Sounds like it was a success to me and just needs a little tweaking for effectiveness next time. What I learned from my Holy Week fast is maybe to go into it without a time goal but a results goal. Did we learn what we needed? Did God complete his work in us for however long that took?

Echo showing commitment to your folks through early/late and fan of the daily stand-up. I practice this now with my area managers and did as a Capt leading the airfield pavement eval team (13-15 folks). It helped us track tactical actions to make progress, sync on goals/values, and provided time to read some type of professional development to inspire. Currently I’m challenging my guys with physical, mental, & spiritual health so once a week I pick one of those areas and ask what they are doing to take care of themselves in that arena.

I’m planning on fasting the 3 days from Maundy Thursday through Holy Saturday and break on Easter. I’ve been experimenting more with fasting over the last 6-9 months with day and weekend water only, Daniel fast for 40 days and other versions of no alcohol and very limited sugars. I’ve learned a lot but also know that the weekend fast was rough on my frame and 3 days is going to be tough. Good episode on fasting in the Nat Geo series Limitless with Chris Hemsworth and cool segment on Ethiopian Christians that do some type of fast I think it was 240 days out of the year.