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Hey little buddies!<\/b><\/p>\n
I love the wisdom of old Benjamin Franklin.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>He\u2019s one of my favorite heroes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>There\u2019s a whole chapter about him in For You They Signed.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Franklin\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>talked about a lot of important things with such wisdom!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Here are some things he said.<\/span><\/p>\n About planning:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.<\/span><\/p>\n About criticizing others:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n About being careful with our words:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cRemember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Hoo boy, there\u2019s a tough one!<\/span><\/p>\n About taking responsibility:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cHe that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n I encourage you to read about Franklin.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>He got more good things done in his long lifetime than five average men.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Diligence, wisdom and productivity marked his life.<\/span><\/p>\n For more about Benjamin Franklin, listen to Uncle Rick Reads the True Story of Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of My Favorite Heroes \u00a0 Hey little buddies! I love the wisdom of old Benjamin Franklin.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s one of my favorite heroes.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s a whole chapter about him in For You They Signed.\u00a0\u00a0Franklin\u00a0\u00a0talked about a lot of important things with such wisdom!\u00a0\u00a0Here are some things he said. About planning:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2,4,5,6,7],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-lessons","tag-character-concepts","tag-character-stories","tag-helping-parents-raise-kids-of-character","tag-kids-blog","tag-uncle-rick-audio-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}