Rachel Hollis
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279 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 Jun
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If you truly understood how powerful you were, you would be shocked. So it's just a call to remember what is it that you are capable of? Are you truly living into your potential? If you get really honest with yourself, what percentage are you at right now?
If 100% is you showing up as the best version of you every day, if you were being really honest with yourself, what's your percentage rating today? And again, that's not to make you feel shame. It's more just give yourself the knowledge. You don't have to change anything today. But if you have the information, if you're like, you know what, if I'm being totally honest, I'm giving 70%.
I have more to give. I think I'm going to get the percentage wrong. But David Goggins, this really famous ultra runner says, when you feel tired for the first time on a run, you're really only at like 40%. Which is so crazy, but I'm a long distance runner. I cannot tell you how often I've been on a run and I'm like, I'm tired. And then I hear David Goggins say like, you're only at 40%.
I'm like, okay, let's go.
Yeah, exactly. So just asking yourself these questions gives you some more information for where could you put a little bit more effort in? Where do you need to challenge your limiting beliefs so that you can move further along this year?
When I was younger, I used to think that everything, like all of our success was wrapped in our imagination. Like how big could we dream and what was possible and how hard were we willing to work? And I have learned over time that it really isn't about your dreams. It's about your standards. It is what is the minimum standard for your life that allows you to grow.
So it's not in the book I say, it's not about expanding your ceiling. It's about raising your floor. Because if you elevate, if you draw a line in the sand and you say, I will never go backwards. I will never be that person again. I will never smoke another cigarette or drink too much tequila.
I'm trying to think of leverage points in my life where I like, you know, I got sick because I had too much Jose Cuervo. And then the next day I was like, I can never have tequila again. It was like a very definitive line in the sand.
But if you could approach habits that way, if you could approach conversations with yourself that way, if you could be that hardcore about, you know what, I am never going to commit to this kind of thing again, or I'm never going to allow myself to be spoken to this way again. If you can raise your floor and
If you can raise your standards, then you actually get closer to the ceiling without the ceiling needing to break. So now we're actually achieving more and we're setting a new level for ourselves because we're not backtracking. I think most of us can get really excited because it's the new year. They're really excited because we've just celebrated a big birthday.
We can get pumped up and motivate ourselves to go do something big that pushes us closer to our goals and dreams because of what's going on in our life. That's easy. The question is, can you do it next Tuesday? Can you do it when life gets hard? Can you do it when you get punched in the stomach? Can you do it when your girlfriend breaks up with you?
Can you keep doing the thing even when you don't want to? That's a standard. Years ago, one of the women in my community was going through something really hard. I ran into her at like an airport or something. And she said, I do all the things you say because I'm big on morning routine and the habits that you have in your day.
So she's like, you know, I drink the water and I get up early and I'm doing gratitude and whatever. But my mom... has cancer. I don't know how I'm supposed to keep trying to like add to my life and do all these things that I used to be excited about when I'm going through something hard.
And I was like, oh no, I don't think that we build habits so that we can keep expanding when life is hard because life will absolutely be hard. I think we build great habits so that when life kicks the crap out of us, we don't lose all of the traction we've gained. So we're like, okay, I'm not expansive right now, but by God, I'm also not backtracking. I'm going to just minimum effective dose.
I'm going to keep showing up in the same ways you build those great habits when you can so that they're there when you need them. It's not about doing more. It's about raising your floor.
This is for anybody, because this used to be me, where you've started and stopped a lot of dreams. You've started and stopped a lot of health plans, exercise regimens. You've tried to quit smoking a million times. For anybody who's started and stopped and it hasn't stuck, you've actually created a pattern in your psychology that says that you're a quitter.
You're like, well, you know, I try and then I quit. And every time you quit, it reinforces the belief that you have that you are a quitter. It's why the line in the sand is so freaking powerful because you're like, but I stuck with something. I didn't quit on this one thing.
So one of my favorite things to encourage people to do is to give up one thing that you currently consume, alcohol, cigarettes, binge watching TV until 2 a.m. and messing up your sleep schedule. Anything that you currently consume that you know is not good for you. Doesn't matter what it is. Everyone will have something that pops into their head.
If I just stopped doing this thing, I would feel better. I don't even care if you replace the thing with a different thing. It's just for 30 days, can you commit to not consuming that one habit? And if you do, at the end of those 30 days, you're like, oh, dude, I can keep a promise to myself. I can keep my word.
We will keep our words and our commitment to every single person in our life and break the promise we made to ourself. So just for 30 days, if you can do something, you will shift the way that you see yourself. It literally doesn't matter what it is. It just matters that you keep your honor in this pact you've made with yourself.
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