I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing.

You're listening to episode 102.

This is a podcast all about making decisions.

It's also a podcast about making a life.

If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or just need a few minutes away

from the constant stream of information, and the sometimes delightful but also distracting

hum of entertainment, you're in the right place.

I'll bring you a thoughtful story, a little prayer, and a simple next right step.

If your concerns, decisions, and complicated problems feel like they need an extra complicated

solution, I hope you'll listen in and find some relief.

My senior year of high school we lived in Farmington Hills, Michigan, just outside of Detroit.

We didn't live there very long.

It was maybe just under two years.

But several things I remember loving about that house.

The quiet neighborhood, the hardwood floors, the back screened in porch, and the color

I painted in my bedroom, it was a lovely shade of salmon that I've never been able to

recreate.

But aside from my own bedroom, the room in that house that I spent the second most

amount of time in was the small downstairs bedroom my dad used as his home office.

That room was filled with stacks of books and papers, yellow legal pads.

It's the only kind of paper he would write on.

And those yellow legal pads had his characteristic handwriting covering the pages.

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