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

216. 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 news and information and the sometimes

delightful but also distracting hum of entertainment while you're in the right place for

discerning your next right thing. Today's question, I love a good quote, but what's the best

way to keep track of them and recall them so that they might actually make a difference in my life

and my decisions. Great question. Listen in. Back in 2020, when I set down to finally outline the Next Right Thing Guided Journal,

I knew for sure one of the spreads that I wanted to create was a quote page.

Now, if you don't have the guided journal, you have no idea what I'm talking about,

a brief summary.

So the quote page of The Next Right Thing Journal, it's basically the whole journal

is a 12-month

guided journal to help you pay attention to your actual life with prompts, questions, and

repeated lists. And so the quote page, to me, I imagined having on the left hand side of the

spread was lines to write a favorite quote. And on the right hand side of that spread was a place to write

what month it was. So that's exactly what we did. We have one page that features one quote per

month that can serve as a fixed point as you move through the weeks of your life. A quote resonates

because someone else has been able to put into words something we need or want to remember.

Words mirror for us what it means to be human with all the nuance, sorrow, creativity, grief, and

joy that comes along with it. And sometimes it's hard for us to find our own words to articulate

those things. The best quotes to remember are the ones that remind us

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