Diagramming Your Goals ©1998 NICOLEA
Circe Invidiosa By John William Waterhouse
Please consider for a moment a goal that you have just completed; or are involved in presently; or will be striving for in the near future. The important criteria to consider is that the goal can be achieved and is personally meaningful to you, not someone else's goal.
a) Please choose this type of goal and put it into words:
Now, consider all the steps necessary to fully accomplish your goal "perfectly". The goal should have:
1) An ideal outcome
2) A start date
3) Steps or stages through which the goal is accomplished
4) Approximate time it will take for each stage
5) Resources necessary for the goal
6) And a completion date.
On the next screen is a diagram which you can use as an aid in "mapping" out the steps of this goal.
May we preserve these philosophical beauties, and exhibit them to others. May this web site expand their elegance by the enlivening rays of the philosophic fire; and by the powerful breath of genius, scatter abroad in this virtual world these latent but copious seeds.
If some sparks of this celestial fire shall animate the reader, consider yourself as well rewarded for this laborious undertaking. Ancient philosophy has been, for centuries, the only study to break the shackles of ignorance; and in which one finds an inexhaustible treasure of intellectual wealth, and a perpetual fountain of wisdom and delight.
Presuming that such a pursuit bestows the highest benefit, I, Webmistress, desire no other reward than the wealth of wisdom, and Reason as my constant Guide. If successful, may I see the praise of the liberal; and if not, I expect no defense for failure, other than the decision of the candid, and discerning few, thus the opportunity to learn, and purgation by philosophic fire.