I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to Episode 349.

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 the sometimes

delightful but distracting hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning your next

right thing. I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional workshop leader. I live in North

Carolina with my family, and through my work, I've helped thousands of spiritually thoughtful people

overcome decision fatigue so that they can discern their next right thing in faith, work, and life.

As we stand here together at the end of one season and the starting edge of the next,

it can be tempting to race ahead without pausing to consider what you might be running into.

Today is for the pause.

Surprisingly, we're not going to spend our time looking back very much,

though I admit and you probably know, reflection is one of my favorite practices for transformation.

But we'll pause here together at the starting line of this new year,

and we'll ask ourselves a few key

questions about what might be next. Listen in.

Maybe you had good intentions to spend that very special week after Christmas and before

the new year in reflection and rest.

But perhaps things didn't quite happen that way, or maybe something came up, or you just got

it partially, or you wanted to let yourself off the hook from having to do anything that

resembled planning or managing or scanning or manipulating your time into something productive.

Well, if that is you, I've got good news.

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