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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome to jump in with Jonathan. I am
your host, d Pastor Jonathan Smith. I want to say
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Apple podcast, however you find your podcast, Thank you so
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Each and every week, as we look into our weeks
so far, we've got so much going on in the world.
We've got so much going on in our churches, We've
got so much going on all around us each and
every day. So when I think about all of these
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things going on, we've got distractions from the news. We
got distractions from the stock market. We've got distractions from
our family, we got distractions in the church, we've got
distractions at work. We've got distractions on every corner that
you and I turn. And one thing that you and
I need to do is we need to learn to
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stay focused. Focus is something that you and I need
to take note of. Let me encourage you take one
hour a day. Put your phone to the side, put
it on, do not disturb, turn off your TV, turn
off your computer, turn off everything. Maybe not for an hour,
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Just do fifteen minutes a day and just sit in
the peace and quiet for fifteen minutes a day. That's
all I would ask you to do. For fifteen minutes
a day, do nothing but sit in the quiet, don't
and think about and clear your mind of everything that
is going on. Just disconnect for fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes
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may not seem like a long time, but it is
the difference of being distracted and being focused. Today we've
got lots of different people doing lot take lots of
different medications. We've got people doing lots of different things
because they're distracted, they're depressed, they're discouraged, they're tired of
everything going on around them. But when you talk to
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them and ask them, what do you do for a
long time? What do you do for fifteen minutes a day?
Could you take fifteen minutes a day and disconnect from
your phone, turn off your laptop or iPad, or turn
off your TV, just for fifteen minutes and sit in
the peace and quiet and just disconnect. It gives you
a time to regroup. It gives you a time to prioritize,
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It gives you a time to focus. It gives you
a time to rejuvenate your brain and reset yourself and say,
you know what, that wasn't so bad fifteen minutes. You know,
that felt good not to look at my phone for
fifteen minutes. That felt good, not to be on social
media for fifteen minutes. That felt good, not to be
on my computer for fifteen minutes. That felt good not
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here in bad news for fifteen to twenty minutes. That
felt really good not being distracted for fifteen minutes. And
the first couple of times that you do this, you're
going to be like, oh my god, is the fifteen
minutes past yet? And you'll look down it's only been
three minutes, only been four minutes, only been five minutes,
and you're like, man, I wonder what's going on. But
then when you get used to having that fifteen minute
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a day segment of being able to reset your mind
and to reset your brain, you will look forward to
that fifteen minutes and that fifteen minutes will seem like
once you get to where you do it each and
every day, that fifteen minutes will seem like that it
has been an eternity for you. You say, Jonathan, do
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you do it? I do it at least once a week.
Mowing the yard is one of my biggest one of
my biggest places of what I call my mental therapy.
I get on my mower, I put my phone on,
do not disturb, I put a set of headphones on
and I will play music and I won't think about
anything else but the music went on around me and
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getting my yard mode weed eat it and we'd kill
her done. And I will not look at my phone
for the entire time that I'm on my mower, the
entire time I'm weed eating, the entire time that I'm
spraying we killer or whatever I'm doing, I will not
look at my phone. And I use that as a
time to disconnect from everything in social media. And I
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use that time to disconnect from the world around me,
and I take some time just to think for myself,
to refocus, to restore my mind from having a hard
week their night. There are evenings that I will see
it for ten to fifteen minutes by myself and not
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have the TV on, not have anything on on my phone,
and just sit there and reboot my mind, because my
mind goes crazy sometimes it seems like they're a million
things running through my mind. I would do two podcasts.
I pastor at church. I help manage social media for people,
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I help run a company. I do all of these
different things, and it seems so frustrating and so aggravating
sometimes when my phone rings, when my emails go off,
when my messenger on Facebook goes off, or WhatsApp or
Telegram or however goes off, or get emails about the podcast,
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or somebody asking me, Hey, what's your next podcast going
to be about? And I try all of these different
things and keeping my mind clear, and then I get
so distracted. And one of the things that I've learned
that really distracts me the most is like Facebook, I
will go to get on my email to clean my
email out. I've got good about my email. I check
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my email once a day twice at most. Now we're
used to every time I got a notification on my email.
And actually I turned my email notifications off on my
phone to help give me a clearer mind throughout the
day so I do not feel ass stressed out. So
I go through my email once today, and sometimes I
find myself going through my email and then I open
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up Facebook, then I open up TikTok, then I open
up Snapchat, then I open up X, and then I
open up Instagram, and then I find myself chasing myself
all down through all these tunnels of all these different media,
all these social media outlets, when all I was doing
was checking my email. And that's why I turned my
email notifications off, is because it helped me throughout the
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day not to be on social media so much. You see,
but you post a lot. Ninety five percent of what
I post is scheduled. So in order to manage my
social media the way it needs to be managed, I
schedule my posts to come out throughout the day so
that I'm not on Facebook, so that I'm not on Instagram,
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so that I'm not on X multiple hours a day.
I enjoy doing it that way. Yes, sometimes I feel
like that I fall behind on what's going on around
me or somebody else send something to me and say, hey,
did you see this on Facebook? Did you see that
on Facebook? Or did you see this on X? Did
you see this on Instagram? Did you see this on TikTok?
And I'm like, yeah, I seen it when I sit
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down and finally went through everything to see what's happening
in the day's events. But we are getting a group
of young people that cannot function without their phone. They
cannot function without Internet, they cannot function without these things
because they've become addicted to social media. They've become addicted
to their phone. They've become addicted to wanting to be popular,
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wanting to be famous, wanting to know what's going on
in the world each and every second. And through their
addiction process to social media, to their phone, through all
of these different things, they have run up their anxiety.
They have maxed out their depression, they have become bitter,
They have not become better. They cannot figure out anything
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for themselves. For example, this morning, I heard I heard
somebody say if it wasn't for chat GPT, I wouldn't
know what to do. And I was like what, And they'say, like,
if I go into a store and there's twenty types
of glue, I take a picture and say, hey, what
type of glue do I need, instead of taking the
time to read the instructions. Well, that's good and all,
but you are trusting on artificial intelligence to give you
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a correct answer for something that is real. Unfortunately, today
we have a lot of people to fit depending on
AI to get them through real life. You don't need
AI to get through real life. You need real people,
real family, real communication from other people to get through life.
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And when you receive the wrong information because you're trusting
sources like AI, You're trusting Facebook, you're trusting Insidiogram, you're
trusting X, You're trusting TikTok for your news source, your
movie source, all these things around you. You are trusting
somebody to upload the truth instead of seeking it out
for yourself. That is dangerous. The Bible tells us, and
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I don't mean to go into a sermon here, but
the Bible tells us to study to show thyselves approved.
A workman needeth not to be ashamed, but rightly dividing
the word of truth. I understand that's talking about the
Word of God, but that talks about that can also
apply to many other areas in our life. I don't
need AI to tell me what sermon to preach on Sunday.
I don't need AI to tell me what songs that
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I need to listen to each and every day. I
don't need AI to tell me what type of glue
I need to use. Yes, AI is good, And I'm
not knocking like Google, I'm not knocking chat, GPT, I'm
not knocking social media. But what I'm saying is when
you are depending on these things to get you through
each and every day, then you are depending on the
wrong source. God never intended for you to be addicted
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to social media. We talk about addictions to drugs, we
talk about addictions alcohol, we talk about addictions to pornography,
we talk about addictions to all of these other things.
But let's be real, a lot of people are just
as addicted to their phone, to social media, to news,
to talk radio, to politics as they are to these drugs.
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And what it is is your mind depends on all
of these things each and every day to get you through,
to motivate you to say, look, I'm better than this person,
I'm better than that person. And then you wonder why
at times you get depressed. You wonder at times why
you get discouraged because you do not listen to anything uplifting,
You do not take time out of each and every
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day just to meditate and to think on things for yourself.
When I think about that, David said at morning, noon,
and night. Well, I pray, why did he do it
three times a day? Because he knew that in order
for him to be successful, that he would need some
alone time with himself with God. And I'm gonna go
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a step further and with family. Today, our families cannot
sit down at a dinner table without everybody being on
their phone. Today, our families cannot interact without somebody being
on their phone. Take fifteen minutes a day. Tell you
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your entire family that we are done with the phones.
We're done with the iPads for fifteen minutes, We're done
with the TV for fifteen minutes, and we're going to
communicate one with another and rebuild your not only your
mental relationship with yourself, rebuild your family relationship, rebuild your
spouse relationship, rebuild your Bible relationship, your prayer relationship by
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blocking off fifteen it today for each of these things. Hey,
thank you so much for listening to jump in with Jonathan.
I hope something I've said helps you out today. Please
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look forward to hearing from all of you, and again,
thank you for everything that you guys do each and
every day. Thank you so much, have a great day.
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God bless