Reflecting on Your Goal ©1998 NICOLEA
J.W. Waterhouse, Psyche Entering Cupid's Garden
1904: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
As you reflect on the steps or start performing these steps necessary for the accomplishment of your goal, pay special attention to all of your mind's wandering and any procrastination. Note in your Journal when and at what step this occurs, and also be especially aware of the following:
Tension: Where and when does this occur?
Day dreams: When do they occur and what are their motifs?
Anger: when and at whom? What was the event that triggered it?
Voices that stall: What do they say and who do they remind you of?
Actions to sabotage: who is doing it, how is it accomplished, and what are the effects on you?
Success: After the goal is accomplished or failed , how do you feel? What thoughts go through your mind? Has this ever happened before?
Please reflect and review your account of each step and see if you can add any more detail.
a) Now, please take some time to reflect on your successes and consider the ways you achieved what you did and with whom you associated. In what ways could they have been more meaningful for you? In what way could those successes have been more challenging to you?
b) What would you have needed to change to have made those experiences more significant to you?
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.