A short transcript of a talk explaining the "big rocks" prioritization metaphor: prioritize your most valuable activities (the "big rocks") by identifying and scheduling them before smaller tasks, or others' urgencies will fill your time. The speaker emphasizes choosing these important activities in advance and protecting them from less important, more urgent interruptions.
He takes the big rocks and he puts them into the tank first. Then he takes the smaller rocks and he puts them in and he fits them around the bigger rocks. Then he takes the little pebbles and he puts them in, and they fit in around the smaller rocks and the bigger ones. And then he pours a ton of sand in there, which fills all the cracks up. And the lesson is that you have to put in the big rocks first, or else they'll never go in. And the interesting thing about the big rocks is that they have to be chosen in advance. In other words, you must identify what your most valuable activities are and then install them in your day ahead of time. Because if you don't, other people will have things for you to do. Other people will take your attention. And I can almost guarantee you that these other things that other people have for you are less important, but in the moment, they seem a lot more urgent. Okay, so you got to put the big rocks in first, and very importantly, you have to know what they are.
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