Circle of Trust

Thank you for joining me this morning men. We don’t wake up for easy. Getting up ITG sucks, working out in the wet slushy snow sucks and 39° Sucks! Embrace The Suck.
“Embrace The Suck” military speak for “The Situation Is Bad, But Deal With It”
It’s a very Buddhist concept. When we deny what reality is giving us, what is really happening, then we create suffering. So life is a dance between minimizing expectations and surrendering to what our lives actually reveal to us.
By embracing our lives totally (even the stuff that “sucks”), we get through them.
The Armed Forces have no other choice. If they’re out in the Iraqi desert or in the mountains of Afghanistan, the only way they’re going to get through those challenging experiences is by embracing (rather than denying or ignoring) them.
But for us with our modern conveniences and propensity for denial, we can distract ourselves, numb ourselves, fool ourselves over and over to avoid, disconnect, ignore, postpone, procrastinate and put our heads in the sand when we don’t want to look at what is.

Early in the growth of F3 Nation, Dredd and OBT developed GrowSchool as a way to teach the men of F3 Nation the principles and skills that helped them inspire a movement that spread across the gloom of America to invigorate male community leadership. Still, they knew something was missing.

They realized how important CSAUP events are to the growth of F3 as an organization, the Regions that men flock to, and even the individual leaders who participate in these Completely Stupid And Utterly Pointless events. They realized that participating in a Rucking CSAUP with the opportunity to immediately apply the skills learned from the F3 GrowSchool solidifies the principles that allow High Impact Men to harden the principles learned in themselves, like iron on a forge.

GrowRuck is a weekend-long event that combines F3 GrowSchool with a Rucking CSAUP event to immediately apply F3 leadership skills. By adding a CSAUP event (which brings a huge dose of 1st and 2nd F) to the GrowSchool experience, F3 Nation aims to catalyze and accelerate a location’s growth and the bonds of brotherhood that form when several regions join together and accomplish a mission.

GrowRucks are ideally suited to F3 locations where they can draw from multiple AOs within driving distance, with the ideal class size being 65-70 participants. Part of the draw for participating in GrowRuck are the connections and 2nd F that forms between regions. That being said, not everyone in an AO or region needs to participate in the Rucking CSAUP event to get something out of GrowRuck, as many of the weekend’s events are open to all PAX. GrowRucks can be coordinated in smaller regions and events can be hosted by individual regions with the right preparation.

Friday night 2ndF Event

Saturday AM workout + GrowSchool

Saturday PM Rucking CSAUP event (12-14 hours)

Sunday AM breakfast

GTE 30 July 15-17

Iron Sharpens Iron

Dear Lord, thank you for the ability to get up, roll out of bed, the courage to make good decisions that make us better. Thank you for the strength of F³ Naperville and F³ Nation’s good cause to make better stronger men and leaders, thank you for the strength of this brotherhood and the strength of the brothers who surround me here this morning. We pray for soldiers deployed over seas with the war in Ukraine, we pray that an end to the situation there happens soon. We pray for Neda Khan that she may get the best treatment and care. We pray for DJ’s mom.
In Jesus’s name we pray 🙏