Big Stones

Looking for Stones

One of the first stories I heard from RE/MAX Prestige’s team coach went like this:

There was a teacher. One day he was standing in front of his class, and pulled a huge jar from under the counter. He began to fill it with large stones. When he had piled every stone into the jar, it was filled to the top.

He asked the class, “Is this jar full?” Of course, they answered yes.

The teacher then proceeded to add small stones that he had kept hidden under the counter. The class watched as a surprising amount of these filled the spaces between the larger stones. “How about now? Is my jar full yet?” he asked them.

Then the teacher brought up a watering can and proceeded to empty most of the contents into the jar.

At this point, we were all thinking that this implied that whenever you complain that you are busy- you can always find more time, and indeed I have heard the parable told like that. Our coach went one step further, though.

He said, “You are probably thinking that what I am going to tell you is there is always more time. But what I am trying to tell you is everything wouldn’t have fit into the jar if the big stones hadn’t gone in first.”

I was talking online with a friend, and he said that it was important to make time- in a good sense.  So I guess, for me, this means that I have to remember to hand some of these stones to my eleven year old and let her place them in my jar, or skip them across the water. It probably means a lot of things for me that I do not usually do.

So this morning I made a list of my big stones for the day. If you can’t reach me, you know where to find me.

You can spend all your love making time

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