時尚雙語:充實的生活 就是簡簡單單

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?

我喜歡用簡單的方法來豐富我的生活。每一天都是一個好機會，如何充分利用好每一個機會則完全取決於我們自己。而我希望的就是每一天都過得快樂，每一天都和諧的生活着。

爲了生活和諧延長，我喜歡圍繞豐富物質生活與精神生活，進行體育鍛煉及社會交往這四個方面去制定自己的計劃。我相信，當我的物質生活，精神生活，身體狀況，社交能力都達到一個很高的水平，我的生活就已經是充實的，豐富的。

也許你會覺得還有其他一些方面是有益於豐富你的生活的，但是照我看來，這四個方面不僅容易記住並且已經涵蓋了生活的方方面面了。

爲了把理論投諸實踐，我要做的就是確保我每一天都有做一些有關於豐富四個方面中各個部分的事情。以下就是我要做的事：

1.就每一個方面而言，必須確定一些每天必做的事情。

簡而言之，就每一個方面而言，挑選一到二個每天必做的工作。超過二個，完成任務將會變得困難。當然，你可能在豐富某一方面的時候想選擇更多的任務，但是請挑選就每天生活生活而言最重要的那些事情。對於我來說，一個方面一項任務就足夠了。

要記住的是，任何一項任務都應該是可以記錄下來的。這樣你就可以知道自己是否已經完成任務了。例如：

物質：至少兩小時工作

精神：半小時自我反省

身體：20分鐘運動

社交：至少與一個朋友交流

2.記錄下你每天的生活

在制定各個方面的各項任務之後，你所需要做的就是確保你會完成所有。記錄下你每天的生活對你是有很大幫助的。你可以用一個筆記本，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任務。

就我個人而言，我的工具是Joe’s Goals，一個操作簡單，可以幫助你記錄生活事項的應用網站。無論我在什麼時候完成任務，我就會在Joe’s Goals相應的郵箱裏查看進度。這樣一來，我就很容易發現自己經常忘記哪一方面的任務然後付出更多的努力去完成。

3.在過程中自我調整計劃。

如 果你覺得乾點別的什麼更有效於自我充實，那麼請不要猶豫，立即修改計劃。例如，也許你會覺得多讀一點有關精神方面的書籍比自我反省有用多了。那麼你就可以 把你每天的計劃從自我反省改爲書籍閱讀。另一方面，如果你覺得它們兩者都有存在的必要，那麼你可以把兩者都編入計劃（雖然做計劃的原則是越少越好）。

另外一種可能就是增加工作的強度，使自己更上一個臺階。例如，你可以把每天20分鐘的體育鍛煉改爲每天半小時的體育鍛煉。

通過這種方式，你就可以確保自己每天都在全方面地豐富着自己的生活。這就好比你在自動駕駛儀上靈活操作。雖然我經常忘記自己每天的計劃任務，但是我還是會在某段時間裏作出計劃任務，而且很高興看到通過這樣的方法我的生活變得和諧，充實，豐富。

你覺得怎麼樣呢？對於每天充實自己的生活，你有其他好的提議嗎？