Benjamin Franklin Importance Of Resolution

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Ben Franklin, a founding father of one of the most prideful nations, is well known to the eyes of many. People probably think that this person is intelligent, perfect, but Ben Franklin wasn’t like, or close to this on his own. He used a set of virtues to guide his life. Thus, setting the standard for anyone who wants to reach moral perfection. Even though Ben Franklin’s attempt at reaching moral perfection by the use of his thirteen virtues was unsuccessful, it does not mean that I am unable to use resolution to achieve my American Dream. To me, resolution is all about finishing or completing something. In all honesty, I found myself being successful in some ways. To put it differently, there were a occurences when I was able to grasp a slight concept of resolution. For this reason, second thoughts are always in my head. Deciding to ignore …show more content…

To simply, while trying to perform the virtue of resolution, there were issues in order to pursue it. As of right now, I’ve had unsuccessful attempts when it comes to being a completionist. Going into detail, when it come to work, I am usually lazy and choose to constantly procrastinate. By deciding to go through with this, I end up happen to miss or fail assignments. On the other hand, this doesn’t happen commonly, only on rare occasions. Still this is something that does affect me, and I see it as something I must bring up in order for myself to gain attention to it. By putting things first, such as this, I have the ability to counteract this problem. Similarly enough, another reason that is preventing me from reaching moral perfection is how oblivious I could be. When given something to work on, I forget what I am doing. Thus, slows down the way I work. For all these reasons, having these setbacks and problems is the reasons why resolution is not something I cannot do