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The 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 Well Ordered Life – Set DUMB Goals for Yourself!
The first step of Catholic spiritual growth is to grow in prudence, virtue of a well-ordered life, so we have the time and energy to focus on our relationship with God. Brendon Burchard is on of the foremost experts in creating and selling transformational information products – as he puts it “helping people get their…
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 MoreAuthor Book Reading: It’s OK to Start With You
This week’s book reading is from therapist Julia Marie Hogan, LCPC. She reads from her book It’s OK to Start With You. In this book reading, Julie reads from the second chapter of her book, “Being Mean to Ourselves,” in which she talks about how to deal with out “inner critic.” This fascinting book…
Read MoreThe Well-Ordered Life – Making the Tough Choices
Living a well-ordered life with prudence (virtue) is the first step of Catholic spiritual growth. Unless we have the time, energy and attention to give to our relationship with Jesus, we cannot expect that relationship to grow. We’ve seen how we can reclaim some of the time in our day through planned responses to the…
Read MoreToo Busy? 4 Ways the Virtue of Prudence Can Help
The virtue of Prudence is a powerful weapon against our chronic condition of having no time to pray. In this article, we’re going to explore specific ways that the cardinal virtue of prudence helps us conquer busyness and overload and build margin into our lives. 1. Prudence keeps us from getting too busy and overloaded by helping…
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 MoreKeeping Your Cool In the Heat of Summer
Summertime is a wonderful time to experience the beauty of God’s creation and to spend precious time with the ones we love. Summer can evoke memories of hopscotch, lemonade, and picnics with the family. However, with the heat of the summer can also come the burden of discomfort. I live in the north, so summers…
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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