AMBITIONS · THE STORY

The last guy you'd expect to talk manifestation.

Hi, I'm Dom. Ambition is my superpower. But someone really smart once told me every superhero has a shadow. The shadow of ambition is getting caught in the story of more, with no purpose behind it.

Tuning into your highest ambition is the most important thing you can do. That's your chief aim. Your primary direction. My purpose is to help you find your true ambition, then use visualization to build a powerful identity around it. The same way Olympic athletes and performers do.

This practice got me an executive position at Shopify, took off 100 pounds and 10 years of biological age, ended 20 years of drinking and smoking, and made me millions. Try it free. It's the most non-woo, action-oriented way to manifest that actually works.

Dom Coryell, founder of AMBITIONS and author of the Daily Growth Map

IF I HAD ONE THING LEFT TO SAY TO THE WORLD

I'm here. And when I say I'm here, I mean all of me.
All my wins, and all my losses.
All my brilliance, and all my dullness.
It's all here. For me, and for you.
Love me or hate me, use me as your mirror.
To find a part of yourself you want to change.
To find a part of me you might want to borrow.
Or as a reminder to connect to yourself as your own source... and find your own true ambition.

Twenty years of trying harder

On paper I was winning: growth systems at Facebook, Instagram, and Shopify. Forbes wrote about me. Off paper: 275 pounds. A drink every night for 20 years. Angry in airport security lines. The kind of guy who takes the recycling out early on Sunday so the neighbors can't count the bottles. My life wasn't failing. It was worse than that. It was just sustainable.

I tried everything you've tried. Diets, every one of them. Ozempic, and the rebound after. Dry Januarys that ended January 19th. Willpower by the bucket. Nothing stuck. Because I kept trying to change what I did while staying who I was.

The night it broke open was embarrassingly ordinary. A Sunday. In bed, beer in hand. And a sentence landed that I'd somehow never said in twenty years: I drink because I can't control my feelings. I laughed out loud. That was the last one. The problem was never alcohol. Alcohol was a tool I was using on a feelings problem, and I finally saw the receipt.

I'll be straight about the messy middle too. I sat with a shaman in Costa Rica, lifelong atheist, and met something I still can't explain. And a month later I was drinking beers on a Saturday morning. The ceremony didn't fix me. The daily practice did. That distinction is the whole product. Around then I found Neville Goddard on a podcast. I was too embarrassed to tell my girlfriend I owned the book. Neville wrote it in 1944. Neuroscience caught up in 2010.

I am the receipt

One practice, one year. Same guy, different identity. These are my actual photos, the same ones on my journal site, dailygrowthmap.com.

Dom Coryell before and after weight loss transformation, from 275 lbs to 175 lbs
20 years of diets failed. Ozempic came back off. The identity stuck.
Dom Coryell transformation from 20 years of nightly drinking to sober
20 years of drinking, done. No AA. No white knuckles. One sentence did it.
Dom Coryell financial transformation, saving his first million dollars
Made plenty for years, kept nothing. Rewrote the money identity. First $1M saved.
Dom Coryell transformation from anger and resentment to forgiveness
Airport-security-line angry. Learned to forgive people, including my parents.
Dom Coryell transformation from social anxiety to comfort without substances
Comfortable in a room full of people without a drink in my hand. That was new.
Dom Coryell career transformation from tech executive to founder
Bigger titles, then my own thing. Built products at scale, then built myself.

I'm in good company

Jim Carrey, who used visualization with his famous $10 million check
Jim Carrey
Broke in 1985, wrote himself a $10M check and felt it nightly on Mulholland. Cashed the identity with Dumb and Dumber.
Kobe Bryant, who built the Black Mamba alter ego identity
Kobe Bryant
Built a second identity - the Black Mamba - to become someone pressure couldn't touch.
Michael Phelps, who visualized every race nightly before swimming it
Michael Phelps
Swam every race in his head each night. He called it the videotape. 23 golds.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who visualized winning Mr. Olympia before it happened
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Saw the Mr. Olympia trophy as already his. Then the movies. Then the governorship.

Whyambition?

Your ambition is a clue. The real one - the Soul Spark- is the best form of energy and purpose you will ever find. If you listen for it, it will come, and it will pull you through life. You'll know because your feelings will show you. That's your intuition doing its job.

Illustration of the soul spark of true ambition versus the shadow of ambition

And if you don't find it, the shadow of ambition finds you. Comparison, FOMO, greed dressed up as drive. In the shadow there will never be enough mores to satiate you. The story of more has no last chapter.

Being out of alignment with your true ambition leads to symptoms - like the numbing, the drinking, the endless scroll.

So pay close attention to your chief aim. Use your feelings to connect to it as if you are already living in the world where it's accomplished. Because when you do, you get to experience every moment.

And to be clear: this is action-oriented manifestation. No crystals, no chanting, no wishing the world were different. You channel the ambition, build a powerful identity around it, and act from that identity until the results are just what happens.

The Night Shift Method

The Night Shift Method combines the best of two critically acclaimed books - Neville Goddard's Feeling is the Secret (1944) and Todd Herman's The Alter Ego Effect - plus everything I learned rebuilding myself.

  • From Neville: feelings are the only language your subconscious speaks, and the five minutes before sleep are when it takes dictation.
  • From Herman: identity beats willpower. Kobe didn't try harder, he built the Black Mamba and let the identity play.
  • The science: neuroscience caught up in 2010. Vividly imagined experience fires much of the same circuitry as lived experience.

Put those three together, at night, and you get the whole method:

STEP 1 · NAME IT (AMBITION LAYER)
Your ambition is your chief aim
Say what you actually want, in your own words. Not the story of more - the real one. Most people never grant themselves permission to do even this.
STEP 2 · BECOME IT (IDENTITY LAYER)
Ask who does that. Build the identity.
Not what to do - who to be. The qualities that make your obstacle irrelevant. Goals fade. Identities stick.
STEP 3 · BELIEVE IT (FEELING LAYER)
Fall asleep inside the feeling
Headphones on, lights off. The track walks you into the identity and hands you one takeaway feeling to carry across the sleep line. That's the program running all night. A memory of the future, installed.

That's it. Three minutes a night.

Most people run from feelings. But feelings are the divine human technology we use to communicate with consciousness - the language of the subconscious.

What you get for a dollar

Prefer paper first? The practice also lives in my physical journal, the Daily Growth Map, on Amazon. A tree gets planted for every book sold.

BUILD YOUR AMBITION - $1
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100% satisfaction guaranteed. Questions: help@buildambition.com

Questions people actually ask

Who is AMBITIONS. for?

High achievers who are not consistent. The person who is excellent at work but keeps postponing their own big plan - the business, the body, the book. You do not lack discipline; you prove that every day for your employer. You lack an identity that makes YOUR plan non-negotiable. AMBITIONS builds that identity nightly with visualization, and the AMBITION Coach keeps it alive daily over text.

Why can't I stick to my big plans?

Because plans live at the behavior layer, and behavior always loses to identity over time. When your self-image is a busy professional who will start soon, every skipped day is in character. Visualization with feeling rewrites the self-image, so acting on your plan becomes what is in character. That is why the greats rehearse identity, not just tactics. Goals fade. Identities stick.

What is AMBITIONS?

AMBITIONS turns your specific ambition into a custom guided visualization for $1. You answer three questions in your own words. About a minute later you get a personal audio track: your name, your ambition, your obstacle dissolved, laid over a 6 Hz binaural beat. Then a free AI coach texts you daily to help you actually use it. It was built by Dom Coryell, a former growth executive at Facebook, Instagram, and Shopify.

Who is Dom Coryell?

Dom Coryell is a tech executive turned founder. He ran growth at Facebook, Instagram, and Shopify and was featured in Forbes. Privately he was 275 lbs, drinking every night for 20 years, and angry. Identity-first visualization practice changed that: he dropped the weight, took 10 years off his biological age, quit drinking and smoking without AA, made millions, and now builds identity-change products under TINKERTOWN LLC, including AMBITIONS and the Daily Growth Map journal.

Is visualization scientific or is this woo-woo?

Both lineages point the same direction. Neville Goddard wrote about assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled in 1944. Neuroscience caught up: vividly imagined experience activates much of the same circuitry as lived experience, and rehearsing an identity with feeling is how athletes and performers prime execution. AMBITIONS uses that mechanism without asking you to believe anything first. Try it for a dollar and judge by how you act the next morning.

What happens after I buy the $1 visualization?

Your track is ready in about a minute. Listen with headphones, because the binaural beat underneath only works in stereo. You also get the AMBITION Coach free: an AI agent that texts you mornings and evenings, locks one daily action with you, reads your dreams and even photos of your handwritten journal, and keeps score. If you want a new visualization every morning, DAILY365 is $14 a month or $59 a year.

Is the AMBITION Coach a real person?

No. The coach is an AI agent, clearly labeled, trained on Dom's method and your own words. It remembers your conversation, your ambition, and your daily actions. Support from actual humans is always available at help@buildambition.com.

How is this different from a meditation app?

Meditation apps sell you a library of generic calm. AMBITIONS builds one track about your specific ambition, with your name in it, aimed at who you have to become to get it. It is closer to what pro athletes do before a game than to a sleep-sounds app. And it comes with a coach that follows up the next morning, which is where most self-improvement quietly dies.

AMBITIONS is a TINKERTOWN LLC product by Dom Coryell. The future you is waiting. Go meet them.

Photos: Ian Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0), Keith Allison (CC BY-SA 2.0), Agência Brasil (CC BY 2.0), Governo do Estado de São Paulo (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Stories are their own public tellings; no endorsement implied.