簡單一小步 豐富每一天
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.
我喜歡用簡單的方法提升自己的生活質量。對我們來說每天都是一個新的機遇，關鍵在於我們如何最有效地利用它。我所希望的便是每天都可以有良好平穩的提升。
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.
我最傾向於通過物質生活、精神境界、身體素質、社交活動四個方面的互補來保持生活的平衡。如果可以達到物質富足、精神愉悅、身體健康以及社交活躍，那麼你一定會擁有和諧美妙而豐富多彩的生活。
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.
當然啦，你還可以添加一些你認爲對你有用的東西。不過，我認爲以上的四個方面很容易記住，它們基本已經包涵了所有。
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:
爲了實踐這個觀念，我每天都會努力來完善這四個方面。下面是我的個人做法：
1. Decide on something to do daily in each facet
1. 每天都要做一些關於這幾個方面的事情。
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.
每天每個方面只做一兩個任務，把事情簡單化。不過，要堅持下來還是蠻難的。當然啦，爲了提高，可能你每天做了不止一兩個任務，要記住，挑最重要的去做。關於每個方面，我一天只做一個任務。
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:
還有一點就是，你所做的任務最好有可以衡量的標準，這樣你才能知道你到底完成了沒有。下面舉個例子：
* Material: do project for at least 2 hours
物質方面：至少工作兩個小時
* Spiritual: meditate for 30 minutes
精神方面：自我反省30分鐘
* Physical: exercise for 20 minutes
身體方面：運動20分鐘
* Social: ping at least one friend
社交方面：至少和一個朋友嘮嗑
2. Record your performance
2. 記錄你的進度。
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.
在設定了每天的任務計劃後，我們所要做的就是確保自己有所行動。記錄每天的進度是個很有效的辦法。你可以用一個筆記本、電子表格或者任何你喜歡的工具。在那裏記錄你一天之內是否完成任務。
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.
我自己是用的"Joe's Goals"，它是一個簡單實用的網絡應用，可以跟蹤記錄你的進程。每當我完成一個任務，我都會在相應的方格里打上勾。這樣，我就可以很清晰明瞭地看見自己忽視了哪些方面，並且去完善。
3. Adjust accordingly
3. 合理調整
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).
如果你覺得通過其他的途徑你可以更有效的提升自己，那麼不要猶豫，果斷地調整任務吧。例如，你覺得品讀一些心靈雞湯方面的文章會比自我反省更好地提升你的思想境界，那麼你可以把每日自我反省調整成閱讀有關精神方面的文章。另外，如果你覺得這兩個都很不錯，你可以兩個都選（但還是得記住不要把事情複雜化）。
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.
還有一種可能就是增加任務的強度以進階，例如，你可以從每天鍛鍊20分鐘提升到每天鍛鍊30分鐘。
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.
通過實踐這套體系，你可以確保自己每天都有做一些事情來提升自己的各個方面。這就像自動駕駛時平穩有效的行駛一樣。我曾這樣做過一段時間，雖然時不時就會忘這忘那。但很高興的是，在穩步提升自己的生活質量方面，它確實有幫助到我。
What do you think? Do you have other tips for daily improvement?
你有怎樣的想法？對於提升自己的日常生活質量你有其它的建議嗎？
