Follow Benjamin Franklin's proven system for personal development. Track your daily progress, reflect through journaling, and build lasting character traits.
A comprehensive system designed to help you cultivate virtue and track your moral development over time.
Rate your adherence to each virtue daily with Franklin's grid system
Concentrate on one virtue per week, following Franklin's method
Document your thoughts, challenges, and growth moments
Visualize your character development over time
Benjamin Franklin developed this list at age 20 and practiced it throughout his life. Each virtue builds upon the others.
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; waste nothing.
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or injury.
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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