The teacher silently transfers the rocks from the box to the bucket while his curious students look on. When the bucket is filled to the brim with rocks, he asks the class, “Is the bucket full?”
They respond with a collective “Yes.”
The teacher then reaches under his desk and pulls out a bowl of marbles and proceeds to pour the marbles into the bucket until they reach the top.
The teacher asks again, “Is the bucket full?”
The students are a little more apprehensive this time and hesitate to answer. A few brave souls speak up and say, “No.”
“Good,” the teacher says. He reaches under his desk yet again and pulls out a bag of sand and fills the bucket, followed by a pitcher of water which he dumps over the sand, marbles, and rocks.
The teacher then motions to the bucket and addresses the class once again: “What’s the point of all this?”
The Lesson:
The “rocks” are metaphors for the most important things in your life: family, health, faith, love, education, life goals, etc.
If you don’t put the rocks in your bucket first, you won’t fit them all in. In other words, if you focus too much on the little things (the marbles, sand, and water), you’ll lose sight of what matters most in your life.
We waste so much time on things that don’t matter.
The average American will spend 137,904 hours of their life watching television.
That’s 5,746 days.
15 years.
If you’d rather spend your time doing something that offers a return—whether financial or emotional—on your investment, make sure you focus on taking care of the big rocks in your life first.
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Barry Dillah
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