Examine the centre
Separate what is yours to authorize from what is shared, influenced or outside your control.
LAMBO PUBLISHING · BIG-IDEA APPLIED PHILOSOPHY · LORII MYERS
THE ME
PROJECT
How to Think for Yourself, Choose Deliberately, and Build a Life That Holds Together
A life can work—and still be running on instructions no one has examined.
- Form
- Big-idea applied philosophy
- Manuscript
- 54,900 words · 164 pages
- Structure
- 14 chapters · five parts
- Status
- Author-review master
THE CENTRAL PROPOSITION
A capable life can still be governed from somewhere else.
Habit, role, urgency and borrowed authority can begin deciding before a choice feels like a choice. Self-governance starts by making that hidden authorship examinable.
Design the conditions
Test whether attention, capacity, limits and operating rules can carry the direction you claim to choose.
Read the consequence
Ask what the choice created, permitted, displaced or required—and what must change on the next turn.
DRIVEN INTENTION
Inner authority matters only when it can become chosen direction.
Driven Intention is not certainty, motivation or control. It is the discipline that moves examined judgment into conduct and keeps the result open to evidence.
01 · PERMISSIONAccept that the decision is yours to authorize.02 · DISCERNMENTSelect the direction that survives evidence, duty, cost and consent.03 · ACTIONMake the choice observable in conduct.04 · CONSEQUENCERead what the action created without turning intention into a defence.05 · RESPONSIBILITYRepair, redesign or return with the new evidence intact.
THE READING EXPERIENCE
Five movements from private authority to public consequence.
Nucleus
Locate examined judgment, accurate agency and the authority to authorize, refuse, promise and repair.
Track
Expose the habits, systems, attention, capacity and limits already carrying the life.
Trigger
Interrupt pressure, separate fact from first interpretation and make a deliberate yes.
Trajectory
Turn intention into observable action, evidence, revision, repair and return.
Echo
Measure coherence through the conditions conduct leaves for other people to navigate.
OFFICIAL BLURB
Your life does not need to revolve around you. It should not be built without you.
A life can work—and still be running on instructions no one has examined.
Habits become operating rules. Roles harden into identities. Urgency disguises itself as importance. Other people's expectations acquire your voice. The danger is not always failure. It is a capable life built around you, but not deliberately by you.
In The ME Project, Lorii Myers presents a practical philosophy of self-governance: reclaim the centre without making the self supreme. Her signature discipline, Driven Intention, converts inner authority into chosen direction. Permission opens the gate. Discernment tests the direction. Action makes the choice visible. Responsibility measures what it leaves others to carry.
This is not a promise of total control, perfect certainty, or a finished self. It is a method for examining what governs you, choosing what deserves to continue, and returning honestly when evidence requires revision.
Begin with yourself.
Do not end there.
SYNOPSIS
What is directing the life already underway?
A life can work—and still be running on instructions no one has examined.
The ME Project asks what is directing the life already underway. Habits become rules, roles become identities, urgency overrides judgment, and expectations inherited from families, institutions, relationships, and earlier selves begin to sound like truth.
Lorii Myers builds a practical philosophy of self-governance from a simple image: a nucleus inside a track that becomes a spiral. The nucleus is the examinable self—the part able to authorize, refuse, promise, and repair. The track contains real conditions: obligations, relationships, systems, limits, and consequences. A trigger creates a trajectory; every trajectory leaves an echo and returns as evidence.
At the centre is Driven Intention—the disciplined conversion of inner authority into chosen direction. Permission opens the gate. Discernment tests the direction. Action makes the choice observable. Responsibility governs what follows.
Across five movements—Nucleus, Track, Trigger, Trajectory, and Echo—the book reveals how to uncover inherited operating rules, interrupt automatic reactions, make commitments that can be carried, and use consequence to guide repair and revision. It also confronts the limits of personal power: expertise, consent, unequal conditions, irreversible effects, and the agency of others.
Ultimately, self-governance extends beyond the self. Our conduct becomes part of the conditions other people must navigate.
This is not a promise of total control or a finished self. It is a method of return.
Begin with yourself. Do not end there.
OPENING SAMPLE
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Introduction + Chapter 1 when present; otherwise Chapters 1 + 2. The full manuscript remains private and under the rights holder's control.
Register InterestTHE FINAL PROVOCATION
Begin with yourself. Do not end there.
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