Lesson 0: Choose Your Objective | Lesson 1 of 1
Choose Your Objective
Define one clear objective before you begin. This single desire will be threaded through every exercise in the course.
Most courses begin with theory. This one begins with a decision. Before you read a single lesson about how the law works, you will decide what you are using it for.
"First, you must know exactly what you want."
What this means: This was Neville Goddard’s first instruction, and it is ours too. He placed it before every technique, because a person who is vague about what they want has nothing definite to assume. The whole practice rests on a clearly defined end.
Here is why this matters so much. This course is not a book to be read. It is a training ground. From this page onward, every practice box you meet will point back to the one objective you write today. You will not do twenty-six disconnected exercises. You will run one complete manifestation, step by step, under supervision, from definition to fulfillment. That is the difference between studying swimming and getting in the water.
How to choose well
- Specific beats vague. "I want to be happier" gives your imagination nothing to work with. "I am working as a senior designer at a studio I love" gives it a scene.
- Choose what you actually want, not what you think is realistic. The law does not price desires by difficulty. Realism is a habit of the old state.
- It should matter to you. You will live with this desire for the whole course, including 21 days of nightly practice if you take the Practicum. A lukewarm wish will not hold your attention that long.
- Choose for yourself. Not "I want my brother to change." Your own state is the only thing you directly command. (You will learn how others fit in when you reach EIYPO.)
The four questions
The form below asks four things. Answer them slowly, in your own words. This is the first page of what will, by the end of this course, become your own written record of an inner transformation.
- What do you want? Name it plainly. One desire.
- Why do you want it? Be honest. The why reveals the feeling you are actually after, and the feeling is what you will learn to assume.
- How will life concretely look when it is done? Describe an ordinary day after the desire is fulfilled. What is different at breakfast? Who knows? What do you no longer worry about?
- Write one sentence, in past tense, as if it already happened. For example: "I signed the lease on my apartment by the sea." This sentence becomes your touchstone for the entire course.
A filled example
What: A job as a full-time writer.
Why: I come alive when I write. I want my days to be spent on work that feels like mine.
How life looks: I wake without an alarm clock dread. I write through the morning. My family introduces me as a writer. The old job is a story I tell, not a place I go.
Past-tense sentence: "I was hired as a staff writer, and I still remember the phone call."
When you have saved your objective, continue to the Foundations module. From here on, whenever a lesson says "your objective," it means this. At the very end of the course, in "Your New Story," you will be shown this entry again, next to the person you have become. That comparison is the real certificate of this school.
From the Founder's Journal
"Stop trying to build a car in the 3D. Create the glitch in the 4D, and let the 3D scramble to fix it."