I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to episode 1-21.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but also 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 for a thoughtful story, a little prayer in a simple next right step.

Well, one year ago, this very week, my book, The Next Right Thing, released into the world.

Remember us this time last year, y'all, going to concerts and having parties and eating in restaurants?

Remember when we used to shake hands and high-five each other and go to church?

Well, this week that the book released last year was a time when none of us could have imagined

what this posture of doing the next right thing would mean to us just one year later.

This time last year, most of us probably didn't know the phrases like flatten the curve,

slow the spread, or keep your social distance. But now these phrases and others have become part

of our daily lives and they remind us of how much has changed in the last year, particularly

in the last month or so. Even though schools are closed, work routines have changed and

even so canceled one thing has remained the same, you still have decisions to make.

In fact, your need to make certain decisions may be even more pressing, more stressful,

or more time sensitive than they've ever been before. So how can we trust ourselves to make

wise decisions during an uncertain time? When our routines have changed, when we have one million

children living in our house, when we feel extra anxious about the economy and the health of our

families and ourselves, and when we're just generally foggy about everything? How can we discern and

decide things about our future and the future seems more uncertain than ever? I have a couple of

tools I hope will help. One is this episode, the second is an online course. If you've been around

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