Rocks, Pebbles and Sand: Prioritizing Your Life

A simple visualization demonstrating the impact of focusing on the important things in life...or how if you focus on the minutia you'll end up missing out on the important things. This metaphor is applicable to one's personal life as well one's school or career.

What are your big rocks?

[bxrrislayy]

This is one of my favorite analogy's. It is very true how if we take care of the 'big rocks', there is more room than we think. One thing to add - is that there is still room - in this final state, you can still pour in a pitcher of water.

[GinaGreenlee]

Well done. Clear, crisp, easy on the ears, point made in under two minutes. Bravo!

[renaissanceray]

I looove this. Thank you for the video. Will be doing art projects for kids in Hawai'i using glass bottles and sand and will definitely be incorporating this life tip into the lesson. Mahalo from Oahu (:

[RRRRP]

Here cause of an amazing person and mentor, something you may hear lame, but if you paint or sing the complete picture, you understand direction, a tip you can take or leave..

[mikerobbins]

Real Estate Professionals:
BIG ROCKS: phone calls to database, listing appts, buyer appts, closing deals
PEBBLES: writing handwritten notecards, contract timeline documents, priority email
SAND: transaction files, networking/training, meetings, business lunches

[RozakisConstantinos]

The big rocks:
1. Meaning and purpose in life. If your life has no meaning, it sucks.
2. Love and Work. You want to feel loved and needed. So, love people and serve people.
3. Responsibility and maturity. Nobody wants to be around an irresponsible and immature person, unless they are immature themselves.

[Larry]

This is pure genius. I read a book with similar content, and it was pure genius. "The Art of Saying No: Mastering Boundaries for a Fulfilling Life" by Samuel Dawn

[IAMJhonnyBravo]

Absolutely 💯 AMAZING 👏

Can't tell you how much I needed to hear this!

[kau]

1. Health family life
2. Work, school
3. Material possessions

[toksanghphom]

Thank you so much for this.. I've been given to share God's word.. Maybe I can add it as an example to demonstrate life.. ❤

[adityadihingia]

It's a lesson in our last year Moral Science book...

[cakeysvlog]

This is the only thing i want to search not the sand pebbles movie.

When you search sand pebbles you will see a movie titled sand plebbles

[aleuttrel]

this was created from the idea of density, if you fill the jar like it shows, then shake it, you would expect that the heavy big things would end up on the bottom right? but if you do this experiment and shake it, you will find that the small stuff goes to the bottom, and the big rocks rise to the top, all the small stuff finds a way to the bottom, because they are smaller, and you end up with a bottom layer of sand, then the pebbles, with the big rocks on top... try it some day...

[toptenguy]

Good job keeping it short. So many other youtube versions of this drag on over 3-4 minutes lol

[Wow_whee]

I just wanted to see an experiment, but I found this instead. Will… it helped so thx.:)

[majorthebest]

You could pour a beer over top too, always make time to fit in some fun

[annyork]

Hi, I love this anuimation- please can I use it for teaching health care staff?

[emadhussein]

Quite simple & informative. Thanks a lot

[An_IndividualRussian]

this helped me, 5 /5 video, love this vid!

[jasonjason]

The lesson today: Don’t start with the small stuff when you go to a buffet.