
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

After listening to a complaint, I would ask, “If outside influences like money or insurance companies or bureaucrats were not a problem, what would you really love to be doing?”
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
people get sick for all sorts of reasons. However, if you are keenly interested in taking your Big Leap, you will want to examine everything that brings you pain and suffering as a potential Upper Limit symptom. You may find that you can be a lot healthier than you ever imagined.
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
enter the outskirts of your Zone of Genius by asking yourself what you most love to do. Wonder about this until you have a clearly forming sense of it in your body.
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Elsie said, “If you don’t know it’s OK to feel good and have a good time, you’ll do something to mess up when things are going well.”
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
The power of your commitment brings forth the means necessary for you to live in your Zone of Genius. If you will make a powerful, sincere commitment—a vow that you really want to live your life in the Zone of Genius—your journey will be blessed with uncommon good fortune at all the twists and turns of the road. Commitment has that power.
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Power struggles are a war between two people to see whose version of reality will win out.
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Just notice the voices and feel the fears. That’s all you need to do with them. You don’t need to rid yourself of them. Where would they go, anyway? All you need to do is acknowledge them, wave to them, let them know you’re aware of them. Then get busy learning to live in your Zone of Genius.
Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
The Upper Limit Problem is our universal human tendency to sabotage ourselves when we have exceeded the artificial upper limit we have placed on ourselves. The Upper Limit Problem is caused by a too-low thermostat setting on our ability to achieve and enjoy our ultimate success. The thermostat gets set low early in our lives, at a time when we coul
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My unique ability occurs within the larger skill of helping people solve problems. The best way I can describe it is that I can be with people in a certain way that enables them to come up with creative solutions they hadn’t thought of before. I can create a space that brings forth innovative solutions from inside myself or from people I’m working
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