Twenty Something | Resolve to write about your journey in the new year

Printer-friendly versionSend to friend Benjamin Franklin was 27 when he dipped his pen in red ink, drew a seven-column, 13-row chart and resolved to master all the moral virtues. It was Sunday and the first day of July. The last of the 13 British colonies to be founded, Georgia, was being settled, and each colony was working out its own system of self government. Young Franklin was ready to look within and devise his own self-governance. He broke down his day -- eight hours of work, seven hours of sleep, a two-hour lunch break -- and dedicated one week to each of the 13 virtues he had identified, beginning with temperance.

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