Excellence ©1998 NICOLEA
When setting your goals you knew, of course, that you would be encountering some difficulties but that the goals would be worth the effort, or else you never would have set those goals and faced those difficulties. What you wanted was to gain that goal, the whole of it, and that means doing it right.
a) Do you agree that to achieve any goal—but to do so without achieving it with the degree of excellence you most desire—leaves you in a position of not fully mastering your goal?
b) What would it be like to be able to do your best in the best manner possible, and to bring that spirit, or sense of excellence into other aspects of your life?
c) In what area of your life would it be most significant for you to achieve this thing we are calling excellence?
d) Is it possible that if you were to take this workbook as a personal challenge, you could surface an aspect of your problem which otherwise you might have ignored?
e) What does it mean if you have been able to achieve success in what you do but have not achieved it with excellence? Do these goals which you have pursued require you to ignore your higher goals and settle for less? In what way(s)?
f) Is it possible that your successes have nothing to do with your achieving excellence? What does that mean?
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.