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

You're listening to episode 114.

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

Many of the decisions we make are second nature.

I'm here for the ones that aren't.

In our last episode, episode 113, decide to decide, I shared how sometimes a decision

stresses us out because we haven't named what the decision is in the first place.

So it just lingers, unmade beneath the surface because we haven't pulled it out to decide

to decide.

Those kinds of unmade decisions hold sneaky power over us because we are uncomfortable

or unsettled, but we don't exactly know why.

Well, in that episode, I share I think three things to do when that's the case for me

and maybe that will help you too.

But today's episode is kind of the opposite.

When we feel uncomfortable or unsettled, but it isn't because of an unmade decision or

unidentified decision, it's just because of the state of things.

We wish there was a decision to be made, an action step to take, or a formula to follow.

Instead, there's just us unsure about what to do, who to ask or who's in our corner.

In my letter to my readers last week, I mentioned some loneliness I've been experiencing lately,

and a reader wrote back and asked me to share more about that.

Well, my first response in my head was a sharp no way, but then my second thought was maybe.

And the ellipsis that follows that maybe, well, that's today's episode.

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