Tipping point = where to start? http://km2000.us/en/bfranklin13virtures.html This is my defination of the word "tipping point": We see lot of problems in our life or bad habbits that we are facing to conqure. But we dont know where to start, maybe they are too many. B. Franklin invented a way 300 years ago:
This is my defination of the word "tipping point": We see lot of problems in
our life or bad habbits that we are facing to conqure. But we dont know where to
start, maybe they are too many. B. Franklin invented a way 300 years ago:
Quotes:
My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these 13 virtues, I judg'd
it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once,
but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that,
then to proceed to another, and so on.
13 virtues:
- Temperance
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
- Silence
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling
conversation.
- Order
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your
business have its time.
- Resolution
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you
resolve.
- Frugality
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself, i.e., waste
nothing.
- Industry
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all
unnecessary actions.
- Sincerity.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you
speak, speak accordingly.
- Justice
Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your
duty.
- Moderation
Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they
deserve.
- Cleanliness
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
- Tranquillity
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
- Chastity
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness,
weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or
reputation.
- Humility
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
I made a form, listing each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red ink,
so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column
with a letter for the day. I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines,
marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues,
on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark, by a little black spot,
every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that
virtue upon that day.
Form of the Pages
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