About

As you can see by the header, I’m Rachel Rofe. (Ro-fay! Not Roof, Roaf, Roofie, or whatever else you can think of. ).

I’m obsessed with personal development and growing myself. I’m forever reading, pushing myself out of my comfort zone, and doing trials of new lifestyle changes.

I can’t ever learn enough and am always asking a million questions.

And since I’m not so stellar at “About” pages, here’s an email I sent a friend when he asked me what my top 9 passions were:

—

1. Learning. I love, love, LOVE to learn. Yesterday I spent hours watching videos on nutrition -things I’d never heard about before. I love traveling because I get to learn about different types of people, different cultures…

That being said… one of the reasons I want to settle somewhere is so I can take lots and lots of classes -cooking, dancing, more Toastmaster’s…. I mean, you definitely learn a ton through travel as well… I guess I’m just insatiable.

2. Reading. I recently started allowing myself to read fiction books (used to feel guilty about it, like I should spend time on business books – not so smart) and I LOVE it. I get so immersed in a good book… and I find it helps with copy, too. All the time I’m writing down awesome phrases and sticking them in my PowerWords book by John Carlton (today I wrote down “on a budget so tight it’d make a shoestring blush” – how visual and awesome is that!?).

I love reading nonfiction too.

3. Writing. Writing is such a big part of me that I couldn’t even articulate my love for it in a sentence. I take notes everywhere I go and am constantly scribbling down new thoughts. I write out goals, I write out my feelings about things… I was recently angry about something and wrote my way out of it (wrote down what I was mad about, why I was mad, and then got to the root of the problem). I very very rarely find myself angry, so when I do, it’s big. This exercise was extremely potent for me – I couldn’t believe I could so easily dissolve it.

4. Pushing myself out of my comfort zone. This is amazing not only for stretching my mind, but for confidence. It was after I graduated Warrior Camp that I decided to go on my first cross-country road trip, and after breaking that arrow on my throat at MMI that I knew I had to go to Warrior Camp. Doing things like that just reallllly catapults my confidence. Actually, I recently decided to get more motivation for my business, I’m going to start putting parts of my profits into “Warrior Camp funds” where I start sending people there. That experience was so profound for me, as I told you in our phone convo back in L.A.

5. Exercise. Because I was so heavy when I was younger, I didn’t do anything physical at all. Literally, the most I did was manage a volleyball team in H.S. I HATED sports, and I hated even just hearing about them – filled me up with tenseness. Now that I’ve released weight, I love pushing myself and reaching new goals. I love love love going hiking now, belly dancing, yoga… I do 100 pushups (and counting) a day (along with other exercises – and for the record, a combo of real and girl pushups, still more girl than regular – but I’m working on it! ), and it feels SO liberating to break through what I never thought possible before. I think my next goal will be to run a marathon.

6. Psychology. I’ve really been considering going back to grad school to get a degree in Psychology. I love it SO much… love getting insight into why people behave the way they do.. understanding things… it’s just so absolutely fascinating to me.

7. Deep connections with people. These mean a lot to me.

8. Empathy. I feel as if I have a lot of empathy, and I love to use it. It feels natural to me to listen to people, get in their feelings… I cry at almost every movie I see, even funny ones, because I just instantly put myself in other people’s shoes and get happy for them when good things happen, sad when sad things happen, etc. I was considering becoming a therapist and my good friend told me that I’d have to really work on not taking on other people’s problems. An intuitive I really respect says I’d be a great energy healer, she’s just worried that I’d burn out.

9. Spirituality. You know, spirituality is kind of new to me… but it feels so right. As soon as I accepted spirituality and believed in it, amazing things happened right away. Lucid dreams, channeling all sorts of information, getting visions, even was able to communicate with my deceased grandmother – and this has all been in the course of 4 months. I know that everyone has the same gifts and I’m not “special” – but I’m beyond excited to develop everything I’ve been given.

—

This blog is about my experiences through life. It’s part journal, part things I’ve learned that I want to share with others, and part collaboration, as I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks for reading!