I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to Episode 219.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but it's also about making a life. If you're struggling

with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the

constant stream of information, and sometimes delightful but also distracting

hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing. Today's

question, how can we discern our next right thing when presented with a great opportunity? How do we

know when to say yes? Sure thing? Or no, not for me. Great questions. Listen in.

We talked about this way back in episode 19, if you were around back then, this idea of how to know,

how to discern if something is a great opportunity for you. That episode was called Choose

Your Absence and was 200 episodes ago. Surprise, I have more to say about this and hopefully

a little more guidance.

Today I want to help you create your own framework when presented with an opportunity.

When it comes to deciding between a yes and a no, it's good to remember first that some things

are just favors you're going to do for people who you love.

Other things are just stuff you say yes to because you're a

human person or a part of a team or a citizen in your community. Other things might just be your

job and you need to take them or do them because you have to pay the rent and you just can't be

picky right now. All of these types of scenarios could be at play in the framework that you

design for your yeses and your

nose. So remember that when we look at this other category of possibility. And that's when

something is presented to you as an opportunity of some kind and you have a choice to make. But the

choice for you, for whatever reason, it's just not a clear yes or a clear no at first. You can see the

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