The Big Leap Quotes

“Would you be willing to consider that your conflict is not about what you think it’s about?”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“When I’m operating in my Zone of Genius, I am doing what I love to do and I’m enjoying what I have.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“money arguments never have anything to do with money. Money arguments are always about something deeper,”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“When things are going well, or when you’re feeling particularly good, you can always bring yourself down by manufacturing a stream of worry-thoughts. Once you’ve brought yourself down by worrying, it’s very tempting to inflict those worry-thoughts on others. If we’re in the grip of worrying while someone around us isn’t, we seem to have an almost uncontrollable urge to criticize that person until he or she jumps into the stream of negativity with us.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“diseases of unfulfillment.” When people are not expressing their full potential, they often get illnesses that have vague, hard-to-diagnose symptoms. Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are good examples of what I’m describing”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“How much love and abundance am I willing to allow?”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“if I cling to the notion that something’s not possible, I’m arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“How did I go from feeling good in one moment to manufacturing a stream of painful images in the next?” Suddenly the light of awareness dawned on me: I manufactured the stream of painful images because I was feeling good! Some part of me was afraid of enjoying positive energy for any extended period of time. When I reached my Upper Limit of how much positive feeling I could handle, I created a series of unpleasant thoughts to deflate me. The thoughts I manufactured were guaranteed to make me return to a state I was more familiar with: not feeling so good.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“I took the Big Leap into my Zone of Genius, I might fail. What if I really opened up to my true genius and found that my genius wasn’t good enough?”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“The seductive comforts of success, though, can lull us into accepting the status quo.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation you don’t want to have. However, the moment you work up the courage to have it, you collect an instant reward in relief as well as open up a flow of communication that will allow you to resolve the situation.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“The problem is that a deep, sacred part of you will wither and die if you stay inside your Zone of Excellence”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“It is at first a delicate tightrope walk, which then gets easier as you master the skills required to keep your balance in the new environment. Fortunately, there are shortcuts,”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“we’re learning to let ourselves enjoy love, abundance, and other forms of positive energy without sabotaging ourselves.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Look beyond the worry-thoughts, and you will often find a new direction that’s being laid out for you.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Big Leap Web site.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Meg Whitman”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“There is no quicker way to bring forth our inner Neanderthal than to get into a loving relationship.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Gradually I came to see that I was just worrying for the sake of choking the flow of positive energy in myself. Worrying was one way I was Upper-Limiting myself.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“You can learn a lot more with a spirit of wonder and enjoyment than you can with an attitude of criticism. Make”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“mentioned earlier that most worry-thoughts have absolutely nothing to do with reality. That’s true for criticism, too. In other words, when we criticize something, it usually doesn’t have anything to do with the thing we’re criticizing. When we blame someone or something, we’re doing it because we’ve hit our Upper Limit and are trying to retard the flow of positive energy. When”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“There is something important you should know about the Upper Limit Problem: when you attain higher levels of success, you often create personal dramas in your life that cloud your world with unhappiness and prevent you from enjoying your enhanced success. This is the Upper Limit Problem at work. In other words, the Upper Limit Problem crosses the boundaries of money, love, and creativity. If you make more money, your Upper Limit Problem may kick in and create a situation that causes unhappiness, ill health, or something else that blocks your enjoyment of your enhanced money supply.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“the less breath you feed your fear, the bigger your fear gets.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level