I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to Episode 346.

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 also 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, in work, and in life. Today as a day I've had marked on the calendar for many months

now because we've got our brand new Advent collection ready and waiting. I'll play you a sample and tell you why it matters. Listen in.

For years at the beginning of the Advent season, I would get excited and motivated to start a study that lasted the whole season. Inevitably, though, I wouldn't

be able to follow through. And then when I got behind, I felt weird about picking it up because I'm

kind of an all or nothing person. That's not an advent problem. That's a me problem. I get it.

But still, I wanted something reflective that I could count on in December, but sometimes

I didn't feel like I could count on me. I didn't want to have to face blank pages in a workbook

that I didn't fill out over the last four days because things got crazy. So I thought it would be

great to have another option, something that could either stand alone

or could be supplemental to something else that you might be doing, maybe a more involved

Advent study that you might choose to go through in a certain season.

Every year is different.

But for me, most of the time in December, a 25-day-long advent workbook is not the journey

that I'm going to choose to go on. That's why I created the Quiet Collection app and why I'm so

glad to share with you that we have a brand new Advent collection for 2024.

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