ABSTRACT
T ime Travel. We would like to start with a metaphor. The metaphor is: Personal goals offer a means of traveling through time. By this we do not exactly mean the science fiction plot device, in which time travel involves “jumping” to the chronological past or future then returning to the chronological present, without “doing the time” in between. Personal goals offer a means of steady forward motion through time, a means of doing the time, such that one arrives at a future place that is to one's liking. By investing and directing one's energy in stable and purposeful ways one may literally create the future, thereby building desirable life structures of one's choosing. We think that this metaphor can help illustrate two important ideas.
