How to Stick with Your Virtues and Good Purposes – Motivating Reflections

In this blog post I offer a few motivating reflections to help you stick to your virtues and good purposes:

• Reflect on the benefits to yourself of living from a virtue or purpose; do things to keep those benefits in mind (e.g., pictures of healthy people on the refrigerator, a list of reasons on a bathroom mirror for lightening up and not sweating the small stuff).
• Reflect on the benefits to others of living from a virtue or purpose; really try to have positive feelings about those benefits, not just a passing thought.
• Consider the costs to yourself and to others of not living from virtue or purpose.
• Allow yourself to feel appropriate remorse for not living from a virtue or purpose.

What else can you add to this list?

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