Go Ask Ben

I believe that people by nature are "future facing". This simply means that we look forward to the future, wonder what it'll be like, how we will live, and what will be different.  When we're not future facing, that should warn us of a problem. It means that we have to run the diagnostics on our life to see what's wrong and get help if we need it.

"Strength, even pushed to the breaking limit, becomes stronger." - M.P. Potter

Sometimes the source of trouble in life is us.

I have found three important reasons to journal and I'd like to share them with you. Journaling creates space for thinking -- everyone needs to process the day's inputs and outputs. Journaling helps create an anchor for your memories and what you learn. You can have more insight about your life and it can be captured. Journaling is an instructor as few of us have a mentor or counselor. How fast you grow depends on the amount of learning from mistakes and problems you can solve.

An amazing man whom I respect wrote this post: "I’m NOT a doctor or a scientist.  But I have an opinion. As a Christian, I believe God Almighty created our immune system to protect us.  But it can’t do it’s job unless it’s exposed to viruses like #covid19.  I think in the near future, they’ll discover that masks were NOT helpful (except at a higher risk).  That it would have been better to get exposed, get over it, get exposed, get over it, for 5-7 times and then you’ll have immunity Here is my response: I understand the logic, your faith position and agree with most of it.  Not everyone has a good immune system at all times. If we could somehow quantify the level of each person's immunity, we could face COVID and live differently.  There is a fine line between faith and presumption. We live by faith and not by sight. We also don't put God (or ourselves) to a foolish test. We protect ourselves to the best ability and trust God for his help.  There is always two sides, two

Life is both a series of choices and opportunities. This is why it is so hard to answer the question, "where do you see yourself in five years?" The question itself is flawed. A better question is, "what goals have you set for yourself that you want in the next five years?" Some will ask, "how can I set five year goals?" The easy answer is, what do you want that will take more time to achieve? One of Ben Franklin's 13 Virtues was Resolution. "Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve." - Ben Franklin Goal setting is as much planning as it is having the character to "perform without fail what you resolve." Persuing goals, both big and small, was Ben Franklin's legacy and it took him a lifetime to achieve them.  We should know where we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years because we have set meaningful goals. If you don't, then you'll never know where you're going.