Comments on: Time Management — Create an Extra Hour a day http://wlog.thefourdy.com/time-management-create-an-extra-hour-a-day/  Expressing the unexpressed! Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:08:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chetan Bharadwaj http://wlog.thefourdy.com/time-management-create-an-extra-hour-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Chetan Bharadwaj Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:58:14 +0000 http://wlog.thefourdy.com/?p=293#comment-141 ‘The Stone and The Jar Theory’ First get yourself a pickle jar. Put some large rock pieces in it. Try to pour in as many possible. Let me know when you think it’s full because I’ll manage to put a couple more in anyway. Okay, now we have got a pickle jar full and which we can’t fit anything else into, right? Let us presume the total space within the jar as the total time you have in a day [i.e., 24 hours :)] Now let’s try to put some pebbles in the jar already containing large rocks. Put as many possible and you will soon find those small pieces of pebbles filling in the spaces between the rocks. By the end of this exercise you must be thinking that now the jar is full (assuming that you have utilized your time in optimum), but then take some sand, you guessed it, and fill that jar until you can’t possibly fit more. Sand seeps in and fill in the same still left between those small pebbles…:o. Surprisingly, your time can still be utilized in a better way. Add some water that the sand will soak it up & then you had probably managed your time very well. I am sure the significance of this theory hasn’t escaped any of you! Each one of us has to have a set of priorities in our life (represented by rocks) and along with the accomplishment of those we need to enjoy some other tasks that we have pleasure in doing, like our hobby (represented by pebbles). We also have few minor things to do in complementary to our priorities (which is represented by sand). And without any mentions we have off course obligations and responsibilities that simply clutter up our lives & get in everywhere (i.e., water). After all, Time management is about getting the gamut of all these, from priorities to duties. No Time Management theory should be without a balance between the entire task; and the theory of ‘The Stone and the jar’ is instrumental in making time for everything. Everything merely fits well where it is expected to fit ;). I strongly promote an existence of at least one Time Management System in everyone’s life -- It empowers us to actually ‘do’ in stead of scurrying about without any goals in sight. ‘The Stone and The Jar Theory’

First get yourself a pickle jar. Put some large rock pieces in it. Try to pour in as many possible. Let me know when you think it’s full because I’ll manage to put a couple more in anyway.
Okay, now we have got a pickle jar full and which we can’t fit anything else into, right? Let us presume the total space within the jar as the total time you have in a day [i.e., 24 hours :) ]
Now let’s try to put some pebbles in the jar already containing large rocks. Put as many possible and you will soon find those small pieces of pebbles filling in the spaces between the rocks. By the end of this exercise you must be thinking that now the jar is full (assuming that you have utilized your time in optimum), but then take some sand, you guessed it, and fill that jar until you can’t possibly fit more. Sand seeps in and fill in the same still left between those small pebbles…:o.
Surprisingly, your time can still be utilized in a better way. Add some water that the sand will soak it up & then you had probably managed your time very well. I am sure the significance of this theory hasn’t escaped any of you!
Each one of us has to have a set of priorities in our life (represented by rocks) and along with the accomplishment of those we need to enjoy some other tasks that we have pleasure in doing, like our hobby (represented by pebbles). We also have few minor things to do in complementary to our priorities (which is represented by sand). And without any mentions we have off course obligations and responsibilities that simply clutter up our lives & get in everywhere (i.e., water).
After all, Time management is about getting the gamut of all these, from priorities to duties. No Time Management theory should be without a balance between the entire task; and the theory of ‘The Stone and the jar’ is instrumental in making time for everything. Everything merely fits well where it is expected to fit ;) .
I strongly promote an existence of at least one Time Management System in everyone’s life — It empowers us to actually ‘do’ in stead of scurrying about without any goals in sight.

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