Call a friend: use the telephone.
Keep on fishing to get all 12 fish. (takes time and devotion)
You need to have a preteen and then you send them to a neighbors to do the goals.
Go to a neighbors park and tap your sim and choose reach nirvana.
First your sims need a job to go to work. Go to your neighborhood screen, click on a workplace and it will pop up a screen to choose jobs for your sims. Put them to work.