Life Capsule 2.2 Takeoff - Define Your Lift
Stage 2.2 Takeoff - Define Your Lift
Mission Outcome
By the end of Takeoff, you will have a more concrete grasp on your work & vocation history, a functional resume draft, and a visual map of your previous trajectory.
Estimated Steady Voyager Time:
90 - 120 minutes
Record your start time in the Mission Time Log.
You’re about to fly on a long and treacherous journey across land and sea - if you were a passenger, what would you want your pilot to know? Governmental regulation requires pilots to meet specific standards before entering an aircraft. 14 CFR 91.103 states that a pilot must “become familiar with all available information concerning that flight.” This includes weather conditions, fuel requirements, alternate routes, potential delays, runway lengths, and more. How well do you know the conditions surrounding your own work patterns and history? When you can identify what drives you, where you perform best, and when your energy drops, you are better equipped to navigate what lies ahead—and that awareness becomes the basis of your freedom, not just your safety.
But awareness alone isn’t enough. Once you’re seated in the cockpit, knowing the conditions won’t maneuver the aircraft if you don’t know how to operate the controls. Think across your education, every role you’ve held, and the skills you’ve developed along the way. These are your instruments—and before takeoff, they need to be understood and calibrated. This is your edge, your lift. Lift is what allows you to rise above past conditions, default choices, and inherited or external expectations, so that you can fly according to purpose and not pressure.
Through the Define Your Lift process, you will have translated your work history and education into a clear, connected sequence. You will identify the skills that carry across roles, recognize patterns in your decisions, and distinguish where you’ve acted with intention versus reaction. Most importantly, you will begin shaping a grounded, usable explanation of what you know and what you can do, turning scattered experience into calibrated instruments that generate lift and prepare you for the direction ahead. That explanation becomes a freedom tool that lets you step into conversations, opportunities, and transitions with clarity about who you are and where you’re going.
By the end of Takeoff, you’ll have a coherent view of your education and career, a functional résumé draft, and at least one visual map of your work and vocation. In the next step, you’ll begin the process of documenting your work history in ways that go beyond a list of roles and responsibilities creatively jammed into one or two pages.
Step 1. Mission Console: Curriculum Vitae Build
The Latin phrase ‘curriculum vitae’ means “course of life” or “the race of life” - a running, course, or career and stems from the root ‘currere’ or ‘to run’. The possessive form of ‘vita’, meaning life, is ‘vitae’ thus the phrase means ‘course of one’s life.
Chances are you’ve had a few iterations of your resume whether it’s crafting one for every job role or simply updating it at different intervals. A career advisor once told me, “No matter how much you love your job, even if you never want to leave, it’s always best practice to keep your resume updated”.
Mission Console Sources
1. Go to Add Sources and upload all recent iterations of your resume. How far back you go is up to you. After you add a source make sure you see it selected in the Source navigation pane.
1a. If there is any education not listed on your resume make sure to upload and import a description of that now. Option: type into Notes section and add to Sources.
2. If you are on LinkedIn (recommended), go to your profile and select the three dots to ‘save to PDF’. Upload the PDF in Sources and select Import.
3. Next add the websites for several organizations that hold industry standards in resume writing to Sources, then select Import.
- https://parwcc.com/fundamentals-of-resume-writing/
- https://thenrwa.org/ResumeWriting101
- https://www.resumewritingacademy.com/home
3. Paste the following prompt in the chat:
Based on the sources I’ve added and the theme of this notebook, please provide recommendations for sites/apps providing Resume and LinkedIn optimization. Explain your reasoning behind the sources and provide citations for each.
4. Once the answer is generated select ‘Save to note’ so you can find resources for iterating your resume and LinkedIn either now or post-capsule.
Step 2. Studio: Flashcards
Sometimes there’s inventions that get upgrades but essentially they’re still the same brilliance as they were in the beginning. Flashcards are kind of like that. Depending on your learning style of course, they can be an effective way to improve your ability to more readily share the details of your career. This is an opportunity not to routinely recite the facts but to notice what from your repertoire feels most aligned with your future goals. If you want to throw in some fun facts add the following to your Sources first.
- Resume Best Practices: Adding Metrics That Matter
- ATS Resume Optimization in 2026
- Agency Guidance on the Two Page Limit
- Resume Action Verbs for 2026
- The Death of the Resume
- The Ultimate 2026 ATS Optimization Guide
1. Go to Add Sources and copy/paste the links above then Import.
2. Go to Studio and select the arrow in the Flashcards button (do not select the button itself).
3. In the customize pop up choose your levels.
4. In the customize pop up select sources > deselect all > then select the specific sources you want the AI tool to pull from.
5. Paste the following prompt:
Please make flashcards for my curriculum vitae review so that I can quickly recall -
What: the places I've worked
What: my education
When: the timeframes for each
How: what I did there. Then make a lightning round set with harder, open-ended questions (e.g. “What skill created the most lift in this role?”)
Then make a pilot checkride set that asks me to connect two roles and name the skill that carried over between them.
6. Select Generate.
7. Enjoy later or now, it’s up to you, just keep an eye on your time and your target speed.
Step 3. Mission Console: Skills Repertoire Report
Your mission console is not just another place to upload your curriculum vitae or resume, it’s a career & calling portfolio to house the most important artifacts of your work, values, and growth - not only resumes and recommendations. Start with what you have on hand today and add to your collection on a regular cadence.
1. Go to Add Sources and upload any other central or ancillary career related documents such as certificates, additional education documentation, letters of recommendation, career assessments, and any strength tests you find relevant.
2. Add the websites for skills generators that can help you create a skills based, also known as functional, curriculum vitae - that is organized by and tailored to - your skills set. Add to Sources and then Import. Skills Based Resume Builders:
3. Go to Studio and select the arrow in the Report button (do not select the button itself).
4. Select Create Your Own and choose your language.
5. Paste the following prompt in the chat:
4. Select Generate, pause for it to load, then review.
Step 4. Studio: Work & Vocation Mind Map
Sometimes, looking at the same thing but from a different angle can give us a fresh perspective. Try a Mind Map with your career and see what lift, patterns, or connections it reveals.
1. Select the arrow on the Mind Map button (don’t select the button itself).
2. Select Sources - deselect all Sources - then select only the Sources that provide information about your career and education specifically.
3. Paste either one of the following prompts:
Prompt 1
Create a detailed mind map of my education and career history. Organize it chronologically and also highlight key themes, skills developed, major decisions, and turning points. Show connections between education, work experience, and personal growth. Please create a chronological mind map of my education and work history. Please include details and metrics where possible. Highlight key themes, skills, and major decisions or turning points.
Prompt 2
4. Select Generate. Review the mind map and see if any patterns stand out. Ask yourself if you learned anything new.
5. Ask in the chat what skills in your industry or field(s) are missing from your skill set. Ask what skills are present.
Step 5. Zoom Out
You’ve zoomed in with your career experience as well as your work history and education sequence. Now it’s time to zoom out. To draw connections and find additional perspective.
- Choose either your functional resume or your work & vocation mind map and ask yourself the following questions:
- What are the skills that have moved with me across roles?
- In what jobs or seasons of my career have I been more intentional? What about more reactive?
- What jobs or seasons of my career have I been the most energized? What were my interests at the time?
- What kind of work drains me and what creates momentum?
- What patterns are visible across my career profile?
- Share your answers to your Notes and select Import if you’d like it added to your Sources.
Congratulations! You’ve completed Takeoff and your cockpit is no longer an amalgamation of partially defined tools; it’s now an integrated panel that can direct sustained lift in your career and calling. Your resume, skills repertoire, flashcards, and mind map now function like instruments - each one indicating where you have been and what can help you where you want to go. As you take off and fly to the Climb stage, keep an open mind while encouraging retrospection, self-reflection, and avoiding judgement.
Final Step: Mission Time Log
Record your end time in the Mission Time Log.
Checkpoint 2
Participate in this discovery to unlock the next stage:
Optional Post-Capsule Continuation Activities
Here are a few helpful resources that can provide additional support in crafting your resume and preparing for interviews.
AI Resume / LinkedIn Optimizers
Resume and LinkedIn optimizer websites and applications provide recommendations to your resume and LinkedIn that are tailored to your target roles.
ATS Scanners
This type of application can simulate Application Tracking Systems (ATS) and score your resume based on the target job description.
AI Practice Trainers
An AI trainer, such as Yoodli, AI Interview Coach or Big Interview, are known for being useful at providing practice for interviewing skills in real-time in order to receive feedback and guidance. Try out a free tier first and read the terms and conditions carefully before purchasing a plan.
Note: the current pricing or features cannot be independently verified; please check each tool’s website for the latest information.
