B: Big Rocks
Prioritize What Truly Matters
The concept of "Big Rocks" comes from the famous time management demonstration where rocks, gravel, sand, and water represent tasks of different importance. If you don't put the big rocks in first, they won't fit later.
In the Focus and Finish program, Big Rocks represent the tasks that genuinely alter your timeline and propel you toward meaningful progress. These are not merely urgent tasks, but important ones that create long-term impact.
This action is guided by the yogic principle of Vyavasayatmika Buddhi (resolute one-pointedness), teaching you to approach your priorities with unwavering determination and focus. By identifying and prioritizing your Big Rocks, you ensure that what matters most receives your best energy and attention.
Key Practice:
The program teaches you to identify your Big Rocks at the beginning of each week, schedule them in your calendar first, and approach them with resolute intention.
A: Attention
Cultivate Calm-Focus
In a world designed to capture and monetize your attention, the ability to focus deeply is increasingly rare and valuable. The Attention action teaches you to remove distractions and cultivate what the program calls "calm-focus"—a state where your mind is both relaxed and highly engaged.
This action draws from the yogic practice of Dhyana (meditation), where you learn to direct your awareness with precision while maintaining a state of ease. Like Lionel Messi who walks 85% of the time on the soccer field but is completely present and ready to act decisively at the perfect moment, you learn to conserve mental energy while maintaining complete awareness.
Key Practice:
The program teaches techniques for catching and releasing distracting thoughts, creating distraction-free environments, and gradually extending your periods of deep focus.
T: Time Mastery
Design Your Day with Intention
Time Mastery transforms how you relate to your calendar, teaching you to treat time as sacred and design your day with intention, purpose, and rhythm. Your calendar becomes what the program calls a "Kala Yantra"—a magic machine that creates your future by harnessing time in the present.
This action helps you move from reactive scheduling to proactive design, ensuring that your time allocation reflects your priorities. Through practices like timeboxing and creating reflection buffers between activities, you learn to align your schedule with what matters most.
Key Practice:
The program teaches you to review your calendar weekly, identify and eliminate "phantom meetings," and create strategic time blocks for different types of work based on your natural energy patterns.
H: Habits
Build Life-Changing Routines
The Habits action helps you build routines that sustain momentum effortlessly and reduce decision fatigue. Drawing from the yogic concept of Sanskara (impressions that influence future behavior), this action teaches that consistent small actions create grooves in your consciousness that make future similar actions easier.
By converting daily choices into rules and policies, you automate excellence and create consistency in how you show up every day. This frees mental energy for creative work while ensuring that supportive practices become second nature.
Key Practice:
The program teaches you to identify keystone habits, create visual chains of consistent behavior, and build accountability systems that support lasting change.
E: Energy Flow
Align with Your Natural Rhythms
The Energy Flow action helps you manage your energy rather than just your time, teaching you to align tasks with your natural cycles to channel passion into focused action. Drawing from the yogic understanding of Prana (life force) and Vayu (energy currents), this action helps you work with rather than against your natural energy patterns.
Through practices like energy mapping, circadian alignment, and strategic task scheduling, you learn to work at peak performance without burnout. By matching different types of work to your energy states throughout the day, you maximize both productivity and sustainability.
Key Practice:
The program teaches you to track your energy patterns, identify your personal peak performance windows, and schedule different types of tasks accordingly.
How the BATHE Framework Creates the Good Space
When these five actions work together, they create the conditions for experiencing Sukha (the Good Space) and Ananda (joy) in your work:
- Big Rocks ensure that your efforts are directed toward what truly matters (Purpose/Dharma)
- Attention helps you cultivate the mental clarity needed for deep work (Clarity/Chitta Shuddhi)
- Time Mastery aligns your calendar with your priorities and natural cycles (Rhythm/Rta)
- Habits build consistent practices that support your goals without depleting willpower
- Energy Flow helps you tap into and direct your natural vitality (Life Force/Prana)
Together, these actions transform work from a source of stress into a source of joy—a place where effort feels effortless because it's connected to something bigger than yourself.