The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

Your capacity expands in small increments each time you consciously let yourself enjoy the money you have, the love you feel, and the creativity you are expressing in the world. As that capacity for enjoyment expands, so does your financial abundance, the love you feel, and the creativity you express.

Whatever your story is, the first task is to find it. Identify your family story of why you shouldn’t access your genius.

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.

I commit to discovering my Upper

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.

“If money or your job description were not an issue, what would you really like to be doing in the company?”

Just notice the voices and feel the fears. That’s all you need to do with them. You don’t need to rid yourself of them. Where would they go, anyway? All you need to do is acknowledge them, wave to them, let them know you’re aware of them. Then get busy learning to live in your Zone of Genius.

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.

Criticism and blame are addictions. They are costly addictions, because they are the number-one destroyer of intimacy in close relationships.