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The Big Leap: A Guide to Transcending Personal Limits, Overcoming Fears, and Unleashing Your Authentic Greatness for a Better Life Paperback – May 4, 2010
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“Gay Hendricks is a great role model for true success. He enjoys abundance and a deep connection with his own spiritual essence, and at the same time has lived for three decades in a thriving marriage. Now, he shows us how to do it for ourselves.” — Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Cracking the Millionaire Code
“Gay has the corner on living life well... he has a glorious love relationship with his wife and he is hugely successful. There is no better person to inspire us all to be the best we can be at every level.” — Mariel Hemingway, author of Mariel's Kitchen and Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out
“Gay Hendricks’ positivity, his love, his genius fill me with hope. And in, The Big Leap, he once again names a pattern that I have always been aware of in myself but never quite brought to consciousness. Now that I have, there’s no going back. “ — Geneen Roth, author of Women Food and God
“Hendricks provides a clear path for achieving our true potential and attaining not only financial success but also success in love and life.” — OfSpirit.com
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Remove the Last Obstacle to Ultimate Success
In The Big Leap, New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks reveals a simple yet comprehensive program for overcoming our one barrier to happiness and fulfillment, providing a clear path for achieving our true potential and attaining not only financial success but also success in love and life.
About the Author
Gay Hendricks is the author and coauthor of more than twenty books that deal with personal growth, including the New York Times bestseller Five Wishes and Conscious Living.
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- Publisher : HarperOne; 64373rd edition (May 4, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0061735361
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- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.5 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #105 in Motivational Self-Help (Books)
- #120 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
- #143 in Success Self-Help
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Gay Hendricks has served for more than forty years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. Throughout his career, Dr. Hendricks has coached more than eight hundred executives, including the top management at firms such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and KLM. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, he has coauthored many books including Conscious Loving, The Corporate Mystic, and his latest, the New York Times bestseller Five Wishes, which has been translated into seventeen languages. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford University. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor at the University of Colorado, he founded the Hendricks Institute, which offers seminars in North America, Asia, and Europe. He is also a founder of The Spiritual Cinema Circle. In recent years his passion has been writing a new series of mystery novels featuring the Tibetan Buddhist private detective, Tenzing Norbu. Ten's first adventure was The First Rule Of Ten, followed by The Second Rule Of Ten and more to come.
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Customers find the book's insights and ideas transformative. They describe it as a brilliant, fascinating read that simplifies problems into one concept. The book is described as engaging and enjoyable. Readers appreciate the book's impact on time management and its ability to reduce stress and master time. However, some feel the examples are too lengthy and repetitive, while others consider it worth the purchase price.
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Customers find the book insightful and thought-provoking. They say it provides good points to consider when achieving top goals. The ideas within it are potentially very transformative, and the book helps identify areas of your life that are holding you back. Readers appreciate the book's straightforward writing style and how it helps them identify common beliefs they have about themselves.
"Wow. Absolutely riveting and amazing. I read this book in two days and already want to read it again immediately." Read more
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Customers find the book easy to read and engaging. They say it's a powerful self-help book that provides practical tools for life change. Readers mention it's one of their top four favorite nonfiction books.
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"...way so that the concepts sink in, become memorable and are easy to implement...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025Wow. Absolutely riveting and amazing. I read this book in two days and already want to read it again immediately.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2024Interesting book with practical applications to breakthrough your self imposed limits
- Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2024This book should be on your annual read list -it’s that much of a guiding light. Hendricks explains why we won’t allow ourselves to enjoy sustained bliss, contentment, and happiness and then gives us the guidebook to get past the upper limiting ways we sabotage ourselves. The personal growth from these concepts will move you towards success in work and life.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2021I really loved this book. The ideas within it are potentially very transformative and I’ve had some definite a-ha moments. It was recommended to me by my confidence coach and I now see why he’s been telling me for a while now that many of my behaviours are upper-limit behaviours.
Overall: I highly recommend this book. Roll your sleeves up and put in the work to get the most out of it.
I gave it only 4 stars rather than 5 because I felt that the way the book lays out and explains ideas could have been better structured. With life-changing books like this I usually make written or typed summary notes anyway so that I can refresh my understanding of the material each day for a couple of weeks just to make it stick. I feel that if you want a self-development book to really impact you, then it’s YOUR responsibility to squeeze every drop of usefulness out of it - this means writing summary notes, revising the material, doing the exercises *properly*, and persevere above all else. So despite the explanatory structure not always hitting the mark, the ideas themselves are solid. The knowledge that Hendricks is a highly regarded expert in his field carried me through those moments where my fear wanted to pick on one little snag and use it as ‘evidence’ that I should give up. Ironically, one of my Upper Limit behaviours ;)
- Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025I think this book needs to be read by every person that is wanting to grow into their best self.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2017Amazon CustomerSometimes, you pick up a book and just can't put it down. Something grabs you right away and pulls you along. It's like the author is speaking directly to you. That was the case with this one. There were a number of themes in this book that resonated with me and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This book is all about understanding limiting beliefs, discovering from where they are derived, and learning how to bust through your self-imposed upper limit to realize your full potential.
We learn about the four hidden barriers that many of us impose on ourselves that may limit us. It may be one particular item that's limiting us or a combination of a couple. The hidden barriers are as follows:
1 • Feeling Fundamentally Flawed
2 • Disloyalty and Abandonment
3 • Believing That More Success Brings a Bigger Burden
4 • The Crime of Outshining
The author does a good job of detailing each of the hidden beliefs. Many times, it's deep-rooted from our early years and we may not even recognize that we have these hidden beliefs.
The author speaks of working in different "zones." There's the Zone of Incompetence, the Zone of Competence, the Zone of Excellence, and the Zone of Genius, the ultimate Zone where we should play.
The book is filled with all kinds of great suggestions for finding your way past your upper limit and finding your way into the Zone of Genius.
The biggest takeaway for me was the Ultimate Success Mantra. This is something you say to yourself when you meditate. It's something you say aloud to yourself. It's something you program into your neural pathways so you never forget and I happen to like it word for word. The Ultimate Success Mantra is,
"I expand in abundance, success, and love every day and I inspire others around me to do the same."
The only language I've added to it is, "so I may serve more people" and I've inserted this right after the word "day."
This book was published in 2010. It garners a 4.7 rating after 505 reviews on Amazon and a 4.06 on Goodreads with 3,062 ratings and 253 reviews. I actually gave it a 5-star rating and I'm inspired to check out more by Gay Hendricks.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024This book is a life changer. It completely alters the way I approach life. It’s a great read while learning manifestation and law of assumption because we manifest what we believe we deserve.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024The introduction to the "upper limit problem" was a new concept for me and very enlightening, possibly even life-changing. I also greatly appreciated his explanation that there are not only one, but four reasons people have an upper-limit problem - it was insightful, and easy to find yourself in one of the four "types". However, I feel the book lacked real follow-through on how to break through the upper limit (other than "just do it.") While there was some good advice sprinkled in there, I felt the author kind of lost his way after laying out the problem. For example, the book would have benefited from offering specific advice for each of the four types, as the solution isn't "one size fits all." In addition, some of the chapters (like the one on time-management) felt like space fillers: interesting, but not really addressing the issue at hand. Nevertheless, I'm glad I read it, as it laid out a premise that was original and helpful to recognize.
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patriciaReviewed in Mexico on August 29, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars muy recomendado
Excelente libro sobre todo la segunda parte, muy práctico , entendible con lenguaje fácil de entender y aplicable sus consejos.
- Dimitri TsoumpasReviewed in Canada on December 20, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars True wisdom
Simple, concise, and entertaining. This book is very impactful psychologically and it is appropriate in length. The author distills very complex and insightful ideas into straightforward and easy to assimilate information, which is masterfully done. My only gripe is that there a couple of questionable claims by the author, but if you can overlook those, this book is a gem.
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SandraReviewed in Brazil on September 27, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars BOM
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- Delphine DebauveReviewed in Italy on July 20, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
This book is a great motivator that shows you the way to overcome your limitations and go beyond what you think is possible.
- Maria GaianReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for every entrepreneur
This is my second time reading this book and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. As usual, I've discovered little nuggets of wisdom that I missed the first time.
I'm re-reading a lot of books in order to create a reading list for soul led entrepreneurs and this one HAS to be in that list.
One of the reasons many of us suffer from unhappiness, even depression, is feeling like we aren't doing work that is valued or that matters. We get stuck in jobs and careers that we think will make us happy. Yet, more often than not, these jobs are more in line with what other people expect from us. We don't feel happy at all!
And then, should we be lucky enough to start a business or find a job we truly love, often we self sabotage it! Why do we do that?
Read this book and all will become clear.
We all have blocks to our success and this book explains clearly why we are blocked and where the blocks come from, along with some simple tips to help you overcome them.
It's a wonderful book and I highly recommend it, especially if you're just considering starting a business as it may help you to refine your offers and make sure you're working in your zone of genius.