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The Little Book of Days: A Daily Planning Guide Based Upon Benjamin Franklin's Virtue Journal
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About The Little Book Of Days: A Daily Planning Guide
This little book is a daily planner based on the one mentioned in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. Its goal is to help you order your day to achieve the highest degree of industry, justice (for justice means right ordering), and peace (which follows justice). It will not do this spontaneously however, and even Benjamin Franklin admitted that he usually failed to order his day ideally due to the unpredictability of his life. But it can help. The layout is simple and straightforward, helpful and conformable to your needs, and includes a short guide to get you off your feet. Includes enough pages for half of a year (26 weeks). Since the daily planning sheets are not tied to any particular date, month, or year you can start using it whenever you like (unlike most yearly planners). From the Introduction: This book is chiefly the manifestation of the author's own lack of order, a virtue that it so often wanting in our times. As a remedy I tried many things such as lists, goals, or (most often) memory, but these were found to lack consistency and constancy. It was then that I recalled Benjamin Franklin's little virtue book as contained in his Autobiography. This book, which he created on his own printing presses, contained a small chart by which he could track his daily infractions of thirteen different virtues in hopes of achieving moral perfection (a goal which, as you might guess, he failed to achieve).....To assist his achievement of Order he created a simple chart by which to outline the business of the day, which he discusses in these lines: "The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, my little book contain'd the following scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day.'' He then proceeds to present a simple chart whereby he splits the day into twenty-four hours, four time periods, and two questions....
