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| REST STOP #4: ROCKS IN MY AQUARIUM Directions: Use this reading to guide you as you think about your priorities. What are the most important beliefs in your life? The most important people? The most important things? Do your actions truly reflect what you say you value? Does your aquarium get filled with your big rocks first? ROCKS IN MY AQUARIUM: Perhaps you have read Stephen Covey’s book, First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy1, where he writes about an experiment a professor once performed in his class. He starts with a big aquarium and he fills it with big rocks, until he can’t put anymore more big rocks in it. “Is it full?” he asks his class. “Yes,” they say. Then, with a mischievous grin on his face, the instructor pours in some gravel. “Now is it full?” Their answers are more tentative. “Yes?” Then he pours in sand. This time the aquarium is obviously full to the brim. Not another molecule of sand, gravel or big rocks can fit into it. “Now is it full?” There are some meek “yes’s” and some of the students refuse to answer. Sure enough, the professor produces a pitcher of water and commences to pour a quart into the tank. He doesn’t bother to ask. The tank is now full. But he does ask his wide-eyed students this question. “So, what’s the point?” Continued... |
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