On ThemBid.com’s blog, Elmer Thomas reproduced a timeless success formula created by Benjamin Franklin and described by Napoleon Hill. This is a list of virtues reproduced below and a formula to enact them in your own life:

THE THIRTEEN VIRTUES

1. Temperance
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

2. Silence
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

3. Order
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

4. Resolution
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

5. Frugality
Make no expense but to do good to others and yourself, that is, waste nothing.

6. Industry
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut of all unnecessary actions.

7. Sincerity
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

8. Justice
Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

9. Moderation
Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

10. Cleanliness
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.

11. Tranquility
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents, common or unavoidable.

12. Humility
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

THE FORMULA

To make these virtues habit, they must be practices daily; however, not all at once.