Decision making

One of the first traditional exercises is to count ten consecutive breaths.
If you become distracted you have to start from one again.
This simple exercise is a way to see who is in charge. Can you focus on the counting, or will the powers of mind take over? Will you suddenly find yourself thinking about that episode on the job?
OK, that is for beginners. This is extremely more sophisticated:
In a peaceful undisturbed situation, meditate on the divine. Only you know what the divine is for you. For some it is the Buddha. Visualize the divine.
The divine is not only surface. The divine has qualities making it divine. Which are these qualities? What is it like to have these qualities?

Virtue

Whatever we do, we can be virtuous or not virtuous. Even in war, we can be more or less virtuous.
So to be virtuous is not to do something particular, but it concerns how we do whatever we do.
What we do is important, for society and for the individual. If someone interferes in our choice of activity, that might be quite non virtuous. In a world of increasing control, it is popular to interfere in this way.
The rules of virtue are stated negatively: not to kill, not to lie, not to steal.
This implies that there are very many good things we can do. As long as we do not kill, steal or lie, we are virtuous.
In some sects, the idea of virtue is used in an extremely strict sense. Watching television, movies or reading certain books might be considered non virtuous.
It is popular to impose ones own strict rules upon others. The Taliban in Afghanistan have strong opinions about hair style and dress, for example There are more examples.
Is this good? United Nations invaded Afghanistan militarily to drive the Talibans out of power.
So in this case, even UN considered the strict rules to be too strict.
In the sects, virtue is a cause for doing bad. Forcing others to follow strange rules is bad.
Good virtue is to act in a way that is good and nice for others. This should hold for those who advocate virtue as well.,