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Name: The Next Right Thing
Rating: 4.1 (130 reviews)
Author: Emily P. Freeman

Emily P. Freeman

A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

4.1 (130 Bewertungen)

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The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman is a guide to making decisions with clarity, especially in times of uncertainty. It offers practical advice and reflections, encouraging readers to quiet the noise around them and listen to their inner voice.

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What’s in it for me? Calm your inner decision-making turmoil.

Here’s a surprising fact for you. Every day, an adult makes an estimated 35,000 decisions, from small things, like which socks to wear, to big, life-changing decisions, like deciding to buy a house. Then there are all those yet-to-be-made decisions that can loom over you, filling you with fear and doubt. These are the decisions that tend to crop up during times of transition, such as when you’re plotting your next move after graduating, or when you’ve just left a job.

If you’ve ever experienced paralyzing indecision, then these blinks are for you. They will help you navigate the fog of decision-making with some straightforward advice: simply do the next right thing. Using decision-making as an opportunity for spiritual growth, you’ll learn how to find peace when clarity is not in sight. You’ll discover where to seek guidance and where to avoid it. In other words, you’ll learn how to find your next right thing.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why it’s a bad idea to collect gurus;
how your problem might be your expectations for yourself; and
how to let go of the fear of making the wrong choice.

Doing the next right thing is about shifting your focus from outcomes to the present moment.

Around her fortieth birthday, author Emily Freeman realized that she wanted to go to grad school. It wasn’t that she needed it to further her career, or even that something was lacking in her life. In fact, she had a job she loved and a family that she loved spending time with. She just thought that it would help her delve deeper into her journey of spiritual growth alongside like-minded people.

Still, that didn’t feel like a legitimate answer to the oft-asked question of why she wanted to go to school. Though it was possible for her to take time off work, and her husband was supportive of the idea, the potential outcomes of the decision plagued her for weeks. If she were to enroll, she feared that the commitment would take a toll on her time with her family. But if she didn’t do the course, wouldn’t she regret it?

Chances are, if you’ve ever had to make a difficult decision, you were similarly focused on the outcome. But what if there were another way to approach decision making?

What if, instead of trying to control the future, you just tried to do the next right thing?

Versions of this advice have been preached by everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Alcoholics Anonymous. It’s also a practice that can be observed in the actions of Jesus Christ.

Think about when Jesus raises Jairus’s daughter from the dead in the Gospels. We might expect Jesus to deliver a sermon about how Jairus and his wife should kneel at the foot of God for the miracle, or about what the daughter’s life now has in store. Instead, he tells them to cook her lunch. This simple task was Jairus’s next right thing.

That might seem like a banal request from the son of God, but it holds an important lesson – namely, that we should be focused on the present moment. Instead of agonizing over mapping out our futures, we would be better off living our lives one next right thing at a time.

In the end, Freeman’s next right thing was to enroll in the grad program. Though she never found the clear-cut explanation for her decision that she had been seeking, she knew it was an opportunity both to grow into a fuller version of herself and to bring her closer to her faith.

Your next right thing will likely look different than your neighbor’s. The following blinks will suggest some practices that might help you find yours.

Eliminating distractions can help you understand your inner experiences.

We live in a technological time in which we are constantly being distracted by notifications, messages and updates. It should come as no surprise, then, that our decision-making abilities are impaired when our phones buzz every five minutes.

Consequently, if you want to find your next right thing, you need to create space for yourself from distractions – you need to become a soul minimalist.

God shows us arrows from where we are in the present moment – not from where we pretend to be.

Though decision-making, like learning the piano, takes practice, we usually don’t get time to rehearse. That can make unmade decisions feel like being handed a final exam on the first day of school.

Luckily, we don’t have to go through the exam alone. Whether we feel him or not, God is with us every step of the way. But since God’s plan for us is more complex than we could possibly imagine, we might be better off trying to look for arrows rather than yearning for explicit answers.

Your next right thing might be to question your desires and motivations.

The Bible has a lot to say about helping others. But what about your own desires?

As Ruth Haley Barton notes in her book Sacred Rhythms, Jesus frequently called upon his followers to express their desires as a tool to help them find clarity on their spiritual paths. You might find it useful to do the same.

Gather co-listeners rather than gurus.

The times when we need to make an important decision are often the times when we seek the most advice. Many of us turn to experts or our friends, hanging on to any suggestion that might help us make the right decision.

Of course, there are times when mentors and teachers can help guide us through our lives. But if we don’t have a vision for what we want ourselves, we can get overwhelmed by trying to follow the advice of others.

Listen to your believers rather than your critics.

If you’re deciding how to take care of your aging parents, or considering a different career path, you may fear what people will say about your choices. So when it comes to doing the next right thing, you might be wondering how to deal with negativity and criticism.

During a trip to Chicago, Freeman and her friend Shannan had a particularly talkative Uber driver, who was happy to share a range of anecdotes about various passengers. But when it came to recounting the story of one particularly nasty passenger, the driver suddenly stopped herself, saying she wasn’t going to waste her energy relaying this passenger’s negative criticisms of her.

Surprises more often resolve decision-making chaos than clarity does.

You may have arrived at these blinks with the intention of finding clarity in your decision-making. If any of the practices outlined so far have nudged you in the right direction, then great. But in general, it’s useful to keep in mind some advice from lifestyle expert Marie Forleo: clarity cannot be rushed.

When Freeman and her husband bought their family home, the house needed major renovations. But despite the pink-painted master bedroom and gaudy mirrors, the author could imagine how it was eventually going to look. She could even picture her children’s toys strewn across the floor.

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The Next Right Thing (2019) takes a fresh look at common decision-making wisdom. Drawing upon personal anecdotes as well as stories from the Bible, these blinks offer soulful advice to guide you through decision fatigue or chronic hesitation so that you can find your next right thing.

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The decision is rarely the point. The point is you becoming more fully yourself in the presence of God.

—Emily P. Freeman

Wer The Next Right Thing lesen sollte

Christians interested in finding spiritual guidance
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Über den Autor

Emily P. Freeman is the author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling books Simply Tuesday (2015) and A Million Little Ways (2013). Her podcast The Next Right Thing aims to enrich her listeners’ personal and spiritual lives.

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