Episode 120 - I Choose
A phone call while checking the stock market. A meeting while answering texts. Learning while thinking about business. Davening while the mind goes everywhere else.
We tell ourselves it's multitasking. But maybe we’re not doing more. Maybe we’re choosing less.
In this episode, Reuven and Zacharia take on one of the most ordinary struggles of modern life: focus. But the conversation quickly moves deeper. From boring meetings to Chitas, from machshavos zaros in davening to Sefiras HaOmer, to David Goggins, and from the Rebbe’s total presence in yechidus — the question becomes sharper:
Which part of me is actually showing up?
Maybe the first step toward focus is not discipline. Maybe it’s honesty.
Not “I have to.”
Not “I should.”
But the simple, radical words:
I choose.
Because when the inner desire — the pnimiyus haratzon — is present, even the details stop being boring. And when it isn’t, even holy things can become background noise.
What would change tomorrow if, before every call, every meeting, every seder, every moment of davening, we stopped and said:
I choose to be here.