Boulder
One day a lecturer is giving lectures about time management to the MBA students. With the passionate he stood in front of the class and said, “Okey, now the time for the quiz.” Then he issued an empty bucket and put on the table. He fill that bucket with a fist of stone. He continued to fill until no more stones that can enter into the bucket. He then asked the class, “What do you think, are you have a bucket full?”
All the students said in unison, “Yes!”.
The Lecturers ask again, “Is that really?”, Then in the drawer of his desk taking a pocket of small gravel and pebble-gravel pouring it into a bucket and shakes the bucket that the gravels was down below to fill slits between the empty stones. Then again, he asked the class, “Now, whether the current bucket is full?”.
This time the students quiet. One of them replied, “Probably not.”
“Excellent,” the lecturer respond. Then he issued a pocket of sand and down into the bucket. It fell to the sand-slit rift between the empty stone and gravel. Once again, he asked the class, “OK, now whether this bucket is full?”
“Not!”, The whole class respond.
Once again, he said, “Good, very good,” Then he reach a bottle of water and started down into the bucket until the water reaches a bucket lip. Then he asked to turn in and classes, “Did you mean what Illustration of this?”
A student with a vibrant point the finger and said, “The purpose is not concerned about how solid our schedule, if we want to exert every effort would be following.”
“Oh, not,” the lecturer respond. “It’s not the intent. Illustration of this reality teaches us that, if you do not enter “boulder” first, then you will not be able to enter all. ”
“What is a “big stone” in your life?”, The lecturer continued, “your children, your partner, your education, things that are most important in your life. It may be a thing to teach other people to do the job you like, time for yourself, your health, friends, or all that you deem valuable. ”
“Remember to always enter a “boulder” first or you will lose everything,” continued the lecturer. “When you fill them with small stones (such as gravel and sand), then your life will be full with things small and worrying that this operation is not necessary. Because of this, you will never have the time that you can use for things that are larger and important. ”
“Therefore, my message, every morning or evening when you remember the course of this day, ask yourself on: What is the “big stone” in my life. Then do it first! “, So the university lecturer close that day.
