Spotting the 9 Enneagram Sins in Me

1. Anger: more easily recognized as impatience or frustration because my and others' progress towards godliness is too dang slow!

2. Pride: judging my own worth above others based on status, age, worldly knowledge, education, or supposedly-good deeds; a byproduct of believing that I have something to offer others without believing that others have just as much to offer me.

3. Deceit: acting or saying whatever I think my friends wish to hear/see in order to gain their esteem, goodwill, or praise.

4. Envy: a discontented attitude that believes what I have isn't good enough and what you have is, and if I have what you have, I'll be happier.

5. Greed: a continuous grasping for more time, energy, information, or money out of fear that what I have is not enough to sustain me in the future.

6. Fear: a black cloud of dread that something bad is going to happen, and that when it happens, I won't be able to handle it.

7. Gluttony: an insatiable appetite for distractions—be it celebrations, Netflix shows, or educational activities—while having an aversion to all that seems boring, painful, or uncomfortable.

8. Lust: attempting to bring within my sphere of influence, people or situations or things that aren't mine to control or order or manipulate.

9. Sloth: an unwillingness to disrupt my own inner equilibrium for the sake of affecting change in others, situations, or things.

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