{"id":689,"date":"2015-03-23T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/?p=24961"},"modified":"2015-03-23T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:13:22","slug":"how-to-stick-with-your-virtues-and-good-purposes-motivating-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/justonething\/2015\/03\/how-to-stick-with-your-virtues-and-good-purposes-motivating-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stick with Your Virtues and Good Purposes \u2013 Motivating Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In this blog post I offer a few motivating reflections to help you stick to your virtues and good purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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).<\/li>\n<li>Reflect on the benefits to others of living from a virtue or purpose; really try to have positive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">feelings<\/span> about those benefits, not just a passing thought.<\/li>\n<li>Consider the costs to yourself and to others of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> living from virtue or purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Allow yourself to feel appropriate remorse for not living from a virtue or purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else can you add to this list?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/stick-virtues-good-purposes-motivating-reflections\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">How to Stick with Your Virtues and Good Purposes \u2013 Motivating Reflections<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Rick Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=BmPwldcUn3g:fNyCvRePqxQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=BmPwldcUn3g:fNyCvRePqxQ:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=BmPwldcUn3g:fNyCvRePqxQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?i=BmPwldcUn3g:fNyCvRePqxQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=BmPwldcUn3g:fNyCvRePqxQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?i=BmPwldcUn3g:fNyCvRePqxQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/rickhanson\/blog\/~4\/BmPwldcUn3g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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; 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