Making Time

Recently I was at a stake conference where our stake president had us think about the most important things in our lives.

He said “if we are too busy for the most important things in our lives then we are too busy”

All of us are working part time as well as going to school while trying to live a social life and so time can be a scarcity.

I am not perfect at time management, and it is always something that I am trying to improve on. When my stake president mentioned we can be too busy it made me think of if there were any things in my life that I might have been neglecting.

President Oaks once gave a famous talk titled “Good, Better, Best”. I realized that there may have been some good things that I was doing but there may be some of the best things I could be focusing on.

Personally, I want to be better at making time for dates with my wife. Whether it be going out to eat or going bowling or just going for a small picnic, time spent where we can just talk is very important to us. There are some things that I may need to sacrifice to make sure I have time to spend with my wife.

It’s like this lovely picture you see here of the jar with rocks and sand. In primary I was taught that as you put the sand first then the rocks everything doesn’t fit, but if you put the rocks first then the sand then everything fits.

As I think of what my priorities are I am trying to put the most important things first and then the things that aren’t the most important I am fitting in around them.

I am trying every day to be a little better so that I am never too busy for the most important things.