生活貼士七步走:幫你充實地度過每一天(圖)
Whether we like it or not, days bleed into one another and weeks slip by quickly. I hate the feeling of looking back on a month and thinking, “Wait… Now what did I do again? Anything?” One way to ease your mind that your days have been well spent is to focus less on checking tasks off a list, and more on making each day valuable to you and to the world.
不管我們喜歡與否，從一天到另一天，幾個星期一下子就過去了。我討厭這種感覺：當我回顧這個月的時想到，“等等…我又幹了什麼？幹了什麼？”一種讓你心情平靜的方法是使你的時間被有效使用，較少的關注在檢查任務單上，更多的讓每一天對於你和世界而言變得更有價值上。
Do One Thing That Scares You
This one has become a cliche, but that doesn’t make it irrelevant. (Please don’t run into traffic just to get heart rate up, though.) Seek out fears that may be holding you back from trying new things. Talk to that cute girl on the bus. Negotiate a deal. Present an idea at work. Attempt a ridiculously complex meal. When you regularly do things that kind of freak you out, you stretch your boundaries and create a much bigger, more rewarding comfort zone to play in. “Safe” and “stuck” don’t have to be synonymous.
做一件讓你害怕的事
這已經是陳詞濫調了，但是這並使它顯得不入流。(儘管如此，請不要緊緊爲了加速心跳衝進車流中。)找出會阻止你嘗試新東西的恐懼心理。與在車站的那個可愛女孩談話。做一筆生意。在工作上提出一個創意。嘗試一頓滑稽的大雜燴。當你有規律的做些讓你極度興奮的事情，你拓展了你的界限並且創造了一個大得多的，更有價值的舒適的圈子。“安全”和“僵化”並不一定是同義詞。
Do One Thing That Soothes You
The world doesn’t have to take care of you: you can take care of yourself. You need to take care of yourself. If you’re angry, find a way to release it. If you’re frustrated, do something nice for yourself. If you’re tired and cranky, enjoy a treat instead of martyring yourself for no good reason. Take a moment, just once a day, to make yourself feel good, and remind yourself that you’re responsible for your own happiness.
做一件讓你感覺良好的事
這個世界並不一定要照顧你：你可以自己照顧自己。你必須自己照顧自己。如果你生氣了，找到途徑去釋放它。如果你感到煩惱，做些可以讓自己心情舒暢的事。如果你疲勞並且虛弱，與其毫無理由的折磨自己不如好好犒勞下自己。花些時間，只用一天一次，讓你自己感覺良好，並且提醒自己要爲自己的快樂負責。
Do One Thing for Someone Else
Being selfless feels good—more than one study has demonstrated this. (Kind of throws a kink in the “selflessness” of the act, but we won’t worry about that…) Taking time to do a kindness for another person reminds you of the reasons you have to be thankful, all while strengthening your relationships with others. If you give and truly expect nothing in return, it’s rare to have any regrets about it.
爲別人做件事
無私的感覺是好的——不只一項研究表明如此。（有些人對無私的行動有些奇怪的看法，但是我們不必爲此擔心…）花些時間爲別人做件好事提醒你懷着感恩的理由，同時增強了你與他人的聯繫。如果你只是給予並且不指望回報，很少會爲這感到後悔的。
Do One Thing for the Future
The future is a pretty fluid concept here: next week, next month, your 80th birthday… You can transfer funds to your savings accout, spend time talking with your child, do some yoga as part of a weight loss plan, anything that gets you one step closer to your goals for the future. Regardless of whether you’re learning French for next year’s trip or making a quilt to be passed down for generations, you need to stay connected with your future on a regular basis. That’s where some of your best moments are yet to be realized.
爲未來做件事
未來在這裏是個非常流動性的概念：下個星期，下個月，你的八十歲生日….你可以往你的存摺上轉賬，花時間與你的孩子談話，爲減肥計劃而做瑜伽，做些任何能讓你更進一步接近你的未來目標的事情。不管是否是爲了來年的旅行而學法語，或者爲下一代做一牀被子，你需要與你的未來在一個經常的基礎上保持聯繫。那是一些你將體會到的最好的時光開始的地方。
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
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
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.
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。
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).
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）。
