The Pickle Jar Theory is a time management concept that helps visualize the importance of prioritizing tasks. For the Multitasker and Overcommitter, this method helps ensure fous is on the critical work and it gets done first. Imagine your day as an empty pickle jar, and your tasks as items of different sizes:

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• Big rocks: These are your most important, high-priority tasks (e.g., project deadlines, major work tasks).
• Pebbles: These are medium-priority tasks (e.g., emails, routine meetings).
• Sand: These are small, less important activities (e.g., social media, minor chores)

To effectively manage your time, you should first put the "big rocks" into the jar. If you fill the jar with sand and pebbles first, there will be no room left for the rocks. The theory emphasizes that by focusing on your most important tasks first, you can ensure they get completed, and the smaller tasks will naturally fit around them.

Jar - Our daily life and routine

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Rocks - The important tasks in our daily lives

Pebbles - A smaller task with a lower urgency

Sand - Less important tasks and source of distraction