Following your dream, you will soon find that one of the best ways to maintain your inner fire is effective time management. Perhaps once you have already held a good time in time management, for example, the Franklin Covey Course. I want to offer you a new view of time management. He will help you build a business or develop a professional career, taking into account other priorities.
The author of several bestsellers and speaker Steven Kovi tells one funny story: once at a lecture, the teacher offered the students one experiment. He put a large glass vase on the table and laid several large stones nearby, about the size of a fist. Then he asked the audience: “What do you think how many stones will fit in this vase?”The listeners began to extensively put forward assumptions, and he began to fill the vase with stones until he filled it. “The vase is filled?”He asked. “Yes,” answered the listeners. The teacher said: “Now look”. He took a bucket of small gravel and poured it into a vase. Gravel filled the voids between large stones. “And now the vase is filled?”He asked again. By this time, listeners have already begun to understand what the teacher wanted to show them. “Not yet,” they shouted.
“Okay,” said the teacher and took out a bucket of sand. He poured sand into a vase, and he filled all the cracks between the large stones and gravel and again asked: “So, is the vase filled?” “No!” – the listeners shouted. Then he took a bottle of water and poured it into a vase water filled the remaining cracks between sand, gravel and stones. “But if at first I had not put large stones in the vase,” the teacher said, “they would not have fitted in it.”.
We often try to first fill the “vase” of our life with sand, gravel and water, leaving no time for “large stones”. Large stones are the most important things in life – things that bring happiness and fill life with meaning. In previous articles, we investigated our values and talked about what is most important for us. In the next exercise, you will have the opportunity to think about it again and focus on your main priorities. This is a very useful exercise, because when you know what your “big stones” are, you can configure your “Time Management Program” so as to do what is really important to us. Then we control our life ourselves, not the outside world. Consciously making a choice, we will be able to support our inner fire. And this is the most important thing.
Large stones
Take a sheet of paper and make a list of everything that is most important to you in life. Do not think about the order in which you need to write them down, just quickly write them down as they come to your mind. For example, spiritual life, spouse, children, dream, work, business, health.
By compiling a list, evaluate these values in an importance for you. Now you know what points should be in the first place in your organizer. View your plans for the next week and take the time to each of these “large stones” from your list, appropriating the most important “stones” priorities from one to five. Perhaps when you take more time to business, you need to think about what IP registration is in your city. When we first plan “large stones”, we pay attention to the most important things in our lives. In the end, we feel happy and realized. This approach is very different from what other time planning systems are offering that focus on the deadlines and interests of other people.
Sometimes compromises are necessary – especially if you work at hired work. But if you planned the most important things in advance, it will be much easier for you to explain to the boss why you cannot work late or on weekends. For example, we can say: “I’m busy tonight. If I knew in advance that I would have to stay after work, I would have changed my schedule. But I can come to the office early morning. It will suit you?”Usually the boss is satisfied with this approach – if your explanations are clear and reasonable.
The boss probably will respect you even more, because you demonstrate respect for yourself and your family. But do it with respect. Create situations in which everyone wins.
How, in addition to the approach of “large stones”, you can use the time more efficiently? In the following articles, we will present to your attention several time management techniques that will help you maintain internal fire and realize your dreams and goals.