138: Leave It Behind

The Next Right Thing

Emily P. Freeman

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to the decisions we have to make, the choices we carry and the many potential roads we could walk down, its important to remember that we don’t face these decisions neutrally or at zero every time. Like a good novelist begins her story with the story already happening, that’s how we arrive at every decision we make. And that means we're carrying some things we may need to leave behind. Listen in.

Links + Resources From This Episode:

Episode 137: Remember What You Know
Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)
The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi (Details about preorder bonuses here).
Email me here with questions you may have for Kendra
The Sacrament of Letting Go by Macrina Wiederkehr
Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
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0:00.0	I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to episode 138.
0:07.6	This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making a life. If you struggle with decision
0:13.9	fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant stream of
0:19.5	information and this sometimes delightful but also distracting hum of entertainment,
0:25.2	you're in the right place for a thoughtful story, a little prayer, and a simple next right step.
0:30.5	The title of this episode is Leave It Behind, which for me immediately conjures images of left behind
0:37.2	the book series that I did not read and or leave it to beaver the TV show that I did watch.
0:43.9	We won't talk about Rapture Books or 1960s black and white TV shows but we will talk about you
0:49.9	and what it is that you might need to leave behind today. Listen in.
1:00.5	There's a hashtag on Instagram called Friday Introductions where every Friday you can find someone
1:07.7	using that hashtag and introducing themselves. Particularly this can be a good time to do a Friday
1:13.3	Introductions post if someone has had a lot of new followers on Instagram and they want those
1:18.5	people to know a little bit more about who they are. Well, I tend to do Friday Introductions about
1:24.4	once a quarter and I always have fun sharing a little bit more about myself but also I enjoy
1:30.2	asking people to share a little bit more as well. Well, a few Fridays ago I shared a Friday
1:35.7	Introduction post and I mentioned in that post the different names that people call me.
1:41.0	I'm Emily P. Freeman professionally as you know. I'm M to friends and family, M.A to my mother,
1:47.4	them to my college roommate and bird if you knew me in the early 90s actually more specifically
1:52.8	bird mouth. If we want to go there but I'm not going to go there and I'm not getting specific
1:57.8	and I'm certainly not elaborating. Well, at the end of that post I asked people to share their
2:03.3	weirdest nicknames and it was highly entertaining to read all of the wild nicknames that people have.
2:09.7	Most of the nicknames could be categorized into as I read them I figured out about one of three
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