Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and Founding Father, understood the importance of short-arc goals to his long-arc objectives. In his autobiography, he records a practice that he used in order to help him determine which daily battles needed to be won in order to make effective progress. He asked two questions daily: The Morning Question: What Good shall I do this day? The Evening Question: What Good have I done today? In the morning, he set a course of action that determined how he would engage the day and what specific, small battle he needed to win. In the evening, he examined his
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