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Midweek Reflections on Virtues: Self-discipline

ʻIdál (Justice), 11 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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PROMPT January 29

Everyone did a great job with filling the war chest yesterday! There's so many great prompts and I'm sure Em will love every one of them.

Since today *is* War Chest Wednesday, I'm going to grab one.

What is your favorite virtue? Give a few examples like kindness, cleanliness, tact, truth, generosity. Is your favorite one you possess, or one you simply admire in other people? Do you have a strategy to develop it yourself?

Prompt is courtesy of Kåre Enga in Montana

https://virtuesproject.com/#

52 Virtues

52 virtues
52 weeks in the year
52 reasons to bring myself to account.

assertiveness, caring, cleanliness, commitment, compassion, confidence, consideration, cooperation, courage, courtesy, creativity, detachment, determination, diligence, enthusiasm, excellence, flexibility, forgiveness, friendliness, generosity, gentleness, helpfulness, honesty, honor, humility, idealism, integrity, joyfulness, justice, kindness, love, loyalty, moderation, modesty, orderliness, patience, peacefulness, perseverance, purposefulness, reliability, respect, responsibility, self-discipline, service, tact, thankfulness, tolerance, trust, trustworthiness, truthfulness, understanding, unity.

Today is the first day
         of the rest of my life.

Today is the day
         to bring myself to account.

Today is the day
         I must make better then yesterday.

Today is the day
         to deliberately practice one virtue.

Self-Discipline

For the past three or four days I've been practicing self-discipline. This wasn't a conscious choice, in this case it has more to do with earning 500 extra points on Survey Junkie. The conscious choice was to attempt to complete three survey a day from Monday, January 27, through Sunday, February 2. In order to complete three surveys a day I have to be both tenacious and self-disciplined.