223: How to Move Through Small Disappointments
The Next Right Thing
Emily P. Freeman
4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're making plans to travel, to be with friends or family, or to host people at your house in your very own neighborhood, chances are you have some expectations for how things will go. So what do you do when the day comes, the trip is lovely, the food is great and the company kind, but you get stuck in a disappointment that you can't seem to shake? Sometimes our next right thing turns out differently than we thought, and even if it's not life threatening or earth shattering, we feel disappointment and we may not even know all the way why. Here's a way to move through it. Listen in.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to episode 223. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making a life. |
| 0:13.0 | If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, |
| 0:16.0 | or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant stream of information |
| 0:20.0 | and the sometimes delightful but also distracting hum of entertainment, |
| 0:24.0 | you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing. |
| 0:28.0 | Listen in. |
| 0:52.0 | It was four months into the pandemic and our family beach trip |
| 0:55.0 | and canceled like everything else. |
| 0:57.0 | We go every year with John's family but in the summer of 2020, |
| 1:00.0 | no one's going anywhere and we aren't visiting with anyone outside of our |
| 1:03.0 | immediate family much less staying in a house with them. |
| 1:06.0 | But the kids did have a couple of friends who were in our quarantine bubble |
| 1:10.0 | and we decided very last minute to run a house on Hilton Head |
| 1:13.0 | and go to the beach anyway just us and the kids. |
| 1:16.0 | We cooked nearly all the meals at the house. |
| 1:18.0 | We spend most of our time either on the water or riding bikes outside |
| 1:21.0 | but aside from the fact that we were at the beach, this vacation is not like the others. |
| 1:26.0 | Instead of staying on the ocean side, we stayed on the sound side. |
| 1:30.0 | Instead of being with family, we were alone. |
| 1:33.0 | Instead of having a pool, we had a deck overlooking trees and water way in the distance. |
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