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. You can prepare a different personal selection, but using it requires an explicit restart.
Return week by week
The workbook gives one virtue a week. Its grid records daily dots; a separate weekly mark records participation. Click a cell to add a dot, up to five; the next click clears it. You may edit today and past days, but not future dates. Your records are private; no written journal responses are stored.
Changing your personal sequence
Restarting My Virtues starts cycle one, week one with a fresh grid. Your earlier program, daily dots and participation history remain available read-only. Pausing keeps the same program and freezes its progression.
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.