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l 物质成果

l 精神成果

l 健康成果

l 社交成果

    这四个方面给了我们一个完整平衡的视角来看待成果。通过回顾它们，你将能获得自己的整个生活在过去一年中取得了何种进步的完整图景。

    为了帮你回顾，我会在每个方面分享一些你可以用以自问的问题。通过诚实的回答，在每个方面，你都会了解事情是否以你想象的方式取得了进展。如果在某个问题上你的回答是“没有”，你还可以通过继续问“为什么”来找出背后的原因。例如问这个问题：

    你手上有理想的净资金吗？

    如果答案是没有，你就可以再问：

    为什么？

    答案也许是你存得不够多、或是出现了一些意外的开支。你可以据此答案为来年做更好的准备。

    那么，以下就是20个能帮你回顾今年的问题：

1、物质成果

l 你手上有理想的净资金吗？

l 你实现了理想的收入水平吗？

l 你是否养成了让收入有节余的习惯？

l 你是否还清了债务？

l 你是否养成了节约的习惯？

l 你的职业生涯进展是否如你所愿？

l 你是否减少了某些不必要的开支？

2、精神成果

l 你是否找到了一生的使命？

l 你感到心满意足吗？

l 你能够诚恳地说“你很快乐”吗？

l 你是否为精神的成长养成了必要的习惯？（这里的习惯依不同的信仰而定。例如，可能是冥想或是阅读宗教经文）

3、健康成果

l 你是否养成了锻炼的习惯？

l 你是否养成了食用富有营养的食物的习惯？

l 你是否得到了良好的休息？

l 在日常工作时你感觉身体状况还不错吗？

4、社交成果

l 你和配偶的关系符合你的理想吗？

l 你和家庭的关系符合你的理想吗？

l 你是否交了许多新朋友？

l 你是否认识了许多背景不同的人？

    虽然这些问题并不全面，但它们多少能说明你取得的进步。同时，你也可以看出哪个方面是需要你投入最多精力的。由于你必须保持各个方面的平衡，最缺乏的那个方面就是最需要改善的。

    这些问题还能帮你确认应该为每个方面采取什么特定的措施。比如：

l 如果你对“你是否养成了锻炼的习惯”这个问题的回答是“没有”，那你就该集中精力养成这个习惯。

l 如果你对“你是否认识了许多背景不同的人”这个问题的回答是“没有”，那你就该集中精力认识更多来自不同世界的人。

l 如果你对“你是否找到了一生的使命”这个问题的回答是“没有”，那你就该集中精力寻找你的生活目标。

    然后你可以根据对你的生活产生的影响的大小来给这些行动划分优先次序。所有这些，我确信，将会对你在新年里设立目标大有裨益。你的目标应该是在这四方面取得良好而平衡的进步。

20 Questions to Help You Reflect the Past Year

Now we are approaching the end of the year, and it’s the perfect time to reflect how we have done in the past year. We can then take some lessons for the new year. One good way to reflect, I believe, is using four facets of prosperity:

Material prosperity

Spiritual prosperity

Physical prosperity

Social prosperity

These four facets give us a complete and balanced view of prosperity. By reflecting on them, you will get a complete view of how your life as a whole progressed in the past year.

To help you reflect, I’d share some questions you can ask yourself for each facet. By giving honest answers to them, you will be able to see whether or not you have progressed the way you wanted in each facet. For the questions to which your answer is no, you can also ask why to find out the reason behind it. For example, take this question:

Did you achieve the desired net worth?

If your answer is no, you can then ask:

Why?

The answer might be because you didn’t save enough, or there were unexpected expenses you weren’t prepared for. You can use such answers to better prepare yourself for the coming year.

So, here are 20 questions to help you reflect the past year:

1. Material prosperity

Did you achieve your desired net worth?

Did you achieve your desired income level?

Have you built the habit of spending less than you earn?

Have you been able to eliminate debt?

Have you built the habit of saving?

Have your career progressed as you wanted to?

Have you reduced your spending on some unnecessary expenses?

2. Spiritual prosperity

Have you found your life mission?

Did you feel fulfilled?

Could you honestly say that you are happy?

Have you built the necessary habits for spiritual growth? The habits here depend on your belief. They could be meditating or reading sacred texts, for example.

3. Physical prosperity

Have you built the habit of exercising?

Have you built the habit of consuming nutritious food?

Have you had good rest?

Did you feel physically fit in doing your daily work?

4. Social prosperity

Has your relationship with your spouse been as good as you wanted to?

Has your relationship with your family been as good as you wanted to?

Has your relationship with your friends been as good as you wanted to?

Did you make a lot of new friends?

Did you get to know people from more diverse backgrounds?

While the questions listed here are not comprehensive, at least they can give some ideas about how your progress is. Besides, you will be able to see which facet requires the most attention. Since you should maintain the balance of all facets, the facets you lack most are the ones that you should pay more attention to.

The questions can also help you identify the specific actions you should take for each facet. For example:

If your answer to the question Have you built the habit of exercising? is no, then you should focus on building the exercise habit.

If your answer to the question Did you get to know people from more diverse backgrounds? is no, then you should focus on knowing people from different worlds.

If your answer to the question Have you found your life mission? is no, then you should focus on finding your life mission.

You can then prioritize the actions based on what will make the most impact on your life. All these, I believe, will help you set your goals for the new year. Your objective should be to have good and balanced progress in all four facets.