I so often disagree with you, but not a word of dissent from me on this post. Unlike how I was taught, Lent is about moral self-improvement, not about self-punishment. And your litany surely offers ways we can humbly serve others by positively--not painfully--improving and disciplining ourselves. Thanks.

One aside...sometimes more, not less, "me time," even fun me time,  can allow us to better discern, evaluate, ponder, to self reward, to celebrate, to have joy, and to get to know and like ourselves better. To me, Lent used to be about punishing us for unworthiness, but at this point in my life, I think, it is about becoming more worthy...of love, of self-esteem, of others, of example, of  life. In Lent our "reach should exceed our grasp, or what's a heaven for?" That's pro-life and pro-living.