71: Mediocre Loves Bringing People Back to Mediocre

The Start Today Podcast

Rachel Hollis

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Dave is starting out your week RIGHT with some serious talk about running directly toward the thing that scares you in 2020. Do not stop, do not collect $200, etc etc. It's time to get to listening so you too can have the best week ever (instructions inside). Also up today on the podcast - what's the difference between further and farther? If you know, please inform Dave. Thank you! Come hang out with us weekdays LIVE at 8AM CST on Facebook and Instagram (except this week), and catch up on episodes you missed here! -- Y'all. We are still pinching ourselves about the latest news out of our podcast network - Trent freakin' Shelton is launching a brand new show with the Hollis Company! That's right, Straight Up with Trent Shelton debuts on December 4th and will drop new episodes EVERY WEDNESDAY! Trent is going to bring honest, raw, life-changing wisdom straight from his heart to your ears on a weekly basis. His style is so unique, his message so powerful, we just KNOW this is going to be your new must-listen podcast. Subscribe to Straight Up with Trent Shelton on iTunes, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts by clicking this link! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the morning show that no one knows, I know one, is talking about, I said no one,
0:08.0	is talking about, but if they did, they'd probably say, it's the best way to start today with
0:14.8	Rachel and Dave. Persistence is the theme of this week's last 90 days, and the idea being
0:22.1	persistent is choosing to be firm and have the consistency, regardless of the obstacles that are
0:31.6	thrown your way. And Ray-Rae Hollis, in real time, is battling through having had some cedar fever.
0:38.4	Oh, I hate this, cedar fever. I wish I could take care of this cedar fever, and yet I can't,
0:44.6	and here she is showing that even when life decides to introduce a curve ball that you're not ready for,
0:52.2	you have to choose. Are you going to persevere through it and stay consistent with who you say you
0:56.8	want to be, or you're going to back down. The text that she sent, I'll use the safe for the stream
1:05.2	version. I had sent her morning love. I watched you last night. The kickoff was amazing. You crushed
1:10.8	it. I'm so proud of you, and she wrote back, thanks man. This thing is a son of a gun, but I'm a bigger
1:16.9	son of a gun. You're going to have to choose to be a bigger son of a gun, right? You're going to
1:22.9	have to just like decide right now, no matter what gets thrown your way as you roll into the holidays,
1:29.5	and you're now sitting in a room with that aunt that always triggers you when you go back home,
1:35.6	and you revert back to birth order, and your older sister, who sometimes been a bully,
1:40.6	decides to roll up and be herself the way she has been for the last 40 years of your life.
1:46.4	You're going to have to decide, are you going to be a bigger son of a gun?
1:51.2	That's the question. Are you going to, because persistence, this idea of persistence, why we talk
1:57.0	about it right now, as we're finishing the year, we've done so much good work. We're like 75 days
2:03.7	in to deciding to finish this year strong, but persistence is the thing that's going to get us
2:09.7	through the balance of the year, and in a persistent posture, we will be able to build the momentum
2:17.4	from 2019 into starting our 2020 year on the right foot, right? Let's go. I mean, I am here for it.
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