Ten Essential Time Management Tips - by Dumb Little Man
This is the “big rocks first” technique of scheduling your three most important tasks into your day and letting everything else flow around them.In case you’ve not come across the “rocks” analogy before, it goes like this:
You’re given a jar, three large rocks, a handful of pebbles and some sand. If you pour the sand and pebbles into the jar first, there won’t be room to force the rocks into it – but if you put the rocks in first, the pebbles can flow around the rocks, then the sand can be poured in to fill the gaps.
This works!