680: How to find Passion and Excitement in Life? Look for the Opposite!

The Rachel Hollis Podcast

Rachel Hollis

Health And Wellness, Education, Spirituality, Relationships, Personal Development, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Growth, Self-improvement

4.6 • 16.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, Rachel Hollis challenges the traditional notion of discovering one's purpose and passion in life. She introduces her new book, 'What If You Are the Answer?', which explores powerful questions for self-inquiry. A listener from Nebraska asks about reigniting excitement in life, leading Rachel to suggest focusing on what isn't your passion as a pathway to discovering new interests. It's Time for Last 90 Days! Get the Start Today Journal - https://starttoday.com/products/start-today-journal 00:00 Introduction and Personal Reflections 01:15 Introducing the Podcast and New Book 02:04 Themes and Structure of Upcoming Episodes 03:41 Passion and Purpose: A New Perspective 05:38 The Last 90 Days of the Year 07:28 The New Book: What If You Are the Answer? 10:43 Finding Excitement and Passion in Life 18:50 Listener Voicemail: Seeking Excitement 22:27 Practical Tips for Rediscovering Passion 28:01 Embracing Challenges and Creativity 28:55 The Obsession with Distraction 29:40 Facing Internal Tensions 31:24 The Struggle of Writing 36:28 Breaking Monotony with Small Changes 40:17 Finding Passion in Everyday Life 44:19 Living Life on Your Own Terms 48:31 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Have a question you want Rach to answer? An idea for a podcast episode?? Call the podcast hotline and leave a voicemail! Call (737) 400-4626 Sign up for Rachel’s weekly email: https://msrachelhollis.com/insider/ Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelHollisMotivation/videos Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MsRachelHollis/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices.

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0:00.0	Taking someone's course on how to know what's best for me is way easier than sitting in the tension of a life that has begun to feel monotonous.
0:14.0	Listening to someone on YouTube talk about
0:18.0	their passion for life
0:20.0	is easier than doing the work to figure out my own.
0:25.0	If in your gut, if you're listening to this and you're like,
0:28.0	nah, I'm still at a place where I really want someone to tell me,
0:32.0	give me some guidance for figuring out the five words that my
0:36.8	family is going to use as their tent pole for the next 10 years.
0:40.8	If that feels good, lean all the way in. But if, like me, you feel this stirring, or maybe you felt
0:50.0	this stirring for a while that, you know what what I don't need any more lessons I don't
0:55.4	need any more videos I don't need any I just need to actually confront
1:01.1	what's going on in my life and figure out what to do about it.
1:05.8	If that's where you're at, that's where I'm at.
1:08.5	And today's episode is for us. Hi, I'm Rachel, and in this show, we talk about everything.
1:18.0	Life and work, health and healing, relationships with others and with
1:26.6	ourselves. These are stories for the seekers. These are conversations for the curious. This is the Rachel Hollis Podcast. Hi guys it's Rach. Welcome to a new episode of the podcast and a series I am really excited about because my new
1:58.9	books coming out. I'm just that's the headline. My new book is coming out in January and from now until January I am
2:07.7	dedicating every single Monday episode of the podcast to a different theme that is inside the book because I feel like you guys are very similar to me in that if you have someone you listen to on a podcast or you read their books or maybe you watch them on
2:24.5	YouTube basically if you're consuming their content and you hear that they have a new
2:28.8	book or a new movie or a new show or whatever coming, you're like,
2:33.8	I hate, I don't want to wait, right?
2:36.4	Like, oh, that's months away, I really would love
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