📣 New Classroom Drop: The Shift Board We built this community for more than quick hits and scrollable posts. The Shift Board is our new classroom space for long-form content — articles written by you, the leaders inside this tribe. It’s where we’ll go deeper on the topics that shape us: leadership, growth, personal development, and the hard-earned lessons that forge real change. This isn’t just another feed. It’s a place to sit down, read, reflect, and wrestle with ideas that matter. First articles drop soon. Bring your voice. Bring your questions. Bring your shift. ✍️ Want to contribute? If you’ve got a story, insight, or framework that could sharpen another man’s leadership — we want it. Drop your draft or idea in the comments below, or DM the team to get featured on The Shift Board. Let’s build something that lasts and is bigger than any one of us!

An email that I subscribe to (James Clear author of Atomic Habits) provided this timely quote the other day… “Work is endless. Exercise is endless. Parenting is endless. Same with marriage, writing, investing, creating, and more. You get to choose the parts of your life, but many of the important things in life cannot be "finished." Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle you can sustain and that allows you to make daily progress on the areas that matter. Embrace the fact that life is continual and look for ways to enjoy the daily practice." So many times I get stuck in a mindset of “oh I can’t wait to have a (fill in the blank)”or “when this is over…” instead of embracing the everyday grind. I need to remind myself that instead of chasing happiness, I must search for contentment in the life that I prayed that I would have years ago. This idea is also in a great book titled Pound the Stone! Hope you all have a great Monday!

Happy Birthday to our newest member, a jack of all trades, commander of none…. @Ian Alcorn

Hey guys! It’s good to be part of this community. I’m a retired firefighter from the Central Valley of California. Amazingly by the grace of God I’ve been blessed with a patient loving and tenacious wife who has stood by me for 36 years. I have 3 grown children and just became a grandfather in September. Looking forward to getting to know you all better.

In a group call this morning we discussed ongoing employee “pizza parties” and how the employees still complain about them. It got me thinking of this saying “Pizza parties are for recognizing weak leaders”. Thoughts?