Big rocks
One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those student will never forget.
As he stood in front of the group of overachievers, he said, "OK, time for quiz." He pulled out a one-gallon, wide mouth jar and set it on the table in front of him. He also produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?"
Everyone in the class yelled, "Yes." The time management expert replied, "Really?" He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel, He dumped some gravel in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked the group once more, "Is this jar full?"
By this time, the class was onto him. "Probably not," one of them aswered. "Good!" he replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, "Is this jar full?"
"No!" the class shouted. Once again he said, "Good!" Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?" Once eager student raised his hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!"
"No," the speaker replied, "that's not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us if you don't put the big rock first, you'll never get them in at all. What are the 'big rocks' in your life? Time with your lover ones, your education, your dreams, a worthy cause, or teaching others? Remember to put this rocks in first or you'll never get them in at all.
Quotes :
The biggest challenge for everybody is to figure out where the priorities lies.
Good things happend when you get your priorities straight..
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