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 7 · SACA 1
Plan Your Sabbath
A 24-hour disconnect protocol. What's in. What's out. Commit on paper.
Sabbath without a plan becomes Saturday plus guilt. Today: build the protocol so the day can actually deliver what it's for.
Action checklist
- Decide and write down:
- Start time (e.g., Saturday 6pm)
- End time (e.g., Sunday 6pm)
- What's IN — worship, family meals, walks, naps, rest
- What's OUT — work email, side projects, AI tools
- Emergency exception — what counts, what doesn't
- Tell your wife and kids the plan. Make it visible.
- First Sabbath this week. Imperfect. Show up anyway.
CAPTAIN'S NOTE
Sabbath isn't earned by a productive week. It's commanded so the captain doesn't become his own god.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Exodus 20:8 — "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."
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WEEK 7 · SACA 2
The Nightly Gratitude Journal
One line of thanks every night — the seventh sail, raised last, flown forever.
The bootcamp ends; this doesn't. One line a night naming what God did today. By Sabbath you have a week of evidence; by next year, a book of it. Gratitude is how a captain rests.
Action checklist
- Set a nightly 9:00 PM automation (Shortcuts → Time of Day → notification: "What's one thing from today you're thankful for?").
- Answer with ONE line — in a single journal note, or a 'Gratitude' Habitify habit. Sixty seconds. No essays.
- Each Sabbath, paste the week into Claude: "Read my week of gratitude back to me. What was God doing?" Thank Him out loud.
- Optional: bring one entry a week to the dinner table or the Family Meeting.
THE SEVENTH SAIL
Raised in the last week because it's the one that keeps the whole rig moving after the bootcamp ends. The 5:25 prayer asks; the 9:00 journal thanks. Ask and thank, every day.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Psalm 92:1–2 — "It is good to give thanks to the LORD… to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night." (A psalm written for the Sabbath.)
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WEEK 7 · SACA 3
Teach One Person One Thing
Walk one brother through one thing you learned. Watch him do it once.
The bootcamp doesn't end until you've handed it off. Multiplication is the test of mastery. Today: pick the brother, pick the thing, do the rep.
Action checklist
- Pick ONE brother — a friend, a man at church, a colleague — who needs this.
- Pick ONE thing you learned in this bootcamp that he can use.
- Schedule a 30-minute walk-through (in person if possible).
- Walk him through it. Watch him do it once. Don't take the keyboard.
- Send him the link to family-captain.html. He starts where you started.
THE GRADUATION
A captain who hoards the playbook isn't a captain. He's a hobbyist. Multiplication is the commission.
SCRIPTURE SIT
2 Timothy 2:2 — "What you have heard from me… entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also."
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