In this episode of the Rachel Hollis podcast, Rachel shares her personal journey from being overwhelmed by multiple goals to discovering the power of focused goal setting. She reflects on her early struggles with achieving her dreams and how shifting her strategy to concentrating on one goal at a time significantly changed her results. Rachel shares insights from her career evolution, starting from a wedding and event planner to becoming a successful author and the founder of Start Today. She discusses the importance of writing down goals as if they have already happened, which helped her visualize and achieve them more effectively. Rachel introduces the Start Today journal, explaining its conception from her desire to solve a personal problem and how it evolved into a widely loved tool for goal setting and gratitude practice. She emphasizes that Start Today is more than a journal; it's a practice of ownership over one's life through gratitude, goal setting, and daily actions towards becoming who you want to be. Get the Start Today Journal - https://starttoday.com/products/start-today-journal 00:00 Unlocking the Power of Focus and Goal Setting 00:33 Introducing Rachel Hollis and Her Journey 02:13 The Origin Story of Start Today 04:06 The Turning Point: From Chaos to Clarity 06:15 The Struggle of Achieving Dreams 08:56 The Revelation: Working Smarter, Not Harder 16:31 The Practice: Gratitude and Goal Setting 35:19 Building a Community of Dreamers and Doers 38:34 Conclusion and Invitation to the Next Steps 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.