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053 Big Rocks & Glass Balls
Outside of sounding like a bad rock band, this week’s title is a combination of metaphors about making our health a priority, we hope simply having the discussion will paint a different picture this time around. Most people are well intended and most people don’t intend on one day waking up and finding themselves overwhelmed with little to no wiggle room for error.
As the responsibilities begin to pile on, as we continue to say “yes” to events, tasks, and projects for ourselves and our families, the tendency is to let some of the important variables of our lives go. We all know life gets more challenging without our health, and yet, many go days, weeks, months, and years without a second thought.
After all, we’re busy, who has time to go to the gym?
The danger in that thinking, the thinking that “going to the gym” is an expense, either in the form of our time or in our resources, is we’re reducing our health to a trip to a gym when we know it’s much more, it’s one of our life’s “glass balls.”
What happens if you’re juggling a glass ball and drop it? Odds are, it would crack or worse yet break, knowing that, perhaps that’s the ball we should be keeping an eye on and let one of those “rubber ones” drop instead. The rubber balls represent things that, while they may seem important, they’re not urgent. The happy hours with the friends will still be there. Our favorite shows will still be there. But will our heath?
Another example depicts these “glass balls” as “Big Rocks.”
Imagine an empty box, now imagine we have 4 big rocks and a whole bunch of little rocks surrounding it. The task is to fill the box with all the rocks. Now if you begin the process by filling it up with nothing but smaller rocks, over time what you’ll notice is less and less room overall. Once you see this “issue” you’d no doubt begin to fill the remaining space with the big ones, only to find out there’s no room.
So, maybe the box is too small. Maybe the box isn’t special enough and we need a new one. Or perhaps we should begin with the big rocks first when the box has more room THEN begin pouring in the smaller ones. Again, the “Big Rocks” represent our health, our wellness, our family, and all the really important aspects of our lives. The smaller ones are of course all the other “stuff.”
So where should you start? A good first place to start is by identifying what the “big rocks” or “glass balls” of your life are? Once we know that, that’s where our attention needs to be.
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By Cross-eyed Bear BrandsOutside of sounding like a bad rock band, this week’s title is a combination of metaphors about making our health a priority, we hope simply having the discussion will paint a different picture this time around. Most people are well intended and most people don’t intend on one day waking up and finding themselves overwhelmed with little to no wiggle room for error.
As the responsibilities begin to pile on, as we continue to say “yes” to events, tasks, and projects for ourselves and our families, the tendency is to let some of the important variables of our lives go. We all know life gets more challenging without our health, and yet, many go days, weeks, months, and years without a second thought.
After all, we’re busy, who has time to go to the gym?
The danger in that thinking, the thinking that “going to the gym” is an expense, either in the form of our time or in our resources, is we’re reducing our health to a trip to a gym when we know it’s much more, it’s one of our life’s “glass balls.”
What happens if you’re juggling a glass ball and drop it? Odds are, it would crack or worse yet break, knowing that, perhaps that’s the ball we should be keeping an eye on and let one of those “rubber ones” drop instead. The rubber balls represent things that, while they may seem important, they’re not urgent. The happy hours with the friends will still be there. Our favorite shows will still be there. But will our heath?
Another example depicts these “glass balls” as “Big Rocks.”
Imagine an empty box, now imagine we have 4 big rocks and a whole bunch of little rocks surrounding it. The task is to fill the box with all the rocks. Now if you begin the process by filling it up with nothing but smaller rocks, over time what you’ll notice is less and less room overall. Once you see this “issue” you’d no doubt begin to fill the remaining space with the big ones, only to find out there’s no room.
So, maybe the box is too small. Maybe the box isn’t special enough and we need a new one. Or perhaps we should begin with the big rocks first when the box has more room THEN begin pouring in the smaller ones. Again, the “Big Rocks” represent our health, our wellness, our family, and all the really important aspects of our lives. The smaller ones are of course all the other “stuff.”
So where should you start? A good first place to start is by identifying what the “big rocks” or “glass balls” of your life are? Once we know that, that’s where our attention needs to be.