This book changed the game: The Big Leap. Gay Hendricks cracked why...

This book changed the game:

The Big Leap.

Gay Hendricks cracked why so many smart, successful people sabotage themselves right as things start going well.

Here are 8 lessons for breaking through your own ceiling:

8. Success has a ceiling and you set it.

Hendricks calls it the Upper Limit Problem.

Each of us has an inner thermostat for how much success, love, and joy we'll allow. Go past it, and we unconsciously pull ourselves back down.

7. Worry is usually sabotage in disguise.

Most worry is your thermostat kicking in when things are going too well.

If you catch yourself anxious for no clear reason right after a win, that's the tell.

6. Watch how you pull yourself back down.

The Upper Limit shows up as small, deniable moves:

• Picking a fight.
• Criticizing.
• Getting sick.
• Deflecting a compliment.
• "Forgetting" something important.

All of them are sabotages.

5. Four fears hold the ceiling in place.

Hendricks names them:

• I'm fundamentally flawed
• My success will leave people behind
• I'll become a burden
• If I shine, I'll make others feel small

Most ceilings are built from one of these.

4. Your Zone of Excellence is a golden trap.

It's the thing you're great at, that everyone rewards you for.
So you stay.

But excellent isn't the same as alive.

You can spend a whole career succeeding at work that slowly drains you.

3. Your best work is in your Zone of Genius.

The question Hendricks asks:

What do you love so much it doesn't feel like work?
What gives the most result for the least strain?

That's your genius.

Most bury it under being merely excellent.

2. The objective is to raise the thermostat.

You break the Upper Limit by expanding how much good you can let yourself feel.

Learn to sit with joy, success, and love without flinching.

1. There was never anything wrong with you, you just hit your temporary limit.

The self-sabotage is proof you're at your edge.

See the ceiling for what it is, and you get to take the leap past it.

If you've ever self-sabotaged right when things were going well, The Big Leap will feel like it was written about you.

Have you read it?

What landed for you?

I write every week about the inner work behind building something great without sabotaging yourself on the way up.

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