A short spoken reflection by Chris Collins using Franklin Covey’s vase-and-rocks analogy to illustrate time management: prioritize the big, important tasks first (the "rocks") and let smaller tasks (the "sand") fall into place. The message emphasizes that focusing on major priorities causes many trivial tasks to resolve or disappear.
There's an analogy in Franklin Covey, he has a book on time management that I've read, and there's an analogy in there of a vase, and he says, if you need to put these rocks and the sand in the vase, if you put the sand in first, the rocks don't fit. Yeah, but if you put in the rocks first and pour the sand over the top, then it fits. And basically what he's saying, or my interpretation of that, is if you do the big things that are going to get you to where you need to go first, then the sand kind of takes care of itself. It's funny how many little things go away.
If you focus on the big things.
