One Thing At A Time - R. Meir Simcha Sperling - TorahAnytime.com

So many times in life, we focus on so many things that are going on all at the same time. Our problems, our pain, our bills, our worries, it's all just sitting on our shoulders at the exact same time. So we lose out in life instead of dealing with one thing at a time and taking breaks in the middle and then focusing on what's now and then what's the next thing that I have to do. And in if you have to pay a bill now, so now it's time to pay a bill, fine. If if you're in pain right now, fine. take care of your pain, whatever. There are times for that, but you can't let all of it creep in at the same time always. If you deal with things slowly, you put each thing where it's supposed to go in its own compartment and then you take the time to focus on each thing that has to be done and it's never overcrowded, overburdened, then everything changes. You know, instead of having the past, the future, the issues, the fears, the worries, this is where depression comes from. This is where anxiety comes from. This is why in meditation, they're always focused on the breath. They always try to bring you back to the breath, the present moment. You ever wonder why they focus on the breath and not on like the position of where your knee is and your head and your, you know, and and what you think? Always focus on the breath. Why the breath? And the answer is that it's the only thing that you can never live on a past breath or a future breath. You can only live on the breath that's now. So they try to get you into that focus of live in the present moment. That's why it's called a present, right? It's called a gift. It's a gift because it's the present. It's the present. Present's a gift. The idea of mindfulness and why this is so important for what we're discussing is first of all if you think your life is so bad and you are struggling if you just compartmentalize things and you take things one thing at a time it's not as bad as you think and then you won't have to jump to other people's lives you won't have to jump to Instagram to escape everything you won't have to jump to Tik Tok and just scroll and movies let me just I need to escape my life because everything is in order everything is in a seder yeah there are things that are hard true there are challenges that we have But it's all done in the right time in the right place. This is also extremely crucial for fighting the Sahara in regards to all these different things that we're going to be talking about. Shmir sayris everything everything clicking on things scrolling on things searching for things. You don't only live inside your own life like we've been saying in the first few sharim but rather you also live in the moment in your own life. So I am living in my life but I'm living only today only right now. You don't put the challenge of a lifetime in front of you every single time you have an assignment.