My Book Review: “Girl, Stop Apologizing” by Rachel Hollis

Grab my book notes from “Girl, Stop Apologizing” in order to see what Rachel Hollis has to say about Goal Setting.

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Some Thoughts on Rachel Hollis

A lot of Christian circles have mixed feelings about Rachel Hollis as a Christian speaker, but if you’ve read her previous book, “Girl, Wash Your Face“, you get a glimpse into her background and the reason she has such a strong message of self-confidence.

Her childhood consisted of a lot of anger and trauma as a result of her brother’s suicide. Rachel speaks out of a place of pain and hurt and therefore wants to share the message of worthiness to any woman willing to listen.

Unfortunately, she’s been getting a lot of criticism from Christians because her focus is so much on self (since her father was a preacher and she talks about Jesus), but I personally don’t think that’s any reason to skip these books. Her message is not anti-Jesus just because it’s pro-self…it’s that you don’t need to feel guilt or shame for wanting more for your life.

Rachel challenges us to step into our lives and reclaim them. To stop going through the motions in order to begin living our lives by believing the best about ourselves!

I’m not 100% on board with every book I read, so remember, you can read a book and still be allowed your own opinions. Ok, I’m getting down from my soap box—but I want to leave you with all the helpful tips Rachel offers up in her book. For example:

What Rachel Hollis’ Book Taught Me About Goal-Setting

4 Areas for Setting Priorities

1. Yourself: Are you taking care of yourself? Get sleep, eat well, drink water!
2. Marriage: Is this the most important relationship in your life?
3. Kids: Everyone’s parenting looks different, give yourself grace.
4. Work: Is it taking precedence over what’s important?

5 Tips to Get Healthy

1. Stay hydrated
2. Wake up early
3. Give up one type of food for a month
4. Exercise
5. Practice gratitude

Rachel Hollis’s 10-10-1 Approach

• Ten years (Who do you want to be?)
• Ten dreams (What would make that a reality?)
• One goal (Which dream could you turn into a goal right now?)

4 Steps to Find Time to Focus on Your Goals

1. Look over your week. Where can you add in five hours?
2. Once you’ve set your new schedule, treat those five hours as sacred.
3. What time of day can you be most effective using those hours?
4. Have a weekly check-in, preferably on Sundays.

3 Actions to Establish a Habit

Habits can either be good or bad. For example, a cue (feeling sad) triggers an action (binge eating) that leads to a reward (feeling better for a little while).

Instead, take the same cue (feeling sad) and change your action (going for a run) to lead to a new reward (feeling better, more energy).

1. A cue
2. An action
3. A reward

3 Steps to Reach Your Goals

1. Starting Point (start with the end in mind—how can you get there?)
2. Guideposts (brainstorm everything that will help you get closer to that goal, organize your list, and then narrow it down to three guideposts)
3. Mile Markers (break down all the mile markers along the way that get to each of the three guideposts)

5 Tips for Productivity

1. What is the end result for today? Limit to 3 things.
2. What’s the one thing you could do to make this more efficient?
3. Set up your workspace in order to maximize productivity.
4. Avoid things you know distract you.
5. Check in weekly.

Order Your Copy Today!

If you are ready to set some goals, then order your copy of “Girl, Stop Apologizing” by Rachel Hollis here.

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• “Healthy in the Hustle”: A Bible-Based Self-Care and Wellness Journal

Happy Reading!

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