Five life domains. Three prompts each. The first-pass blueprint of the life, work, and identity you would build if no costume was required — not as fantasy, as the surface from which the actual architecture starts being designed.
Module 01 named the costume. Module 02 declassified the vocabulary. Module 03 sketches what would actually be built if the costume came off and the vocabulary became operable. The sketch is not the architecture. It is the surface from which Phase 1's Integration Document gets composed and Phase 2's adversarial-systems work gets directed. Without it, Phase 2 builds against undefined ground.
This is forward work. Backward audit is complete. Now the question shifts: what would the un-costumed version of this domain actually look like — specifically, in your life, in concrete sentences you can later operate on?
One domain per day, in order. Three prompts each: the sketch (what would this look like un-costumed), the first move (what's the smallest concrete step you can take now), the 12-month projection (where does that move land you a year from now). Save each domain. By Day 5 you have a sketch across all five domains; Days 6–7 are synthesis.
The sketch is not a plan. A plan demands certainty before it allows movement; a sketch is the act of drawing what you can see now so that the next layer of vision becomes available. If you cannot answer a prompt yet, write what you can see and leave the rest open. The sketch deepens as you operate — you will return to refine it for the rest of Phase 1 and into Phase 2.
If the install slips during these seven days, open the recovery manual — the situations are named there.
What you would do for income, meaning, and contribution if the work-costume was off. Not fantasy — what you can already see is buildable from where you are.
You cannot redesign your family of origin — that is history. But you can architect how you operate inside ongoing family relationships now that you see the costume the family system shaped.
What intimate life would actually be if the strategy-costume was off — the wanting plain, the asking direct, the version of you that does not perform for closeness.
What social life would actually be if the curation-costume was off — who you would spend time with by choice, what you would say in groups, where you would stop performing for approval.
What financial architecture you would actually build if the money-prohibition was off — the income, the asking, the keeping, the deploying. Concrete amounts and concrete moves, not affirmations.
As you save each domain, the sketch line appears below. Once all five are filled, this is your first-pass architecture — the surface Phase 1's Integration Document gets composed from.
Save Day 1 to populate.
Save Day 2 to populate.
Save Day 3 to populate.
Save Day 4 to populate.
Save Day 5 to populate.
The page-level work surfaces the sketch. The two assets below push past the surface — into how to keep the sketch from collapsing into either fantasy or rigid plan, and how to operate the first-move in real environments.
Companion text. The sketch-vs-plan distinction (five practical differences). The honest-projection rule that prevents fantasy collapse and rigid-plan collapse. The first-move sizing — small enough to take in 30 days, big enough to compound. Per-domain deeper prompts for the second pass.
Download Field Manual →Roughly twelve minutes of contemplative material. Walks you through the Work and Vocation domain as a deep contemplation. Surfaces the costume's resistance to forward sketching. Lands the principle that you are not waiting for clarity to act — you are acting to produce clarity. Run it while you sketch.
A 7-day install. Days 1–5 sketch one domain each. Days 6–7 synthesize across them.
One domain per day, in order. Three prompts each. Save each domain as you finish. Each entry takes fifteen to twenty-five minutes if done concretely — sketches collapse fast when forced to name specific moves with specific timeframes.
Re-read all five domains in order. Notice the cross-cutting first moves — the ones that show up in multiple domains. Those are the load-bearing moves: a single action that advances the sketch in two or three areas at once.
Look at the sketch map. Module 03 is installed when the sketch reads as something you would actually build — not what you should want, not what would impress someone, but the architecture you would design if no one was watching and no costume was required. That single document is what Phase 1's Integration Document is composed from.
The sketch is not the architecture.
It is the surface from which the architecture starts being designed.