Rachel Hollis Quotes, Ranked By How Useless They Are
I love to hate on Rachel Hollis! She is a Christian influencer who, after a viral post, launched an empire with the world's most obvious self-help and girl-bossing support. She has held LGAT conferences where people pay thousands, considering herself a petite Tony Robbins. Here's a longer article about her current downfall. She is grifting in plain sight. This is not to say that people who buy into this are stupid; she depends on the vulnerable for those that don't have the support around them or don't have the resources to get ahead; it's not that they are disadvantaged, it's that you are not doing enough for yourself. I actually don't blame people seeking her out. If she gives someone a little motivation or push, then that's great. It's the faux reality that she creates surrounding herself that is the scam.
The scam is that she LITERALLY SAYS A LOT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING. Her work is not overly Christian, but has made veiled statements that if you don't want success enough, God won't give it to you. Also, she charges people $300 to tell them to make a to-do list and makes videos with scribbles on whiteboards to seem important. Here she outlines how to publish a book. Step one: write a book! And yea, she also made a shit ton of money with three vapid inspirational books. Let's examine my favorite useless, nonsensical quotes.
Bonus fun: say these out loud as if they were Real Housewives taglines.
Our words have power, but our actions shape our lives.
I saw this on a pillow in Homegoods.
You must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you are or what’s happening, you will be happy.
Ok, lemme flush my antidepressants down the toilet. Guess I don't need them I just needed to choose.
When you really want something, you will find a way. When you don’t really want something, you’ll find an excuse.
When you are privileged, you will find a way. If you don't have access to spousal wealth and institutional support, you will find an excuse.
Life is not supposed to overwhelm you at all times. Life isn’t meant to be merely survived—it’s meant to be lived.
Someone tell capitalism.
For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too.
Buy her planner in the merch shop, of course.
Someone else's opinion of me is none of my business.
Well, it kind of is, if it's your mother, friend, coworkers, supervisors, neighbors....because we live in a society.
Be mindful of the people you hang out with, the words you use, and the way you present yourself to the world around you. Pay attention to the times or the circumstances that make you feel the most self-assured, and then work to cultivate more opportunities like those.
So it is my business?
We need to start having a very real conversation about why we accept truths about ourselves as women that we would never consider for men
Rachel invented feminism! No one ever has had this conversation.
Ambition looks like you living in a way others won't so you will have a life others can't.
Wait....what?'
At some point, you grow up enough to understand that many people here on earth are different from you, and what you do with that knowledge defines much of your story.
At some point?
If time has taught me anything, it’s that our differences are what make this life unique. None of us are exactly like the other, and that is a good thing because there’s no right way to be.
So all lives matter?
Nothing that lasts is accomplished quickly.
Like her career.
If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. If you’re the most focused on growth in your group of friends, if you’re the highest achiever, if you’re the most compassionate, if you’re doing the best out of everyone, you’re in the wrong room. You should want to surround yourself with people who are better than you in the areas you want to improve in. You should hope that your good stuff rubs off on them and their good stuff rubs off on you. But if everyone in your circle looks to you to motivate them, you’re outnumbered. They’re much more likely to pull you down to their level than you are to pull them up to yours.
So people are only worth knowing if they can help you get ahead. Got it.