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:
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
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
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（电子数据表）, 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.
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?
相关单词：facet
facet解释：n.(问题等的)一个方面；(多面体的)面
facet例句：
He has perfected himself in every facet of his job.他已使自己对工作的各个方面都得心应手。
Every facet of college life is fascinating.大学生活的每个方面都令人兴奋。
相关单词：facets
facets解释：n.（宝石或首饰的）小平面( facet的名词复数 )；（事物的）面；方面
facets例句：
The question had many facets. 这个问题是多方面的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
A fully cut brilliant diamond has 68 facets. 经过充分切刻的光彩夺目的钻石有68个小平面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
相关单词：meditate
meditate解释：v.想，考虑，（尤指宗教上的）沉思，冥想
meditate例句：
It is
I was meditating,and reached a higher state of consciousness.我在冥想，并进入了一个更高的意识境界。
相关单词：recording
recording解释：n.录音，记录
recording例句：
How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
相关单词：meditation
meditation解释：n.熟虑，（尤指宗教的）默想，沉思，（pl.）冥想录
meditation例句：
This peaceful garden lends itself to meditation.这个恬静的花园适于冥想。
I'm sorry to interrupt your meditation.很抱歉，我打断了你的沉思。
相关单词：intensity
intensity解释：n.强烈，剧烈；强度；烈度
intensity例句：
I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。
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