I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing.

You're listening to episode 242.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making a life.

If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you 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 discerning your next right thing.

One big reason for the chronic hesitation that some of us struggle with is a fear of making

the wrong choice.

This conversation would be better had face to face, and of course one episode won't eliminate

the fear of choosing wrong, but it's a worthy conversation to at least begin here, especially

considering how prevalent this fear is among many of us.

Today, let's tackle what we're talking about when we say we're afraid of choosing wrong.

We'll listen in.

One limitation we have in this conversation is obvious, but I'm going to say it out loud

anyway.

In fact, in five years, this is the thing I struggle with the most in hosting a podcast

about decision making and discernment, and that's the medium itself, because here I am

in my office alone with a microphone, and there you are in your car or on your walk or

in the alleyway on your lunch break, or in your kitchen or on the train or in your yard

or in your dorm room or on the balcony of your hotel, and we're unable to workshop, discuss,

our whole space for your actual decision.

When I sit with someone in creative direction, we're able to discern together their next

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