TIME, your family and more

I haven’t come across anyone asking me, what did you buy with your TIME today? We always come across a very common question how did you spent your TIME today. We have always considered TIME for spending and not for buying. No one ever told me that he spent one hour in the temple and bought peace of mind. There was no buying of fatigue and headache by spending one hour in traffic jam. We keep spending TIME without much consideration. Ever since we are born we have been spending TIME and that’s because TIME is for one-way trading. We only spend TIME, we can’t buy TIME. We are not sure how much TIME we have yet we keep spending. For mortals TIME is not eternal, there are limitations yet we spend TIME as if it’s limitless. We spend TIME on eating, drinking, sleeping, playing, working, on our hobbies, on our vices. It’s just spend, spend and spend. If TIME is limited then we must spend it wisely. I have a story that explains this.

The story goes like this…….

A professor walks in the classroom with an empty jar of may be one liter capacity. He places few golf balls in the jar till the top and ask the students if the jar is full. Yes is the reply from the class. The professor then pours few pebbles in the jar till the pebbles occupy the empty spaces between the golf balls. Shakes the jar little to see if more pebbles can be accommodated? He again questions the class ‘is the jar full’. Yes, the class roars loudly. The professor then picks up some sand and pours in jar, occasionally tapping the jar to get sand settled in all available space. The jar is now almost full.

Professor explains that this jar is like your life. The golf balls are the important things, your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions. And if everything else is lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. And the sand is everything else, insignificant small stuff.

In your life you need to manage golf balls. Fill the jar with golf balls. If you fill the jar with pebbles and sand, then there will be no space for the golf balls. You have to spend time on golf balls – your family, your spouse, your children, your parent, your grandparents, your friends, your passion and your health. You have to wisely spend your TIME. If you spend TIME on sand and pebbles then you will never have room for golf balls that are important to you.

Set your priorities and spend TIME wisely.