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

You're listening to episode 257.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but it's 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 that sometimes delightful, but also distracting

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

If you're listening in real time, we have a little over two weeks until the end of the

year.

Here's the soul talk we all need for the finish line.

Listen in.

Is the life I'm living the same life that wants to live in me?

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to

do with you.

Those are words from Parker Palmer in his book Let Your Life Speak, and they're ones

I've read and returned to for many years.

When I admit at first read, they come with a whole handful of questions, because it's one

thing to feel the pressure of an unmade decision.

It's another thing to add the abstract expectation of listening to your life.

This could feel like a wait we're not able to bear, just because we don't know how to

do it.

There's a headline you'll never see online.

It's news that's never in the media.

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