Finding Time

One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students.

He pulled out a wide-mouth jar and set it on the table.

Then he brought up 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 reached 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 the jar full Probably not, one of them answered.

Good! he replied. He reached for a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all of 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 some water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim.

He looked at the class and asked, What is the point of this illustration.

He 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! He also said that if you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all.

What are the 'big rocks' in your life, Education.

When you put in Education first, you will then have time to fill more of things like prayer, time for your parents, etc.

Thanks to: Seenivasan Varadachar pavsri@gmail.com