I love to have simple ways to improve my life. Everyday is a chance for improving our life, and it’s up to us to best use it. What I want is to have good, balanced progress everyday.

    To ensure balance, my favorite way is using the four facets of prosperity: material, spiritual, physical, and social. By achieving material prosperity, spiritual prosperity, physical prosperity, and social prosperity, I believe I can have complete and balanced prosperity in my life.

    You may add other facets of prosperity if they work for you, but in my opinion these four facets are easy to remember and already cover practically everything.

    To put this concept into practice, what I do is ensuring that I do something to improve each facet everyday. Here is how I do it:

    1. Decide on something to do daily in each facet

    To keep things simple, choose only one or two tasks to do daily in each facet. More than that, it could be difficult to keep up with them. Of course, you may want to do more than just one or two tasks to improve a facet, but choose only the most important ones to be made daily. In my case, I have just one task for each facet.

    One thing to remember is each of the tasks should be measurable so that you know for sure whether or not you have done it. Here is an example:

    * Material: do project for at least 2 hours
    * Spiritual: meditate for 30 minutes
    * Physical: exercise for 20 minutes
    * Social: ping at least one friend

    2. Record your performance

    After setting the daily tasks for each facet, all you need to do is ensuring that you do them. Recording your performance can greatly help you here. You may use a notebook, a spreadsheet, or any other medium you want. Write down there whether or not you have done a task in a particular day.

    I myself use Joe’s Goals. It’s a simple web application that can help you track your progress. Whenever I finish something, I check the corresponding box in Joe’s Goals. This way I can easily see if I often miss a facet so that I can put more effort there.

    3. Adjust accordingly

    If you think that you can more effectively improve yourself doing something else, don’t hesitate to change the tasks. For example, maybe you think that reading spiritual text will give you better result than meditation for spiritual prosperity. In that case, you can change your daily task from meditation to reading spiritual text. On the other hand, if you think that they are both necessary, you can decide to do both (though you shouldn’t forget to keep things simple).

    Another possibility is increasing the intensity of the tasks to bring you to the next level. For instance, instead of exercising for 20 minutes a day, you could make it 30 minutes a day.

    By using this system, you can be sure that you do something everyday to improve yourself in all facets. It’s as if you make balanced progress on autopilot. I’ve used it for some time and - though I miss my daily tasks here and there - I’m glad to see how it helps me have balanced progress to complete prosperity.

    What do you think? Do you have other tips for daily improvement?

    我喜歡用簡(jiǎn)單的方法來(lái)豐富我的生活。每一天都是一個(gè)好機(jī)會(huì)，如何充分利用好每一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)則完全取決于我們自己。而我希望的就是每一天都過(guò)得快樂(lè)，每一天都和諧的生活著。

    為了生活和諧延長(zhǎng)，我喜歡圍繞豐富物質(zhì)生活與精神生活，進(jìn)行體育鍛煉及社會(huì)交往這四個(gè)方面去制定自己的計(jì)劃。我相信，當(dāng)我的物質(zhì)生活，精神生活，身體狀況，社交能力都達(dá)到一個(gè)很高的水平，我的生活就已經(jīng)是充實(shí)的，豐富的。

    也許你會(huì)覺(jué)得還有其他一些方面是有益于豐富你的生活的，但是照我看來(lái)，這四個(gè)方面不僅容易記住并且已經(jīng)涵蓋了生活的方方面面了。

    為了把理論投諸實(shí)踐，我要做的就是確保我每一天都有做一些有關(guān)于豐富四個(gè)方面中各個(gè)部分的事情。以下就是我要做的事：

    1.就每一個(gè)方面而言，必須確定一些每天必做的事情。
    
    簡(jiǎn)而言之，就每一個(gè)方面而言，挑選一到二個(gè)每天必做的工作。超過(guò)二個(gè)，完成任務(wù)將會(huì)變得困難。當(dāng)然，你可能在豐富某一方面的時(shí)候想選擇更多的任務(wù)，但是請(qǐng)?zhí)暨x就每天生活生活而言最重要的那些事情。對(duì)于我來(lái)說(shuō)，一個(gè)方面一項(xiàng)任務(wù)就足夠了。

    要記住的是，任何一項(xiàng)任務(wù)都應(yīng)該是可以記錄下來(lái)的。這樣你就可以知道自己是否已經(jīng)完成任務(wù)了。例如：

    物質(zhì)：至少兩小時(shí)工作

    精神：半小時(shí)自我反省

    身體：20分鐘運(yùn)動(dòng)

    社交：至少與一個(gè)朋友交流

    2.記錄下你每天的生活

    在制定各個(gè)方面的各項(xiàng)任務(wù)之后，你所需要做的就是確保你會(huì)完成所有。記錄下你每天的生活對(duì)你是有很大幫助的。你可以用一個(gè)筆記本，一份電子表格或者其他任何你需要的工具，記下你是否每一天都完成了各項(xiàng)任務(wù)。

    就我個(gè)人而言，我的工具是Joe’s Goals，一個(gè)操作簡(jiǎn)單，可以幫助你記錄生活事項(xiàng)的應(yīng)用網(wǎng)站。無(wú)論我在什么時(shí)候完成任務(wù)，我就會(huì)在Joe’s Goals相應(yīng)的郵箱里查看進(jìn)度。這樣一來(lái)，我就很容易發(fā)現(xiàn)自己經(jīng)常忘記哪一方面的任務(wù)然后付出更多的努力去完成。

    3.在過(guò)程中自我調(diào)整計(jì)劃。

    如 果你覺(jué)得干點(diǎn)別的什么更有效于自我充實(shí)，那么請(qǐng)不要猶豫，立即修改計(jì)劃。例如，也許你會(huì)覺(jué)得多讀一點(diǎn)有關(guān)精神方面的書(shū)籍比自我反省有用多了。那么你就可以 把你每天的計(jì)劃從自我反省改為書(shū)籍閱讀。另一方面，如果你覺(jué)得它們兩者都有存在的必要，那么你可以把兩者都編入計(jì)劃（雖然做計(jì)劃的原則是越少越好）。

    另外一種可能就是增加工作的強(qiáng)度，使自己更上一個(gè)臺(tái)階。例如，你可以把每天20分鐘的體育鍛煉改為每天半小時(shí)的體育鍛煉。

    通過(guò)這種方式，你就可以確保自己每天都在全方面地豐富著自己的生活。這就好比你在自動(dòng)駕駛儀上靈活操作。雖然我經(jīng)常忘記自己每天的計(jì)劃任務(wù)，但是我還是會(huì)在某段時(shí)間里作出計(jì)劃任務(wù)，而且很高興看到通過(guò)這樣的方法我的生活變得和諧，充實(shí)，豐富。

    你覺(jué)得怎么樣呢？對(duì)于每天充實(shí)自己的生活，你有其他好的提議嗎？