“The Big Leap” Review 3

Guy Hendricks, the author of “The Big Leap” says that we always have to be on the lookout for the Upper Limit Problem because we are always raising the bar on ourselves. Once we know we are at our upper limit we can ask ourselves these questions in order to continue to raise the bar into the Zone of Genius:

• What do I most love to do?
  
• What work do I do that doesn’t seem like work?
  
• In my work, what produces the highest ratio of abundance and satisfaction to the amount of time spent?
  
• What is my unique ability?
  

When you answer all of those questions you can then get clearer on what it is about you that is unique and what would put you in your Zone of Genius. 

For me it is listening and intuitively knowing the pain that people are feeling in order to then help them to shift out of it. What is yours?

The author also speaks about the ways to live in your zone of genius:

• Having a mantra and practicing meditation - to shift your consciousness to the new way of thinking
  
• The Enlightened No - saying no to the things that are not in your Zone of Genius
  
• Renewing and refining your commitment to the Zone of Genius - when you hit a wobbly spot recommit to staying in the Zone of Genius.
  

So what can you practice out of the three things described above to live in your Zone of Genius? I know for me the most important one is saying No to things that do not fit in my ultimate purpose. It is a commitment we all have to keep making over and over again. What are you going to commit to?