Daily motivation - High Priority High Success

One day, a grand teacher wanted to make an experiment for his students. So he gathered all of the students in a class and began the experiment. Before starting, he prepared big stones, gravels, sand, bottles of water and a round glass aquarium so the students could see inside it.

After a moment, the teacher started the experiment. First of all, he put the big stones into the aquarium until it’s fully loaded. The students paid attention thoroughly.

Then the teacher asked his students, “Is the aquarium full now?” “Yes, Sir!” All of the students replied at a time simultaneously. “No. It hasn’t been full yet.” The teacher said. The students began to wonder.

Then the teacher put the gravels into the aquarium until it’s fully loaded. The gravels could pass the big stones because the hoard of big stones has made large gaps (holes) so that the gravels could fill the gaps and fulfilled the aquarium. The teacher then gave a question once again, “Is the aquarium now full?” The students began to understand and replied, “Not yet.” The teacher said, “You’re right.”

The teacher then took a sack of sand and poured it into the aquarium until it’s fully loaded. The gravels in the aquarium made small gaps (holes) so the sand could still pass them. Then he asked, “Has the aquarium been full or not?” And the students answered, “Yes, Sir.” “You’re all right.” He said.

And then the experiment was finished. The teacher gave another question to his students about what the experiment meant. “Do you all know what the experiment means or what hidden message of this experiment is?” he asked. One of the students raised his hand to give his opinion and said, “When we do our most important work, we can still do our small work later.” Then the teacher said, “Not wrong, but it’s incomplete. Anyone else?” The class was silent and no one answered for long time, then the teacher told all of his students the purpose of his experiment.

The teacher explained, “You all know and see that before the experiment begins, I prepare big stones, gravels, sand and then pour them into a aquarium one by one. Big stones in the experiment symbolize our most important and highest priority, gravels symbolize quite important priority and sand symbolizes our lowest priority. Or we can say that big stones are our first priority, gravels are our second priority and sand is our third priority and so on. From the experiment, I put the big stones first into the aquarium, then gravels and sand at last. In the real life, we must do our most important things or priority that can take us to success. After that, we can still doing our lower priority and enjoy doing other priorities like the gravels and sand that can still fill the aquarium. But what will happen if I put the sand first until the aquarium is full of it is that the stones and gravels can’t be poured anymore because there’s no space left in the aquarium. This is also the same as in the real life. If we often and like to spend most of our valuable time to do our lowest priority or unimportant things that give no benefits to us, we can no longer do our most important things. Often later we’re aware of and regret of what we’ve done, but it’s too late for us. Time will never turn back. So always remember my words, finish first the most important things that can make your life better and more successful and ignore all of the things that can’t bring you to success because if you’ve done your important things, you can still doing other things later day. I hope you all get valuable lesson from what I’ve shown you from the experiment. I also hope that you can change your life better by knowing what your most important priority is and doing it. Do you understand what I mean now?”

Suddenly one of the students raised his hand and asked the teacher, “What about bottles of water over there? What are they for?” The teacher said, “Oh, good question. I’ve forgot already.” He immediately poured the water into the aquarium. He added, “water symbolizes our break time. It means that no matter how busy we are, how much our work to do, or how important our priority is, we can still have little time to enjoy our favorite beverage and refresh our mind.” After a moment, the class was dismissed and the students got invaluable lesson from their teacher.


Message for readers:

The difference between the successful and the unsuccessful people is that the successful always focus and spend most of their time for their important priority. They always do the things that can bring them into great success. They’ll do whatever it takes to reach that. They’re ready to sacrifice their time, money, thought and energy to focus on their priority. They sacrifice their pleasant time with their family, time with their friends, playing time or spare time. They’re willing to work harder and longer than average people do just because they know their priority. They believe that their important priority will take them to the good things they will receive in the future. They also delay doing unimportant things that can’t take them to their dreams.

The unsuccessful people like to spend their life to do the things that isn’t important for them. They aren’t able to differentiate whether what they do is important for them or not. They always do the things that average or unsuccessful people do so their life doesn’t change. And more grievously, they know what the important priority is, they know it will transform their life better, healthier and richer but they still doing the same thing most of people do, they still spend more time for unimportant things. You must know that if we prioritize important things toward success, sooner or later the success will come to us and at that time, we can still have time to do the things that most people do. But if you prioritize useless things, you won’t have enough time to do your important things. Remember, time never waits for you. You must chase the time and time will never turn back. So use the time wisely and spend your time and days with your best work. I think you agree with the proverb “TIME IS MONEY”. Always ask yourself what your priority is and whether what you’re doing now is important for you or not.

Tips: Write down your highest priority,and take a commitment to do and finish them.
1. ______________________________
2. ______________________________
3. ______________________________
4. ______________________________
5. ______________________________


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