Give priority to important things [Time management - Network marketing - MLM]
Maybe you have heard this anecdote by an old Harvard teacher specialized in time management. I would love to tell you that story again to show you a scenario you may have not thought about.
It goes like this: at the beginning of the class, there is on the teacher’s desk a big bowl that could be used as a fish tank. The teacher then puts on his desk a box full of stones as big as a fist and asks his students the following question:
“How many stones do you think could fit into the bowl?”
Every student makes his own guess; after which the teacher fills the bowl with stones and asks his students again:
“Is the bowl full?”
Since it was hard to fit the last stone into the bowl, every student is eager to approve. Next, the teacher begins to smile and takes a out a bag full of gravel, out of which he manages to pour some in the space left over between the stones.
“Is the bowl full?” he asks again.
Given that they don’t want to be deluded twice, the students are wary and reply in the negative. And they were right to do so, as the teacher promptly takes a water jug and manages to pour almost half of its content into the bowl.
At last, he asks:
“What do you think did I want to make you understand?”
“That even if we think our schedule is tight, it’s always possible to find time for other tasks, especially after having taken your class!” shouts one of the students.
The teacher smiles again in amusement, but kindly sends him packing:
“No, What I wanted to show you was that, if I had not chosen to put the bigger stones first, I would not have been able to put them afterwards, because there wouldn’t have been any space left.”
The bigger stones being, of course, the more important things… And for any businessman, the important things – in his professional life of course – are the things that will generate money. Not because he is attracted by profit only, but because he is aware of his own value and of the value of time.
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