Hey Spartans, Brian Shontosh back with you on Spartan Stand, and today I want to talk to you about being on time and prepared.

We've all heard that saying that says if you're not early you're late and if you're

late don't even show up and I understand that the spirit of that and it's and it's

wonderful it guides me but what happens is it's creating a pattern that you're not even aware of that you're doing

with that on the top of your mind. So let's just chew on this for a minute and I want to talk about

formations that we used to have

in the Marine Corps.

And it was formations were a moment in the morning

or in the evening to pull all the men together

to take accountability, to pass some word word to tell them what's expected of

them or just even make sure that they're ready for their next task at hand.

And the skipper would say, hey, formation at 8 o'clock.

And then the first sergeant would say, hey gunny we're going to have

formation at 745 and then the gunny would say hey men we're going to have

formation at 730 and it's kind of where the whole gunny time came in and it was always about hey let's show up early

so that we can get prepared to do what we need to do so that when the skipper shows up

we're ready we're ready to receive or we're ready to take action and whatnot and and that's

beautiful what's missing is that prepared piece because what all the men

here are we got formation at 730.

And they're conditioned to say, well,

when we get there at 730, we'll have time

to figure out what we need to do.

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