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?

    我喜欢用简单的方法来丰富我的生活。每一天都是一个好机会，如何充分利用好每一个机会则完全取决于我们自己。而我希望的就是每一天都过得快乐，每一天都和谐的生活着。

    为了生活和谐延长，我喜欢围绕丰富物质生活与精神生活，进行体育锻炼及社会交往这四个方面去制定自己的计划。我相信，当我的物质生活，精神生活，身体状况，社交能力都达到一个很高的水平，我的生活就已经是充实的，丰富的。

    也许你会觉得还有其他一些方面是有益于丰富你的生活的，但是照我看来，这四个方面不仅容易记住并且已经涵盖了生活的方方面面了。

    为了把理论投诸实践，我要做的就是确保我每一天都有做一些有关于丰富四个方面中各个部分的事情。以下就是我要做的事：

    1.就每一个方面而言，必须确定一些每天必做的事情。
    
    简而言之，就每一个方面而言，挑选一到二个每天必做的工作。超过二个，完成任务将会变得困难。当然，你可能在丰富某一方面的时候想选择更多的任务，但是请挑选就每天生活生活而言最重要的那些事情。对于我来说，一个方面一项任务就足够了。

    要记住的是，任何一项任务都应该是可以记录下来的。这样你就可以知道自己是否已经完成任务了。例如：

    物质：至少两小时工作

    精神：半小时自我反省

    身体：20分钟运动

    社交：至少与一个朋友交流

    2.记录下你每天的生活

    在制定各个方面的各项任务之后，你所需要做的就是确保你会完成所有。记录下你每天的生活对你是有很大帮助的。你可以用一个笔记本，一份电子表格或者其他任何你需要的工具，记下你是否每一天都完成了各项任务。

    就我个人而言，我的工具是Joe’s Goals，一个操作简单，可以帮助你记录生活事项的应用网站。无论我在什么时候完成任务，我就会在Joe’s Goals相应的邮箱里查看进度。这样一来，我就很容易发现自己经常忘记哪一方面的任务然后付出更多的努力去完成。

    3.在过程中自我调整计划。

    如 果你觉得干点别的什么更有效于自我充实，那么请不要犹豫，立即修改计划。例如，也许你会觉得多读一点有关精神方面的书籍比自我反省有用多了。那么你就可以 把你每天的计划从自我反省改为书籍阅读。另一方面，如果你觉得它们两者都有存在的必要，那么你可以把两者都编入计划（虽然做计划的原则是越少越好）。

    另外一种可能就是增加工作的强度，使自己更上一个台阶。例如，你可以把每天20分钟的体育锻炼改为每天半小时的体育锻炼。

    通过这种方式，你就可以确保自己每天都在全方面地丰富着自己的生活。这就好比你在自动驾驶仪上灵活操作。虽然我经常忘记自己每天的计划任务，但是我还是会在某段时间里作出计划任务，而且很高兴看到通过这样的方法我的生活变得和谐，充实，丰富。

    你觉得怎么样呢？对于每天充实自己的生活，你有其他好的提议吗？