I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to Episode 359.

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 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.

So far this year, I've been engaging in a simple little practice you can do right now,

and it's helping me feel a little bit more grounded than I would without it.

And if you've been around here very long,

you know that any practice can be a spiritual one if we do it with an awareness of God. Listen it.

20 years ago, we may have described our modern day struggles as being distracted by

advertisement or commercials on TV or our email or computer at our desk.

But now those have been amplified, as we all know, because we've moved from having a computer

on our desk and a TV in our living

room to having both in our pockets. So there are many downsides to this, and we've talked about

some of those here, and we're living them on a daily basis. But today I hope to highlight what is

for me one of the upsides, and here it is. Because yes, I almost

always have my phone with me, and that poses its own problems. But that also means I almost

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