The Kickoff

Written By Trevor Hightower

Purpose of Kickoff:  A kickoff session to review Life Capitals and define Baseline and Personalized Habits for each Life Capital.

What we’ll do: 

  • Define your Talents (how you are uniquely gifted)

  • Define your Replenishment Cycle (activities you do to “fill your bucket”) 

  • Define your Via Negativa: The one habit that if stop builds up each Life Capital

  • Define your Routines (morning, start/end workday, evening)

  • Commit to the Baseline Habits for each Life Capital

  • Define and Commit to the Personalized Habits for each Life Capital

  • Habit Environment Creation:  Obvious, Attractive, Easy, Satisfying. 

Define your Talents:

One quick vernacular is “showing up”. It really is stewardship. You are given these strengths.  You need to steward them. You don’t want to bury your talents. Be resolved. Don’t give up your seat. We will define 5 key talents that are your superpowers. 

Define your Replenishment Cycle:

Life is Integrated: Here is the deal,  if we have a deficit in one domain of life it more than likely is impacting all the others. On the flip side, we get momentum in one area of life, it gives us fuel in the other areas. It is important to know this as we think about what fuels us. 

Exercise: Do a quick audit of how you are doing in these domains. Give yourself a score and write down some thoughts.  (Mental, Emotional, Relational, Physical, Spiritual) (1-10). 

Mental: _______________

Emotional: : _______________

Relational: : _______________

Physical: : _______________

Spiritual: : _______________

What fills your bucket, or refuels you in any of the MERPS categories. Via Negative is the one activity, that if you cut out, it fills up your bucket across domains. 

Define your Routines (morning, start/end workday, evening)

Life Capitals

  • What are Life Capitals?  Six investable assets we have in our possession. 

  • Why Measure? We can’t manage what we don’t measure. 

  • Categories? Areas within each capital we desire to increase in knowledge over time. See modules. 

  • Baseline Habits? The Daily “1-foot bar” we commit to clear each day in each capital.

  • Personalized  Habit Examples? The Daily Habit, personalized to each individual.

Commit to the Baseline Habits 

Time Capital Stewarding your greatest resource

  • Measure: Daily, Weekly, Yearly Time Allocation (Calendar)

  • Categories: Planning, Productivity, Visioning

  • Baseline Habit: Daily Routines 

    • Current Process: ______________________

    • New Process: _______________________

    • Tools and Plan : ______________________

  • Personalized Habit Example: Daily + Weekly Planning.

  • Personalized Habit: ____________________________

  • Tools and Plan :______________________

Financial Capital Stewarding your financial assets.

  • Measure: Total value of financial assets (businesses, real estate, stocks, bonds) less liabilities.

  • Categories: Budgeting, Accounting, Real Estate,  Stock Investesting, Business Creation,.

  • Baseline Habit: Bookkeeping. Track all Debits and Credits Daily. 

    • Current Process: ______________________

    • New Process:_________________________

    • Tools and Plan: ______________________

  • Personalized Habit Example: Make Set Investments Daily/Monthly.

    • Personalized Habit: ______________________

    • Tools and Plan : ______________________

Intellectual Capital Knowledge and Creativity.

  • Measure: The planning, knowledge, and creativity that we are able to apply across all Capitals. 

  • Categories: Planning. Spiritual, Relational, Physical, Financial.

  • Baseline Habit:  Learn for 30 min daily. 

    • Current Process: ______________________

    • Tools and Plan: ______________________

  • Personalized Example: Classes weekly. 

    • Personalized Habit: ______________________

    • Tools and Plan : ____________________

Physical Capital Time and Energy.  

  • Measure: Energy levels. Health metrics (sleep, body fat).

  • Categories: Sleep, Nutrition, Mobility, Fitness, Fasting Data and Technology.

  • Baseline Habit: Nutrition and Fitness Daily Routine.Commit to Replenishment Cycle. 

    • Current Process: ______________________

    • Tools and Plan: ______________________

  • Personalized Example: Sleep routine, Fasting, Metrics (whoop band). 

    • Personalized Habit:______________________

    • Tools and Plan: ______________________

Relational Capital Quality and Depth.

  • Measure: Quality/depth w/most important relationships.

  • Categories: Jesus, wife, children, parents, business partners, friends, employees.

  • Baseline Habit: Relational Plan defined for wife/babe/fox (same person).  

    • Current Plan: ______________________

    • New Plan: ______________________

  • Personalized  Example: relationship plan for children, business partners, friends, employees. 

    • Personalized Habit: ______________________

    • Tools and Plan: _______________________________

Spiritual Capital Wisdom and Power. 

  • Measure: Peace, Contentment and satisfaction. 

  • Categories: Scripture Reading, Prayer, Meditation, Worship 

  • Compound Interest: The increase of peace, contentment, wisdom, and power over time.

  • Baseline Habit: Daily reading of scripture 

    • Current Process: ______________________

    • Tools and Plan:______________________

  • Personalized  Example: Daily Practice of  Prayer. Worship Plan 

    • Personalized Habit:______________________

    • Tools and Plan: _______________________________

Via Negativa

The one habit we stop that when eliminated builds into multiple Capitals. (examples: stopping drinking, stopping social media on phone, )

Habit Environment Creation:  Obvious, Attractive, Easy, Satisfying. 


Trevor Hightower
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