Today I’m fired up!

Last week was a WATERSHED: an important point of division or transition between two phases and conditions; a ridge or crest line dividing and parting who I was from who I am going to be.

I’m thinking of my life and my business as a bucket; a bucket with room to fill it up with specific selected experiences.

I’m trying to plan; when you go through life without planning, you run the risk of filling up your bucket with little pebbles and grains of sand. The CHALLENGE is that there will be no room for the big rocks.

The Big Rocks are the major things you want to get done in your life. These big rocks normally get pushed back from week to week because we never seem to have time, energy or money to do them — our days fill up too quickly, and before we know it, weeks have turned to years, years have passed and these big rocks are still sitting on the side- untouched, unfulfilled.

Big rocks (fist size) are the milestones in each person’s life (bucket) and the main goals we aim for. The pebbles are the issues that are important but may not be as urgent as the big rocks. The sand represents the day to day issues, smaller challenge sand weekly goals.

The trick is to put the big rocks in first, then the pebbles and then the sand. This will ensure that you hold everything. Only then can ALL things fit. If you put the sand in first, then the pebbles, you will not have room for the big rocks. The big rocks are the key. A full bucket is self actualization and true wealth, but you need the big rocks, the pebbles and sandy grains to fill the bucket.

Metaphors are powerful tools for understanding life concepts; social, political, philosophical and entrepreneurial. As I hunger for opportunity and thirst for growth (personal and business), I ponder on the above metaphor because it evokes a broad array of elements that affect my way of thinking. And it is with this, I can accomplish this evocation of understanding metaphors with a slight hint. It is with this slight hint of the simplest life elements that I develop a better understanding of my PURPOSE.

Onwards. Upwards. Always!

Farai