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

You're listening to episode 110.

This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making a life.

If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or even if you're great at making

decisions but in your current season of life you could use a reminder to simply do the

next right thing, well then you're in the right place.

I've said it before, this idea of doing the next right thing is not one I made up.

It's a phrase that's been repeated and passed down by the greats like Mother Teresa, Reverend

Martin Luther King Jr., Alcoholics Anonymous, Theodore Roosevelt, Elizabeth Elliott, and

Lamont, as well as Princess Anna in Frozen 2.

It's often the simplest phrases that have the power to change your lives.

Frazes like I love you, and I'm sorry, and you're not alone.

For me and so many others just do the next right thing is one of those life changing

phrases as well, not because it's so fancy, but because it's so simple.

Since adults make over 35,000 decisions every single day, it's no wonder that this idea

of doing the next right thing feels like such a relief.

But there are also times when doing the next right thing doesn't seem like enough.

Maybe you've been practicing this simple discipline for a while now, and still it's not

leading where you thought it would lead, and it's not bringing results you hope to see

by now.

If you can relate, listen in.

When John and I first brought the twins home from the hospital, I was secretly horrified

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