Rules for Decision - A Simplified Guide

"Prove your thoughts have creative power by consciously imaging constantly, and walk on the water. No matter what happens in the course of a day, revise it. Make the day conform to what you want it to be, and you are walking on the water." - Neville Goddard

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• Introduction

• The Foundation

• Step 1: Release Personal Judgment

• Step 2: Reconnect with Your Vision

• Step 3: Handle Moments When You've Already Judged

• Step 4: When You're Too Resistant to Let Go

• Step 5: Open to Being Wrong

• Step 6: Ask for a Different Perspective

• Step 7: Open Your Mind Completely

• Understanding the Deeper Truth

Introduction

You make decisions all day long, often without realizing it. With practice on the decisions you do notice, you'll develop a pattern that helps with all the rest.

Don't get caught up worrying about every single choice you make. Instead, set a clear intention each morning when you wake up. This will guide you through the day. If you feel too much resistance or your commitment feels weak, don't force it. Don't fight against yourself.

The Foundation

Start each day by thinking about what kind of day you want to have.

Tell yourself: "There IS a way for this day to happen exactly as I want it to."

Then try to have that day you envisioned.

Here's how the process works:

Step 1: Release Personal Judgment

Say to yourself: "Today I will make no decisions by myself."

This means you're choosing not to be the sole judge of what to do. But it also means you won't judge the situations that come up requiring your response. When you judge situations first, you've already decided how you should react. This makes it impossible to hear other guidance without confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

This is the main problem: You make up your mind first, THEN ask what you should do. When the guidance you receive doesn't match what you already decided, it feels threatening and makes you angry.

Step 2: Reconnect with Your Vision

Throughout the day, whenever you think of it and have a quiet moment:

Remind yourself again:

• What kind of day you want

• How you want to feel

• What you want to happen

• What you want to experience

Then say: "If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given to me."

These two practices will help you receive guidance without fear, because you won't create internal conflict first.

Step 3: Handle Moments When You've Already Judged

Sometimes you'll catch yourself after you've already formed a judgment. When this happens, any guidance you receive will feel like an attack unless you quickly adjust your mindset to genuinely want an answer that works.

You'll know this has happened if you feel unwilling to sit quietly and ask for guidance. This means you've already decided by yourself and can't see the real question clearly.

When this happens:

• Remember the day you wanted

• Notice that something has occurred that doesn't fit with your vision

• Realize you've asked a question based on your own judgment

• Say: "I have no question. I forgot what to decide."

This cancels out the terms you set and allows the real answer to show you what the question should have been. Try to do this quickly, despite any resistance. Once you're angry, you'll fear getting an answer different from what your version of the question demands.

Step 4: When You're Too Resistant to Let Go

If you're so unwilling to receive guidance that you can't even release your question, start here:

Say: "At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now."

This is obvious and paves the way for the next step.

Step 5: Open to Being Wrong

Since you've admitted you don't like how you feel, the next step is easy:

Say: "And so I hope I have been wrong."

This works against your sense of opposition and reminds you that help isn't being forced on you—it's something you want and need because you don't like how you feel. This small opening is enough to let you continue.

You've reached the turning point when you realize you'll gain something if what you decided isn't correct. Until now, you believed your happiness depended on being right. But now you have enough wisdom to see you'd be better off if you were wrong.

Step 6: Ask for a Different Perspective

This bit of wisdom is enough to take you further. You're not being forced—you simply hope to get something you want.

Say with complete honesty: "I want another way to look at this."

Now you've changed your mind about the day and remembered what you really want. The purpose is no longer hidden by the mistaken belief that you want to be right when you're wrong. You're now ready to ask for what you truly want.

Step 7: Open Your Mind Completely

This final step simply acknowledges that you're not opposed to being helped. It's a statement of openness—not certainty yet, but willingness to be shown:

Say: "Perhaps there is another way to look at this. What can I lose by asking?"

Now you can ask a question that makes sense, so the answer will make sense too. You won't fight against it because you see that it will help you.

Understanding the Deeper Truth

It's clearly easier to have a happy day if you prevent unhappiness from entering at all. But this takes practice with these rules that protect you from fear.

The first rule isn't about coercion—it's simply stating a fact: You never make decisions completely by yourself anyway. The only question is what you choose to make them with. You either ask for help from love/wisdom or from fear/ego. Your choice determines who joins with you and advises you on what to do.

Your day isn't random. It's shaped by what you choose to live it with and how your chosen advisor perceives your happiness. You always ask for advice before deciding anything, whether you realize it or not.

The second rule is also just a fact: You and your advisor must agree on what you want before it can happen. Nothing can be caused without some form of partnership—either with fearful thinking or with divine wisdom.

The day you want, you offer to the world. It will be what you asked for and will strengthen your chosen advisor's influence in the world.

Key insight: It only takes two people who want happiness to promise it to the entire world. It only takes two people who understand they cannot decide alone to guarantee the joy they asked for will be completely shared.

Remember: To oppose divine guidance is to fight against yourself. This guidance only tells you your own true will and speaks for you. In its divinity is your own. All it knows is your knowledge, saved for you so you can fulfill your will through it.

You are not God's enemy. He asks no more than that you call Him "Friend."

How wonderful it is to do your will! That is true freedom. God would not leave His Son without what he has chosen for himself. When you align with divine will, you are not bound—you are free.