Rabbi Moshe Rotberg - One Change Challenge on The Shabbat Show

tell me from your perspective um what one change could do well how this i'll tell you what i i i opened what i thought tell me what you think about baby steps i think when people want to change we want to get to it right away how does baby steps work and change and is there are there torah sources that support this concept you know i gotta tell you i i personally am incredible at making cobbles um i could count on one hand how many i've actually followed through with and accepting things and saying i'm going to change and i'm going to do this and i'm going to do that all these concepts the reason why very often it's not done is because we take on things which is way out of our league it's we're not ready for it and when we do baby steps part of it is is because practically i could stick to it so instead of picking something like oh i don't keep shabbos i'm going to keep travis for the rest of my life that's just ridiculous you cannot go from one point point a to point b right so then and then there's also the psychological part that we were always we feel like failures we're disappointed with ourselves right you know i said i'm going to concentrate the entire schwann s3 i'm going to concentrate on every bra i did that on every blessing there's 18 of them all 18 i'm gonna concentrate on and i realized probably about a day in that maybe i don't think it concentrated on any and i got up in front of the shoe and i said this in front of everybody so the whole congregation guys this is ridiculous we need to take things that we can actually accomplish let's pick one out of 18. so for example if somebody says i want to be more charity and you know what i really should be given so much more money this year i'm going to give 10 000 to charity one last year he gave a hundred bucks to charity it's just that it's not something which is doable so number one it's psychologically it works as well when we're able to accomplish small things and notice them congratulate ourselves and realize that change is possible those small steps become reality and you know there was a there was something that cuts correctly one of the great reviews of all time he said you know that that that it is the positive says that the from the hands of the strong person he says so is our so is our lives when we're young and he explains he says what does that mean when a person shoots a bow and arrow he says it's gonna go you know it's gonna go it's gonna go exactly where you shoot it if you're off by a little bit it's gonna be way off the target if you're going far enough so sometimes small changes changing our perception changing out failings it happens in a small way that can sometimes be the the conduit too much bigger change because our attitude changes when the motive change is something which is possible [Music] you