A Modification of the 13 Virtues as Described by Benjamin Franklin
- Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Eat no processed sugar. Sleep 7 hours. Exercise 30 minutes.
- 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 & Courage: 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: Loose no time; be always employ’d 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 by omitting the benefits that are your duty.
- Thinking & Writing: Spend daily time reading and observing. Then write your thinking.
- Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
- Tranquility: 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, Love, & Outreach: Do something good for two people per day. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
One virtue is reviewed every day for a week in the Daily Strategies. Then, the next week, the next virtue is covered.