The week’s task — three SACAs.
A SACA is a Self-Assigned Captain’s Action — you pick it, you own it, you ship it. Each takes 20–30 minutes, and any one completes the week — do all three if you want to go deeper. Open the PDF for the print version; the full text lives here too.
🖨️ Print this week — the one-page Week Runner (PDF)
WEEK 6 · SACA 1
Tithe-First Budget
Giving (10%+) is line one. Everything else is line two onward.
Budgets that put giving last find a way to never get there. Tithe-first puts the kingdom math at the top and forces the rest to fit underneath.
Action checklist
- Pull last month's actual income and outflow.
- Open Claude. Paste totals (no account numbers, no PII).
- Ask for a tithe-first budget:
- Line 1: 10% gross — Kingdom giving
- Line 2: Tax + savings (10% if you can)
- Line 3 onward: Fixed costs
- Line N: Discretionary (last, not first)
- Adjust to fit your actual life. Commit it to paper. Tell your wife.
DON'T OUTSOURCE THIS
If 10% feels impossible, that's the signal — not the verdict. Talk to your wife and a brother before you talk yourself out of it.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Malachi 3:10 — "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse… and thereby put me to the test, says the LORD."
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WEEK 6 · SACA 2
The Values-Run Storehouse
Write what your house stands for — then make the money obey it.
Most budgets fail because they're built on math alone. Write your Family Values first — 3 to 5 short, declarative lines — then run the storehouse against them. Every recurring charge either serves what your house stands for, or it goes.
Action checklist
- Write your 3–5 Family Values with Claude as scribe — short, declarative, yours. Post them where the family sees them.
- List every recurring charge once — bank/card statements, plus Apple and Google subscriptions.
- Set the recurring monthly sweep (Calendar event, or a 'Storehouse sweep' Habitify habit). Each month, paste the list into Claude (names + amounts only, no card numbers): "Judge each charge against these values. Which serves them? Cut one that doesn't."
- Review one value out loud at each Weekly Family Meeting — values reviewed stay alive.
TWO SAILS, ONE RIG
Family Values is the sail; the monthly sweep is how it catches wind. Money follows values — yours, or somebody else's.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Matthew 6:21 — "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." The storehouse is a discipleship document.
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WEEK 6 · SACA 3
Legacy Plan Starter
Will, beneficiaries, instructions to family. AI drafts. Lawyer signs.
If you died this week your family would inherit chaos before they inherited a dollar. Today is the first 80% — what AI can draft. The last 20% is what a lawyer makes real.
Action checklist
- Open Claude. Ask for a Legacy Plan Starter document with sections for:
- Will summary (intent, not legal text)
- Beneficiary check — every major account
- Letter to your wife — practical (passwords, accounts, who to call)
- Letter to each child — what you want them to know
- Funeral preferences
- Fill in your information offline. Do not paste account numbers into AI.
- Book a 30-minute call with an estate attorney to make the will real.
- Tell your wife where the document lives.
THE UNFUNDED TRUST
A trust that exists on paper but holds no assets is a comforting lie. Get the document — then fund it.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Proverbs 13:22 — "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children." Inheritance is documents and follow-through, not just dollars.
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