960 How to Get Your Spark Back: 5 Ways to Feel Excited About Life Again

Upgrade to the Ad Free Premium Podcast Experience - Get your copy of Rachel's Book Here: Audible, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Millon, Bookshop.org, or wherever books are sold! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit In this episode of The Rachel Hollis Podcast, Rach encourages listeners to stop waiting for a future milestone to finally feel fulfilled and instead learn to love their lives in the present by focusing on intentional daily practices rather than external achievements. Using the metaphor of a marathon, she explains that people often obsess over the “finish line” while ignoring the small moments and consistent effort that make up the journey. Rach argues that long-term happiness comes less from money, success, or relationships and more from mindset, gratitude, and the habits people cultivate each day. She shares five practical ways to “get your spark back”: embracing possibility and having things to look forward to, romanticizing everyday life through mindfulness and rituals, going on solo “artist dates” to reconnect with curiosity and creativity, celebrating small wins instead of only major accomplishments, and curating one’s environment and energy by protecting mental space and limiting draining influences like mindless social media use. Throughout the episode, she emphasizes that passion, novelty, and presence are antidotes to feeling stuck or emotionally flat, and that learning to appreciate life as it exists now creates the momentum and energy needed to build an even better future.

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960 How to Get Your Spark Back: 5 Ways to Feel Excited About Life Again is an episode from RISE podcast by Rachel Hollis.

This episode is 00:43:38 long.

This episode was published on May 21, 2026.

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