210: What if You Could Trust Yourself?
The Next Right Thing
Emily P. Freeman
4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
When I asked readers to send in their episode suggestions related to discernment and decision-making, one common thread ran through them all. Today we'll take a step back and imagine what we want even more than a right decision. Listen in.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. |
| 0:03.9 | You're listening to episode 210. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making a life. |
| 0:13.0 | If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes |
| 0:17.8 | away from the constant stream of information, and that sometimes delightful but also distracting |
| 0:23.6 | home of entertainment, well you're in the right place for discerning your next right |
| 0:28.2 | thing. |
| 0:29.2 | Listen in. |
| 0:59.2 | In the end, at the bottom of that email last week, I asked for replies. |
| 1:06.1 | Since we're currently at this moment, as we speak, working on the content calendar for |
| 1:11.1 | podcast episodes for the next few quarters, I asked readers, maybe you answered me, thank |
| 1:16.0 | you very much, if there was a topic related to discernment or decision making that you're |
| 1:21.0 | hoping that will cover. |
| 1:23.0 | Now I haven't made my way through all the email responses that I received quite yet, |
| 1:27.6 | but after reading many of them, and by the way, there were lots of great ideas, and I |
| 1:32.6 | wrote a lot of them down, but after reading them, I think the thing that struck me the most |
| 1:37.9 | is how tender we all are, how deeply we long for someone to walk alongside, to look us |
| 1:45.0 | in the face, to bear witness to our truest lives, and to not freak out. |
| 1:51.2 | And so I was reading your emails, which again were filled with wonderful suggestions about |
| 1:56.9 | things that we could talk about this year on the podcast, but I couldn't help it since. |
| 2:02.6 | Whether it was a question of how to make a decision with a partner who sees things differently |
| 2:07.2 | than we do, or how do I face that deep feeling of regret after a decision has been made, |
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