What are Rocks? The CI staff learned about Rocks after reading Gino Wickman and Tom Bouwer’s book What the Heck is EOS? in our book club.

As Wickman and Bouwer say, Rocks, first popularized by Dr. Stephen R. Covey in his book First Things First, has helped a number of companies manage their workflow. No, we aren’t talking about igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

We’re talking about metaphorical rocks. In this model, you have a glass jar, sand, pebbles, and rocks. The glass jar represents the time you have in one day. The sand are your interruptions, the pebbles are your daily tasks, and the rocks are the paramount things that must get done. If you were to put the sand in the jar first, followed by the pebbles, you would not have room for the rocks.

However, if you put your rocks in first, then the pebbles, and lastly the sand, everything would filter down between each other and fit perfectly. In the end, the idea is to prioritize your rocks, your most important things, or else you will never complete them.

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