The Soul Minimalist

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A Soul Minimalist's Guide to Making Decisions

A Soul Minimalist's Guide to Making Decisions

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Emily P. Freeman
Apr 03, 2024
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Maybe I’m feeling nostalgic or maybe I just love a good, strong, useful list. Either way, as I reflect on the five years since The Next Right Thing book released into the world1, I’m marking down the decision-making principles I wrote about in the book that I still use every single week (some even daily).

  • Pick what you like, then see how it grows.

  • Choose your absence.

  • Look for arrows, not answers.

  • Stop rushing clarity.

  • Be a soul minimalist.

I won’t recap what all of these mean here because I talk through each one of those on this week’s episode of the podcast.2 But I wanted to share a few more of my weekly go-to decision-making advice and then I want to hear yours.

I took this photo on April 1, 2019 right before our book launch party.

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