
Reminds me of a joke I heard once – imagine a large glass jar which you then fill with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter. The jar is full, right? But then you pour small pebbles into the jar, and they fill the spaces between the rocks. Again, the jar seems full. But then you pour sand into the jar, and that fills up everything else. The moral of this is that the jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, and your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. The rest is just sand.
But then...
You take a pint of beer and pour that into the jar – proving that now matter how full your life is, there’s always room for beer.