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

391. This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making 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 in life. There are a lot of reasons to feel pulled

in many directions this time of year, which is why I am delightfully surprised by the invitation

that I've been sensing to slow down and the surprising source from which it comes. Listen in.

In her substack group life, Priya Parker wrote an essay called They Orbited the Moon,

but I keep coming back to the crew. She opened with these words.

It's been almost a month since the crew of Artemis II splashed back to Earth, and I can't stop

thinking about them as a group, how they were together, how they were with us, how they teamed,

how they grouped, how they showed us four strong eyes, and also a moving we. It was healing to

behold. And I'm not the first one to say it, but it's sticking with me enough to put pen to paper

and try to articulate what was just so good about the anatomy of this crew. Now, this of course makes

sense coming from Priya Parker. Her work centers around

how we gather. She wrote a book called The Art of Gathering. And in this particular essay, she shares

11 ways the Artemis II astronauts embodied a high functioning, high performing group. It is worth

a read if you have the time. As for me, the day Artemis II flew behind the moon, I watched

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