While certainly not an original idea, after all Benjamin Franklin practiced it, each year my resolution is to work toward a virtuous life. For 2021, my project is humility. In preparing for the New Year, I acknowledge a list of steps necessary to be mindful of humility in my life.

• Expertise/knowledge is limited by finite insight and understanding
• Appreciate and respect others
• Listen first and, if necessary, speak in as few words as possible
• Withhold judgment
• Blaming is counter-productive
• Help and learn from each person encountered
• Uplift others in words and actions
• Always remember there is a possibility of being wrong
• Express gratitude in every situation
• Look for opportunities to serve others
• All solutions are on God’s schedule
• Compare things- not people
• Gossip is most often a form of comparing
• It is not who is right, but what is right
• Follow God’s example of total love and complete forgiveness

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less- C S Lewis