I mention in my last post about the lack of time I have for actually making money. It was meant to be a tongue in cheek post, but after a while it started making more sense to me. It seems that lately I have not had enough time to do those things that are most important to me. I get caught up in the small and mundane things in the day and by the time I crawl to bed, I can’t figure out whether I have accomplished what I set out to do or if I accomplished anything at all.
I came across an article written a while back by the author of Blog Marketing, Jeremy Wright. He writes about the Pickle Jar Theory. I have heard this theory before as it relates to being a parent. Sort of a “don’t sweat the small stuff theory”. Suddenly, things began to come into focus for me. I need to make sure I list those things that are a priority in the day, and make sure those are done before I tackle the not so big things, until I finally reach the mundane that has no priority. The problem for me is prioritizing. What are the big things and what are the little things? Every task at hand seems to be a big thing that must go into my pickle jar first.
Jeremy it was an inspiring article that help me realize my time management problem and my needs. Now if you could just write that article on prioritizing to help me decide what big things don’t get done today.
Glad to help. I don’t use it anymore, but it’s a very “zen” way of looking at time management: only schedule in the big things, and let the small things flow over and through you type of thing
Everything Jeremy says sounds Zen sometimes. Isn’t that interesting?