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from your time means defining your priorities in life,
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your professional priorities,
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and allow them the time of your choice.
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Our day is so often filled with emergencies and demands that we rarely have the
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chance to get our heads out of the
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grindstone and ask ourselves an essential question.
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What are my priorities?
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What do I want to invest my time on first?
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In this video we will see that we have a much greater amount of time than we think,
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and that just like the history of the old NSPA professor,
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we just need to define our personal and professional big rocks.
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But before we get started,
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let's hunt down some stereotypes.
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It's not true that we don't have enough time.
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Picture yourself working 45 hours a week
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and that you sleep 7 hours a night.
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You have 67 spare hours per week.
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don't you think?
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More than the time you spend at work.
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That's more than 9 hours 30 minutes a day outside of work.
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perhaps you spend a certain amount of hours on public transport,
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but that doesn't have to be lost time.
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You can always make phone calls,
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listen to podcasts,
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Time is a choice.
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We can't say I don't have the time,
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but it's not my priority or it's not my top priority.
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an American author and speaker on time management,
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gave a TED talk about the situation of a woman she knew.
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This woman suffered water damage in the middle of the week.
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She had to deal with the flood by taking several actions,
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finding a plumber,
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replacing her water heater,
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cleaning her house,
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changing her carpet.
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This event cost her 7 hours of her week.
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If somebody had asked her at the beginning of the week
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if she could spare 7 hours doing her favorite leisure activity,
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she would have replied,
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can't you see how busy I am?
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And yet she could spare 7 hours in her week.
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She found this time because the water damage became a major priority for her,
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Our contemporary world is highly demanding an overabundance of information,
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an overabundance of solicitation.
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We can no longer afford to say yes to everything that is offered to us.
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We need to make choices.
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If our child is very ill,
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we will find time for him.
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If you are offered $50,000 for a simple one day
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task on the sole condition that you do it immediately,
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chances are that you will find that day.
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if our house is flooded,
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we will find time for it as well.
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So here's a piece of advice.
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Manage your priorities,
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your real priorities,
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like you would manage a flooding.
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Top of the list.
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Here is a story that I got from the training organization Dinnai.
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And that you can easily find on the internet in written format or even in video.
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One day an old professor from the National
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School of Public Administration NSPA was hired to
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conduct a training on effective time planning to
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a group of about 15 brilliant students.
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This course was one of the 5 workshops of their day of training.
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The old teacher had only one hour to present his subject.
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Standing in front of the class of elite
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who were ready to write down everything the expert was about to teach,
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the old teacher looked at them
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one by one slowly and said,
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We are going to conduct an experiment.
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From under the desk that separated him from his students,
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the old teacher took out a huge 1 gallon mason jar,
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a glass jar of more than 4 L,
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and placed it delicately in front of him.
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Then he took out about a dozen rocks about the
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size of tennis balls and gently placed them one by one
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into the large jar.
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When the jar was filled to the brim and it was impossible to add another stone,
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he slowly looked up at his students and asked,
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Is the jar full?
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They all answered,
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He waited a few seconds and added,
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He then leaned again and pulled out a
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container filled with gravel from under his desk.
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Meticulously he poured the gravel
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onto the big rocks,
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then slightly stirred the jar.
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The pieces of gravel seeped in between the rocks all the way to the bottom of the jar.
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The old professor looked up at his audience and asked again,
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Is this jar full?
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the smart students were starting to understand his scheme.
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One of them answered,
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said the old professor.
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He bent down again,
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and this time he pulled out a pot of sand from under the desk.
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He carefully poured the sand into the jar.
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The sand went to fill up the spaces between the big rocks and the gravel.
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Once again he asked,
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Is this jar full?
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without hesitation and in unison,
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the smart students replied,
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said the old professor,
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and as they expected,
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he grabbed the pitcher of water on the desk and filled the jar to the brim.
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The old professor then looked up at this group and asked,
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What big truth does this experiment prove?
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The boldest of the students thinking about the title of the course replied,
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it shows that even when we think our schedule is completely full,
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if we really want to,
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we can add more appointments,
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more things to do.
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said the old teacher,
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The big truth that this experiment proves is the following.
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If we don't put the big rocks in first,
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we will never be able to make them all fit later.
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There was a deep silence as everyone became aware of the evidence of these words.
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The old teacher then said,
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what are the big rocks in your life,
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defending a cause,
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taking your time,
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or something else?
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What you should keep in mind
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is how important it is to put your big rocks first in your life,
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or else you risk
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not succeeding in life.
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If you prioritize minor problems,
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You will fill your life with minor problems,
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and you will not have enough precious time to
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devote to the important elements of your life.
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don't forget to ask yourself,
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what are the big rocks in my life.
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place them into the jar life first.
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The old professor greeted his audience with a
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friendly wave and slowly left the room.
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what are the big rocks in our lives,
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those we choose for this year.
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To answer this question,
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I invite you to define your life areas first.
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What are the main areas of your life?
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Define 3 to 6 areas,
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social relations,
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personal development,
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social commitment,
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your own main areas.
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If you can't find these areas,
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choose at least 3,
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establish the amount of time allocated to each of them.
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Make a pie chart.
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Count your weekly work hours if necessary,
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I urge you to pause this video for 5 minutes,
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5 minutes only to make your pie chart.
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you have your pie chart in front of you.
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How are you feeling?
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In which areas would you like to spend more time this
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year and what activities are you willing to cut back on?
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Which rocks do you want to put right away in your jar?
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Be precise on the big ones.
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How many hours per week
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from the 67 hours you have left after counting work and sleep?
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Do you want to invest in these priorities?
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Do the same for your professional life.
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Which projects or files are for you the big rocks of this year?
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Those which will always be a priority,
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something to put first
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before diving into a task,
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always ask yourself this question.
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Am I working on one of my big rocks,
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one of my top priorities,
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or am I stirring gravel or worse,
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In order to establish your big rock of the year,
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here's another tip
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Write the annual performance review of the upcoming year.
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What are the 3 to 5 achievements that prove to
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you that you made this professional year a successful one?
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I invite you to pause the video again
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to answer this question.
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What are the 3 to 5 accomplishments that
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have made this professional year a successful one?
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Same question goes for your personal life.
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What are the 3 to 5 accomplishments that have made this year an incredible year?
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You can also put 3 to 5 rocks in a jar on your desk
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and or in your living room.
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Which will remind you of the old teacher's wisdom
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and your own priorities.
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