The Big Leap

1:35 PM Jackie Mart 0 Comments

I finished another book this week! This one I recommend to EVERYONE. It's short and an easy read about personal growth and overcoming barriers to happiness and fulfillment and achieving your true potential.   



A few points that stuck out: 

• Upper Limit Problem- Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. Unfortunately, our thermostat setting usually gets programmed in early childhood, before we can think for ourselves. 

• Often times when we feel "sick" our bodies are trying to tell us we are on the wrong path.  Listen to and acknowledge those feelings. If something doesn't feel right, it usually isn't.

• Quit thinking time is "out there." Take ownership of time--acknowledge that you are where it comes from and it will stop owning you. Claim time as yours, and it will release its claim on you. You always have enough time to do the things that are most important. When you stop complaining about time, you cease perpetuating the destructive myth that time is the persecutor and you are its victim. Some complaints about time most people use daily: 

• Four Barriers of Success:

1. The false belief we are fundamentally flawed in some way. If we carry this feeling within us, we sabotage our success because we think we are essentially bad. If something good happens, we must mess up to offset it, because good things cannot happen to bad people.
   
2. The false belief that by succeeding we are being disloyal to and leaving behind people in our past.  If we harbor this feeling within us, we sabotage our success because we think it's disloyal to our roots to soar too far into the stratosphere. 
   
3. The false belief we are a burden in the world. If we carry this feeling inside us, we sabotage our success so we will not be a bigger burden.  
   
4. The false belief we must dim the bright lights of our brilliance so we will not outshine someone in our past. If we hold this feeling inside us, we tend to hold ourselves back from expressing the full potential of our innate genius.

Intrigued yet?  Check it out! :-)  The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks