Let’s see how this may play out in real life: Jenny wants to spend some quality time on holiday with her girlfriends. The second point of view is that little rocks can take over every aspect of our lives, and if the big rocks don’t make it in first they won’t fit in as an afterthought. traffic jams, waiting in queues, accidents) cause immense stress because there’s no buffer or ‘wiggle room’? Will it impact on your ability to cope with yet another stressor? Will it impact on your mood? Will it impact on how you interact with others? Will it impact on your relationships? What impact would having every minute scheduled such that unpredictable events (e.g. While that may sound like a way to maximise your time, one important question to ask is how long this approach can be sustained for.
The first – and some will be inclined to interpret it this way – is that no matter how busy you think you are you can somehow squeeze in something else and maximise the minutes available to you. We can look at this tale from two differing perspectives. The story repeats with progressively smaller rocks, until sand is used to fill every crevice, followed by water, and the vessel is then ‘full’. The lecturer then pulls out smaller rocks that fill the crevices in between the big rocks.
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He fills the vessel with these big rocks, asks the class as to whether the vessel is full (the answer being yes as it seems that no more big rocks can fit into that vessel).
There’s a classic tale in Stephen Covey’s book First Things First where a lecturer pulls out some large rocks and a vessel during a class. Why rocks matter when it comes to spring cleaning your life
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