stroganoff

2 Ruckers & 5 Runners put in miles at the Coconut Horse on Maybelline’s birthday.

Discussion was from McRaven’s Wisdom of the Bullfrog, on the chapter “Always Have a Swim Buddy.”  Basically, we need people in our lives who are going to take the time to listen and know us well enough to know what we need and tell us what we need to hear.  We also need to be that person for others.  A “swim buddy” is basically like a ShieldLock, in F3 parlance.

Swim Buddies/ShieldLocks should

  • Be men of integrity with morals that align
  • Always be available
  • Be willing listeners
  • Have mutual trust, likely as a result of the things they’ve gone through together
  • Share confidence and strength, staying tethered so when one is going through it, he can count on his swim buddy to pull him out
  • Take pride in what they do
  • Live like it matters
  • Be authentic and humble
  • Can and will deliver hard truths (candor)

Grateful for a group that’s willing to invest in each other, and has pushed me to be better than I thought I could be.

Yabba Dabba Doo