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You may have heard the story of a professor who walked into his class carrying a large box and a rather large empty glass jar. Without saying a word, he placed both on his desk and started to pull large rocks out of the box and into the jar until the jar had all the large rocks that it could contain. He asked the class, “Is the jar full?” The class answered, “Yes.”
Then the professor started to take out a bag of pebbles and continued to pour them into the jar. Then picked up the jar and shook it. As he shook the jar, the contents -- the pebbles found their way into the spaces between the large rocks. He asked the class again, “Is the jar full?” Again, the class answered, “Yes.”
Now the professor continued to take out a bag of sand and started pouring it into the jar and then shook the jar again, then poured more sand in the jar, repeating the process of shaking and pouring the fine sand into the jar. He held up the jar so the class could have a good look, then asked the class again, “Is the jar full?” Once again the class answered with a resounding “Yes!”
Then the professor grabbed a large bottle of water from the box and started pouring the water into the jar containing rocks, pebbles and sand until it overflowed. Again the professor asked the class again, “Is the jar full?” The class now wondering what the professor would pull out of the box… again and answered with a questioning “Yes?”
Okay, great story! - Right? But what does the story have to do with choices and change?
The professor explained the illustration this way. The Jar is your life. The large rocks represent the important things in your life -- your core values, your character, your spouse, your children and your family. Anything that is so important to you that if you lost it, you would nearly be destroyed. The pebbles represent less important things like your career, your education, etc. The sand and water is everything else -- the material things, the small stuff, the less important things in your life. If you fill your life with the pebbles, sand, and water, there is no room for the things that really matter.
Ask yourself this question… If we were meeting three years from today, what changes would have happened, personally and professionally, for you to feel satisfied with your progress when we meet?
Start taking action today on those tasks that will contribute to your dream life and ultimately, the path you want to travel. You must concentrate on the activities each day that will produce the results you want in the future.
Remember, making the same choices today will not get you different results next week! What is your life going to look like in 2015?
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 | | A great story with a great message! Thanks for sharing, Roland! |
| | |  | | very nice Roland the story is a perfect illustration of where are priorities lie in life keep that in check and a detailed schedule for max balance and your doing OK :D |
| | |  | | Wow Roland that was worth the reread... Now let's push it back to the top. |
| | |  | | Great blog Roland. We all need to reflect, regroup and move forward with any changes needed to grow. Thanks for sharing. |
| | |  | | great blog thanks for sharing |
| | |  | | Thanks for the great post Roland, and the professor was right. If your business or your life is failing, something has to change. Have a great weekend and GO IBO |
| | |  | | Great blog!. Loved the professor story. |
| | |  | | Great blog! Some days I feel I am over full even though I am not even close! I haven't gotten the sand yet! |
| | |  | | Thanks Roland, Great info!! Life is very important!! |
| | |  | | Having a dream is so important, then we must set reachable goals, and the big daddy of them all is "Focus" with determination to succeed. Thanks for the presentation inclined to keep us thinking. |
| | |  | | Thanks for the comments, Kenneth, Lonnie and Richard. |
| | |  | | Its all about choices. Thanks for the share |
| | |  | | The professor made an attention grabbing presentation. Thankfully we can expand what our lives are capable of holding so that we can keep moving toward making more and more room for the core values. Thanks for sharing this with us, Roland. ~LonnieG |
| | |  | | Liked the story. Good writing. |
| | | | | Thanks Lisa for your comments and sharing - Go IBO! |
| | |  | | What are the important things in our lives and how to do maintain balance amidst all the nuances and other must dos to keep the basic thing of life going? Knowing and keeping focus on what drive your MLM why is critical to success. |
| | |  | | Thank you for sharing. I haven't heard the professor story in a while. |
| | |  | | Thanks Roland for the content here. What a powerful message to share and illustrate.
Insanity: Is doing the same activity repetitively and expecting a different result.
I think you nailed it in your blog. TB&L
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| | |  | | I heard this story before. It does give you something to think about! Great post Roland! |
| | |  | | ****BIG CORRECTION*** Thank you for sharing this Roland :) |
| | | | | I love this illustration. Thank you for sharing Ronald :) |
| | |  | | Thanks for sharing this story Roland, I had heard it before, but it was years ago. It still gives me the same feeling and puts things into perspective. TB&L my friend |
| | |  | | You said it my friend,if you want things to be different then you can't keep doing the same thing over and over.I plan to be finanically free in Three years.I hear you buddie!!!!
Jimmy |
| | |  | | I heard this story, but in a different way. We all should make our family members be #1. as we get our business to the level that it should be.
Karen Donaldson |
| | |  | | great blog, Roland! I heard that story before, never saw it this way. I truely enjoyed and will share this! |
| | | | | Fantastic, This is a great analogy on the basic steps to getting what we want, a plan of action and taking steps to achieve them. |
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