Priorities and Goals - Filling the Jar

The story goes a professor held up an empty jar in front of his class. He then filled it with big rocks and asked is it full? They of course answered yes! He then poured in small rocks and shook them in around the big rocks and asked, is it full? Okay, now yes. He then shook in gravel around the smaller rocks and asked. Now they were catching on and said "could be." He then poured in sand and asked. "Maybe" came back. He now poured in water up to the brim and asked a new question: "What is the point?" Some said you cant be sure of anything, others that you can often squeeze more in. "No, the point is, if you don't put the big things in first, they may not fit!" This is a life lesson friends, to figure out what things are most important to you, put them first, and make sure they don't get squeezed out or buried under the little things. No one is going to do it for you. Life and relationships seem to go on forever but are over all too soon. Stop, look, listen to your own heart, to your gut feeling, to that still small voice calling out from behind the chaos and frenzy that is modern life. See the previous post on urgency and importance and check out First Things First Unwritten .