Posts Tagged ‘virtue of prudence’
The Virtue of Prudence: Living Deliberately
So, we’ve talked about the moral virtue of prudence. We’ve seen how this virtue can help us take control of our time and move our lives forward. This is the first step in using this virtue to fulfill your human potential. How the Virtue of Prudence Helps You Fulfill Your Human Potential Prudence is a natural virtue, associated…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence: Meaningful Work
Exploring how the virtue of prudence can help us live more meaningful lives has led us to examine our leisure. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the virtue of knowing what is truly good and making a plan to get it can also help us make our work more meaningful. It also shouldn’t surprise…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence – No Margin Ned Recap
The virtue of prudence is the virtue of knowing what is good and making a plan to attain it. This last video in the “No Margin Ned” series reviews the main principles for destroying margin in each area of your life. This is a great review of the importance of the virtue of prudence. [leadplayer_vid…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence – Don’t Let Them Control You!
How Responding to Life With the Virtue of Prudence Rather Than Reacting Can Save Your Time and Your SanityEntrepreneur Dean Jackson warns people against what he calls “reactive activators.” What he means by this is that we are conditioned to react to certain stimuli in our lives. In our current world, these stimuli mostly come…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence: Making Relationship a Priority
In this series on the Well-Ordered Life, we have taken a look at the challenge most Catholics face finding time to grow in their faith, where the moral virtue of prudence can help us. The reason that being too “busy” is the wrong way to look at time challenges Why we are so overwhelmed and the…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence: The Best Use of Your Time
As an educator of Catholic adults, by far the greatest frustration I face is lack of attendance at parish programs. Now, I’m not prideful enough to deny that the educational medium (yours truly) may not be attractive enough. But that’s not the reason I hear people give for not attending. Rather, most people say that…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence and True Leisure
In our hectic, overloaded modern world, the virtue of prudence can help us in a surprising way. When we practice prudence, we get into the habit of asking “what is the greatest good” in every situation. This habit not only applies to our moral life and to our faith life, but to all dimensions of…
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