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Hey, welcome back. I'm so excited today to talk to you about a short, repeatable process to help you make better decisions and have fewer regrets.

I should say as we get started that that last phrase is the title of a new book by a man named Andy Stanley.

We covered him some about a season ago. I had read a book of his called The Principle of the Path, and we used an episode talking

about elements of that.

And so I started reading his new book on decision making, and I'm really enjoying it.

After some really rich opening chapters on the process of decision making, he ultimately

says there are five questions everyone should ask

themselves before they decide which path they'll take. I've read through those questions and they are

good ones. And if you would like to explore them further, I will have a link to Amazon where you can

purchase the book. But for me, as a reader, the richest stuff was at the

beginning. And in my daily life, there are three simple questions that I use before I do things

that definitely connect with the five that he has listed. But I think for today, I want to lay some choices, groundwork,

and issue some challenges to you on that, and then give you the three questions that have made

the biggest difference for me. I have not yet finished his book, so if he pulls those five

together in a really cool way and I start using them, then I will definitely

record a follow-up. But for you and me today, I think we need to start with the podcast title,

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