The Citizenship merit has long been a required merit all the advancement toward GMA.  It was a AR merit but now it’s a ER merit.  Although this merit doesn’t have the excitement of the canoeing merit, or the tangible skill set of the automotive mechanic merit, you can never be fully prepared to launch into [...]

Last One Of These In The Woods If your childhood was anything like mine, the outdoors was my playground, and indoors was my dungeon.  Sure, if the weather was bad, we may have covered all the furniture in sheets and blankets that would transform the furniture into a starship, but it was the outdoors that [...]

Invest No Time, Get Smarter & More Creative One of the best ways to become smarter and more creative is by putting more stuff in your brain, and one of the best ways to get more stuff in your brain is to listen better and read more.  Ray Edwards says, “Creativity does not happen in [...]

U-Pick Strawberries One of my favorite childhood memories was climbing into my grandma’s 1970, cherry red, Ford Falcon Futura and heading down to the u-pick strawberry fields of Polk County.  My brother and I would run up and down the rows for hours looking for those bright red treasures, and many times they never made [...]

Okay, So It’s Boy Lead, How Do You Choose Him? It’s seems obvious to say that good leadership is critical to success.  Look at any historical event, any great discovery, or any epic tale of adventure and you’ll find a great leader.  One of the challenges in Royal Rangers is that the advancement system requires [...]

The First, and Greatest Step Toward WCO To may, World Class Outpost status seem more like a land of make believe that an actual destination.  Personally, I don’t know if any Outpost has accomplished this goal and I am not sure where you find out.  There are WCO seminars happening all over the country.  These [...]

Somewhere along the way some commanders started to say, “they’re in school all day, we don’t want them to be at school in Rangers.”  If the best you can do on Wednesday night is to make Rangers not like school, you may want to reconsider your approach.  That’s just bad messaging and vision casting.  This [...]

Interview with Rob Bennett Outpost 22 in Salem Oregon Children’s | Life Zones | Social Media Pastor Peoples Church From 50 to over 100, what’s the secret? We have certainly had those lean seasons and those bountiful ones as well.  You mentioned that you went through a tough one, looking back did you have one [...]

Can you see 80\20? The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.  I’m sure we have all heard the phrase, 80% of the work is done by 20% of the members, and as it turns out, it’s usually true.  That doesn’t [...]

Start Sweating The Small Stuff We are often taught not to sweat the small stuff.  I think the real lesson trying to be conveyed there is not to measure life’s “stuff” but rather to focus on those meaningful moments and not get caught up in the distractions.  The last several weeks I have been reexamining [...]