The Seven Deadly Sins are (in no particular order):

Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride

You're probably at least semi-aware of these. Well, they're "sins" because they "miss the mark" (that's where our word "sin" comes from, the Greek word for an arrow missing the target). If we keep missing the mark, we will feel disenfranchised, and probably take it out on the world via one of the Deadly Sins. The solution is simultaneously the easiest and most immediate thing, as well as the most difficult and distant thing - ourselves. If we honestly self-reflect on our "misses", our sins, we actually gain perspective, which we can then use to make different decisions in the future, thus limiting our chances - if not out-right eliminating our chances - of repeatedly "missing", or sinning, or, simply put, repeating a mistake. What do you think happens to a life that cuts away at repeated mistakes? Won't it change? Possibly even improve? As the colloquial cliché goes: If we do the same thing over and over and over again, and expect different results, we've gone insane. The solution for insanity is sanity, which hides IN-sanity. That's why honest self-reflection is so empowering. It offers us more degrees of freedom. Or, in a word: Hope.

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