Franklin’s Virtues Franklin was a man who seeks to be the best in all he does. His writing suggest that in every part in life, he continually presses forward in bettering himself. The reasoning behind Franklin’s virtues was to acquire a habit of all these things, which are: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and Humility. He did not attempt to master all of these at once. He took each one and fixed his attention on the most important, to the least. He examined himself on these virtues each day for a week. He kept his virtues very orderly. For my self-improvement project, I followed Benjamin Franklin’s virtues. I chose: silence, order, moderation,
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While trying to focus on only saying encouraging things to my husband, I found out that the days I did only speak good things to him and around him, both our days were much better and we were much happier. For the most part, I did pretty well with this. I realized how much of a difference it made to both of us. The Second was to be orderly. With this, I tried to put homework and what other things were most important first. This was a mix between doing well and not doing so well. Focusing on this virtue helped me to realize how much time and effort I actually spend on the most important tasks needed to be accomplished. I tried my hardest to be moderate in the intake of coffee I had each day. This was the one I struggled most with. I got a really good realization of how reliant I have become upon coffee. Although I did pretty well in controlling how much coffee I had each day, it was very difficult. It was hard for me to skip or limit my coffee. I got a better understanding of my self control from tracking this virtue. Cleanliness was pretty simple. I mostly just made sure to bathe each day- and I did. Lastly, I focused a lot on doing no wrong to others. I took justice as not even doing any small negative thing to anyone, such as, not even throwing my hands up in the air when someone cuts me off in traffic. I did very well in this virtue. Tracking these
While trying to focus on only saying encouraging things to my husband, I found out that the days I did only speak good things to him and around him, both our days were much better and we were much happier. For the most part, I did pretty well with this. I realized how much of a difference it made to both of us. The Second was to be orderly. With this, I tried to put homework and what other things were most important first. This was a mix between doing well and not doing so well. Focusing on this virtue helped me to realize how much time and effort I actually spend on the most important tasks needed to be accomplished. I tried my hardest to be moderate in the intake of coffee I had each day. This was the one I struggled most with. I got a really good realization of how reliant I have become upon coffee. Although I did pretty well in controlling how much coffee I had each day, it was very difficult. It was hard for me to skip or limit my coffee. I got a better understanding of my self control from tracking this virtue. Cleanliness was pretty simple. I mostly just made sure to bathe each day- and I did. Lastly, I focused a lot on doing no wrong to others. I took justice as not even doing any small negative thing to anyone, such as, not even throwing my hands up in the air when someone cuts me off in traffic. I did very well in this virtue. Tracking these