inspiration
The Next
BIG
Leap
Moving On to
Ultimate Success
by Gay Hendricks
Here’s a key to vanquishing that one problem that’s keeping us
from ultimate success in love, financial abundance and creativity.
W
hether I’m coaching a billionaire CEO like have reached an upper allowable limit of positive feeling.
Michael Dell or a 12-year-old piano prodigy, I The good news is that if we can learn to spot and
base my approach on the following bottom-line transcend our upper limit, we can make a rapid transition
insights. They’ve been gleaned from my 30 years of work into our zone of genius. Asking ourselves four questions
in the field of relationship transformation and mind-body can serve as our personal launching pad. Answering these
therapies. questions honestly begets telling new perspectives that just
First, it helps to understand that successful people oper- may set us flying skyward into the big leap. The four ques-
ate in one of several zones: what I call the zone of compe- tions are:
tence, the zone of excellence or the zone of genius. Most
• What do I most love to do?
people stall out in the zone of excellence. Those who make
• What work do I do that doesn’t seem like work?
it big and are the happiest go all the way into the zone of
genius. Achieving that transition is what I call, “the Big Leap.”
• In my work, what produces the highest ratio of abundance
The reason most people don’t make it into the zone
and satisfaction to the amount of time spent?
of genius is because of “the Upper Limit Problem.” This • What is my unique ability?
problem is the one obstacle that prevents us from attain-
All of us deserve to experience wave after wave of
ing success and true happiness in all aspects of our life.
greater love, creative energy and financial abundance,
It occurs because we all have an inner thermostat that
without the compulsion to sabotage ourselves. We start
determines the amount of love and success we
with the heartfelt desire to eliminate our
allow ourselves. When we exceed our setting,
Whatever its
Upper Limit Problem—if we commit to
we tend to sabotage the grander experience, in
order to return to the old, familiar zone where
origin, we can
clearing it out of our consciousness, we’re
more than halfway there.
we feel secure.
transcend our Upper
The trouble is that the thermostat was set
before we could think for ourselves, in early
Limit Problem in the
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., is the author of
numerous bestsellers, including The Corpo-
childhood. Later in life, when we hit our up-
wink of an eye.
rate Mystic. He taught at the University of
per limit, we often unthinkingly engage in
Colorado for 21 years before founding The
self-defeating behaviors; we provoke arguments, get into
Hendricks Institute in Ojai, CA. For more information on
accidents or become sick, in order to bring ourselves back
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Fears and Take Life to the Next
down. Catalysts appear as feelings of guilt, stress, doubt or
Level, visit
Hendricks.com.
worry, which we routinely manufacture when we feel we
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