Notes
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Benjamin Franklin's schedule is a scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day.
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He created this schedule to achieve the habitude of the Order virtue.
- He expected that this virtue would allow him to have more time for his business and studies.
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_ "Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time."_
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Franklin's schedule:
- 5-7 a.m. Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness! Contrive days' business, take the day's resolution, prosecute the present study and breakfast.
- What good shall I do this day?
- 8-11 a.m. Work.
- 12-1 p.m. Read or overlook accounts and dine.
- 2-5 p.m. Work.
- 6-9 p.m. Put things in their places. Supper. Music or diversion, or conversation. Examination of the day.
- What good have I done today?
- 10 p.m.-4 a.m. Sleep.
- 5-7 a.m. Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness! Contrive days' business, take the day's resolution, prosecute the present study and breakfast.