A weekly practice
How Practice Works
You can learn from a single page, practice informally, or choose a weekly program.
Read freely
Begin with a question that matters to you. A virtue page offers its meaning, everyday situations, possible benefits, misleading substitutes, and ways to cultivate it. Follow related virtues when a distinction is worth exploring.
Try something small
Choose an ordinary situation where the stakes are manageable. Practice is a repeated choice, not a performance of perfection. You do not need to enroll, report back, or record anything.
Choose a program, if useful
Join an editorial program such as Diplomat’s Virtues, or create My Virtues from approved virtues. Both named programs and active My Virtues keep their membership and order. Refine a separate draft of 7–26 virtues as often as needed. To activate it or join another standard program, first leave the current program.
Return week by week
The Workbook gives one virtue a week and records faults with dots. Click a cell to add a dot, up to five; the next click clears it. Only today and earlier days of the current Monday–Sunday week are editable. Use the back arrow to read earlier weeks and Current Week to return. Your records are private.
Try the Workbook
Click any cell to add a dot. After five dots, the next click clears the cell. This example is not saved.
| Virtue | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temperance | |||||||
| Silence | |||||||
| Order |
Changing your personal sequence
Saving a revised My Virtues draft leaves your active program intact. Activate My Virtues when ready, after explicitly leaving your current program. Keep records is the default when leaving; removing the named program’s records requires confirmation. Keeping a standard program allows you to rejoin it with its original start date and dots.
Franklin’s influence
Benjamin Franklin described a list of thirteen virtues, concentrating on one at a time and keeping a daily record. The useful inheritance is repeated attention. You may use the daily dot grid inspired by his method, or practice without recording dots. Neither his entire moral framework nor thirteen virtues is required for personal practice.
Benjamin Franklin · Autobiography
Take these ideas into everyday life
Choose a catalog program in its fixed sequence, or create My Virtues with your own selection and order before starting. Reading and trying the exercises never requires an account.