A life lesson from golf balls.
The jar represents your life: golf balls are the really important things — your family, your friends, your health, and your passions. The pebbles are the other important things… your home, your job… and the sand is all the other stuff that is clamoring for your attention each day.
An attorney in our Dearborn Chamber Connect group did a similar demonstration several years ago, when he talked about time management and life priorities. Except this local attorney did an even more effective demonstration, because he performed the demonstration with two jars, side by side jars, and even poured water in the jar after the sand. The jar that is first filled with sand has no room for the big things — the important things.
As the video demonstrates, ‘time management’ is really about setting priorities… and what good is ‘time management’ if you fill up your days with sand and dozens of low priority tasks? It might seem like you are being efficient –managing your time — but if everything is a low priority task (sand) than what did you really accomplish?
Don’t build your life on the sand, and don’t fill up your life with sand.
Busy Time is Not Always Productive Time
Being productive doesn’t mean utilizing every waking minute to do productive things. That’s why I don’t like “hustle culture.” I don’t need to be busy every minute.
Sometimes, spending a day doing various things around the house, maybe taking walk or doing some reading, can actually be more useful. These moments help us examine our lives.
But high achievers and ambitious people often have a problem with doing nothing. They feel like they need to be productive every single minute. So they get busy with minor things.
Darius Faroux
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