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Time managment - Pickle jar!

Time management. It is one of the most important thing we can do in our daily life. Rather it is a must do. During the times, when the average time spent with families can be in few hours per week, an additional time spent will be a great relief.

I have over the years tried to use several time management techniques but honestly, have not been successful in following it up.

It takes great deal of discipline to stick to the cause. The biggest hurdle is that it is so inanimate. There is no joy in tagging "Call mother" as "High priority" which could be as same as "pay electricity bills" another "high-priority." Entire life gets 'prioritized'. I have not come across anything substantial which deals with the matters of 'heart' differently from the matters of 'business.' I did come across some techniques which prioritizes the family and business, and further refines the priorities among these. Unfortunately, it gets a bit too complicated.

I have just started on one technique and enjoying it i-- the 'pickle-jar 'technique. It has a nice parable behind it which can be googled. The best quality of this is that it takes out the 'jargons' of management. Keeps it simple. And fun to follow. And quantifiable too!

This basically involves three categorization, which is similar to all the techniques, only in this method it is called Rocks, Stones and Sand. Rocks are the important things to do and the sand the least important things. At the end of the day, count the number of stones that are in the imaginary "pickle-jar." Thats is a pretty fun way of managing time.

one of the places to look at it this: A List
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