When thinking of your day as a pickle jar, imagine it full of three things: Rocks, pebbles, and sand. These represent your daily responsibilities, but as you can see, they’re different sizes.

Start by identifying your rocks, your smaller pebbles, your sand and your water. Then, plan out how to structure your day to fit each element in, prioritising the bigger elements in your jar.” ...

The concept is inspired by The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Free Press, 1989) author Stephen Covey’s analogy of filling a jar with big rocks, pebbles, and sand. The idea is to prioritize ...

He shakes the jar until the pebbles settle in all the ... "If we had put the sand in first, would there have been any room for the big rocks?" It's an old story that was popularized in part ...