This is a story, most of you must be familiar with. Let’s learn the value of time with the moral stories on time management in an interesting way. a short story about not wasting time.
Focus on the Rocks, stop wasting time
A philosophy professor, once, decided to teach the students some valuable lesson about Time Management, This is one of such Moral Stories on time management to teach the value of time. so he stood before his class with some items on the table.
When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a big and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in size. He then looked towards the class and asked the students if the jar was full. They all agreed to it that it was full.
So the professor then moved to pick up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar gently. The pebbles, of course, rolled through the gaps between the rocks.
He then again looked up to the students and asked if the jar was full. They all again shook their heads in agreement.
For the last time, he turned towards a jar, and this time, picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar and shook it lightly. Of course, the sand moved into the gaps and filled up everything else.
He then asked one last time if the jar was full or not. The students were surprised but responded with a unanimous “Yes.”
“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to realize that this jar actually is your life. The rocks are the important things — your family, your children, your health, your partner — things that are everything. if nothing remained but only these then your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter — like your job, your career, your house.
The sand is everything else. The small stuff. The unimportant stuff.”
“If you put the sand (unimportant stuff) into the jar first,” he continued “there is no space for the pebbles (career, job) or the rocks (family, children).
Moral of the Story:
The same goes for your life.
If you keep on filling the jar with the sand means if you keep on spending all your time and energy on the pity things. you will never have room for the things that are prime for you.
Pay attention to the things that are valuable to your happiness. Spend some time with your children. Take your partner out for dinner. You will never be out of time to go to work, offer a dinner party, help your spouse in cleaning the house, and fix the disposal.
First and foremost, Focus on the rocks — the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
