I’ve had an aha!

It’s only a small leap from finding enough time to do it all – a lifelong challenge for me – to finding creative ways to rightsize my stuff!  No wonder I’m intrigued with rightsizing!

I’ve always loved the metaphor Stephen Covey offers (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) on doing the big things first.  You know the one.  Put the big rocks in the jar first, then fit the pebbles and sand around them.

I was gob-smacked yesterday by another jar story – this one from a meditation in Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic. This one, called “You Can’t Always (Be) Get(ting) What You Want,” played off wisdom from the Stoic phiosopher Epictetus. He’d observed that children get their hands stuck in narrow goody jars when they grab too many treats at once.  To get unstuck, they needed to let go of a few.

It seems I have a lot to learn from jars.  Let go of doing too much, holding on to too much!  Time and space aren’t so different.