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Object Lesson: Fitting More Into The Jar

Object lesson on prioritizing the main things: An expert on time management was speaking to a group of highly motivated overachievers, and announced a quiz. He pulls out a large, wide-mouthed jar and sets it before them. Next, he places about a dozen fist-sized rocks, one at a time, into the jar, until no more will fit. ?Is it full?? he asks. ?Yes,? responds the class. ?Oh really?? he asks. So he reaches under the table and produces a bucket of gravel, which he manages to work down into the spaces between the larger rocks. ?Is it full now?? he asks. Wizening up, one answers, ?Probably not.? Sure enough, he reaches under the table and produces a bucket of sand, which he pours into the empty spaces. ?Is it full now?? he asks. ?No!? reply the students confidently. So he takes a pitcher of water and fills it to the brim. Then he asks, ?What is my point?? One responds with the obvious connection that a high achiever would make. ?The point is,? he said,? no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit some more things into it!? ?No,? the speaker replied, ?that?s not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is: If you don?t put the big rocks in first, you?ll never get them in at all.? (Came over the internet. Don?t know source.) So evaluate what is most important in your life, and schedule that in first, or you might find yourself consumed with the tyranny of the urgent, while neglecting what is most important. What are the big rocks, the things you should put into your jar first?

Carey Redeems the Time Till the End

On using your retirement well? William Carey, the father of modern missions, was teaching at a British sponsored university in India, when England abolished the professorships. Although this would have been a perfect excuse to retire from ministry, since he was 71 years old, he instead threw himself into teaching divinity and natural history at another school in India. And then he started another revision of the New Testament he had translated into Bengali. He finally finished the revision and spent his remaining days reading the proofs, finally dying with the new edition of the Bengali New Testament in his hand. (William Carey, by Finnie, pp. 145,152) ? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

Every Second Has a Period After It

Every second has a period after it. You can't live it over again. (From Dan Dehaan)

Punctuality

Punctuality is showing high esteem for other people and their time. (Bill Gothard seminar)

Devil Can Make You Busy

"If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy."

An 86-year-old with 10 year goals

Christian educator Howard Hendricks shared of spunky old lady who refused to stop growing. He remembers a party, where people were standing around making small talk and she quickly tired of it all. So she comes up to him and asks, "Hendricks, what are the best five books you have read lately? Let's not bore each other. Let's discuss something, or argue." I believe it was on her 86th birthday that she died in her sleep. The lady's daughter asked Hendricks to come to the house, wanting to show him something. It seems that before she went to bed that last night, she had written out her goals for what she wanted to accomplish in the next ten years. That's the way I want to go - not coasting to a stop, but pressing on toward the goal. ? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

Etymology of Amuse

The word "amuse" is a combination of two words, "a" meaning "not" and "muse" which means "thinking." We can't gain wisdom while devoting the enormous amounts of time to amusement that our contemporaries enjoy. ? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

It Grew in My Mouth

I didn?t bite off more than I could chew -- it just grew in my mouth. -- Dr. Robert Ballard

Lewis on Planning

The greatest thing is to be found at one?s post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. -- C. S. Lewis

Cats Take Messages

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. -- Mary Bly

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