A STORY: A professor is addressing a class in logic. He fills a jug with big rocks and asks the class if it’s full. The class agrees, “Yes, it is.” Next, he adds pebbles to the jug and they settle down into the crevices around the big rocks. He asks again if the jug is full, and again the class says, “Yes.” But, “No, it isn’t” he says “No” and proceeds to add sand to the jug.

The sand and the pebbles represent the small daily tasks we fill our lives with. If we don’t fit our big rocks in first, our lives will fill with only sand and pebbles. But, if we start with our big rocks, we create room for what’s important in life – and the sand and pebbles can only fill the spaces in between.