Time management is difficult to master, but is critical for productivity. One executive coach has a helpful analogy involving rocks, pebbles, and sand that can drive home the point of effective ...

Better scheduling can lead to more productive days, Trent Hamm explains. Better manage your time through his simple analogy of time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive tasks to rocks and sand.

Or the rocks, pebbles, and sand analogy for time management. Only instead of time management, we’ll use social-energy management. You have a large jar.

The post The Flavorful Approach to Time Management: Pickles, Tomatoes, and More ... minuscule items first — sand and water — then you’ll have a harder time fitting in the pebbles and rocks.

The concept is inspired by The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Free Press, 1989) author Stephen Covey’s analogy of filling a jar with big rocks, pebbles, and sand. The idea is to prioritize ...