So I’m reading, among many books, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson. It’s quite good. Reading about Franklin was a goal of mine as I’m trying to be a more optimized version of myself. I’m running on Windows 95 these days and need a system reboot.
In my journal, of which I write one-and-a-half to two pages in the morning as a mind dump and one page at night as a log book to detail the day’s accomplishments, I’m working on the Franklin’s thirteen virtues. I won’t write them down here, but you can easily click through and find out what they are.
By my nature, I’m messy and kind of a slob. Just look at that coffee table in the picture above. That’s basically my brain if my brain were a coffee table. Naturally I gave myself a red flag for “Order” on that day’s Franklinian Report Card.
Anyway, I’m not getting any younger, and neither are you. So it’s high time we seize what little time we have left and do good work. And I don’t know about you, but I love reading about morning routines and daily rituals. So here’s Austin Kleon’s. And mine:
