Speaker 1: 00:02

Welcome to the one day at a time podcast where we forget about yesterday. We don't worry about tomorrow. It's what are we going to do today? This all matters because you've only ever had or will ever have the fantastic twenty four hours a day you're about to embark on. So hopefully this episode is going to give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life.

Speaker 1: 00:25

And remember, all it takes is one day at a time.

Speaker 2: 00:31

Seneca talks about us and he says something that's very beautiful. I read it and I thought this could have been written by a modern psychologist. Seneca says that animals like deer are grazing, they see a predator, they freak out, they defecate, they run away in anxiety. But then once the predator's gone, they return to grazing as if nothing had happened. And he says, but human beings, if that was you or me, we'd carry on worrying about it for days, weeks, months, maybe years afterwards.

Speaker 2: 01:00

We worry about things that haven't even happened yet, hypothetically in the future, and we ruminate about things that happened decades ago in the past. Seneca says our greatest gift, our ability to reason is also our greatest burden. Like it's a double edged sword. He's absolutely right about that. And there are many things we can do about that.

Speaker 2: 01:25

But one is just remaining grounded in the present moment, because worry is all about the future. Lot of depressive thinking morbid rumination is all about the past. It's not going to cure every problem, but many problems like we know actually that pathological worrying can be helped a lot by people just becoming more centred and grounded in the present moment. When you worry, you ruminate, you forget about the here and now and you get lost in thought, like projecting into the past or into the future. And that's one reason why it's so important to become grounded here and now.

Speaker 2: 02:03

And that's where your locus of control is. You don't have any control in the future. You don't have any control over the past. Your sphere of control, the buttons you press, levers you pull are located right here, now in the present moment. And so when you're not paying attention to that, it's like taking your hands off the steering wheel in your car, you need to watch what you're doing in the present moment in order to put your hands back in the steering wheel and actually remain in control of your own destiny.

Speaker 1: 02:34

And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Scott Fleer. Hopefully you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, and I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 02:50

I don't want you to think about yesterday. I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want you to think about going to another website. What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today. Ground yourself today.

Speaker 1: 03:04

Follow the one day at a time philosophy, and your life will change.