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The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level―A Transformative Guide to Overcoming Fears and False Beliefs for Personal Growth and Success Paperback – May 4, 2010

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With over 100,000 copies sold, New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks demonstrates how to go beyond your internal limits, release outdated fears and learn a whole new set of powerful skills and habits to liberate your authentic greatness. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and Gabrielle Bernstein will discover the way to break down the walls to a better life.

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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

“Hendricks has the answers.” — Elevated Existence

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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperOne
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 4, 2010
Edition ‏ : ‎ 64373rd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061735361
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061735363
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.5 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #53 in Motivational Self-Help (Books)
- #71 in Success Self-Help
- #146 in Personal Transformation 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 insightful and life-changing, with one noting it provides tools for creating awareness of thoughts. Moreover, the content is easy to understand and implement, with many ah-ha moments and a lighthearted tone throughout. Additionally, customers appreciate the book's timing, with one highlighting its groundbreaking perspective on time perception. However, the book receives mixed feedback regarding value for money, with some finding it worth the investment while others consider it a waste of time. Moreover, customers disagree on the book's heartfelt content and find it repetitive.

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505 customers mention "Insight"490 positive15 negative

Customers find the book insightful and life-changing, with one customer noting how it provides tools for creating awareness of thoughts.

"Very insightful into our limited beliefs. I am looking forward to living in my genius zone. I wanted to read it twice it was that good!" Read more

"...That something wonderful can be an idea, a wonderful tool for your kitchen, a terribly wrong assumption about how the world works, a bit of history..." Read more

"Great perspective shift. Useful insight easy to read" Read more

"...pieces of the puzzle and how they can be put into place and we can more easily thrive...." Read more

470 customers mention "Readability"452 positive18 negative

Customers find the book perfectly written and an excellent read, with one customer noting that each chapter has value.

"Great perspective shift. Useful insight easy to read" Read more

"...The biggest takeaway for me was the Ultimate Success Mantra. This is something you say to yourself when you meditate...." Read more

"...As it stands, despite the good nugget of being proud of your successes and embracing them, I cannot recommend this book or rate it higher than 1-star..." Read more

"...the explanatory structure not always hitting the mark, the ideas themselves are solid...." Read more

63 customers mention "Ease of implementation"60 positive3 negative

Customers find the book easy to understand and implement, with clear action steps that can be put into practice immediately.

"...way so that the concepts sink in, become memorable and are easy to implement...." Read more

"...I love how Hendricks simplified every problem down to just ONE - the Upper Limit problem...." Read more

"...I read in the book was described in a way that was easy to understand and implement. The storytelling examples were truly the key...." Read more

"...anything complex; rather, these are common sense and easy to digest suggestions about how we can improve our emotional well being and get out of our..." Read more

30 customers mention "Enjoyment"30 positive0 negative

Customers find the book engaging and enjoyable, with many experiencing ah-ha moments and appreciating its lighthearted approach.

"...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..." Read more

"...of real world examples, Hendricks makes his points clearly, with good humor and kindness. "..." Read more

"Very relatable. Fun read. A lot of very helpful insights . One of the better self help style books I’ve read" Read more

"...(not sabotaging yourself when you are feeling good) and living in your Genius zone (finding what only you can do and doing that) were powerful for..." Read more

17 customers mention "Time management"17 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's approach to time management, noting its groundbreaking perspective and divine timing.

"...For the time period awareness is helpful—it would be helpful if this worked through some challenges when upper limit problems surface in..." Read more

"...His premise is: Take full ownership of time. Acknowledge you are the source of time...." Read more

"...Mind blowing concepts that are so synchronous with things I have experienced and I feel like I am on cloud 9!!..." Read more

"...My favorite part was about time itself especially "Einstein Time" great concept...." Read more

35 customers mention "Value for money"21 positive14 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's value for money, with some finding it worth the money while others consider it a waste of time.

"This book gave so much value straight from the beginning...." Read more

"This is pretty bad. Tons of filler, lots of name dropping, and the whole books is pretty much just repetition...." Read more

"...deeper discussing them, however.. what I gain from the book was well worth it. It has changed my perspective of things I do when I hit the wall...." Read more

"...This book is truly ridiculous in reference to illnesses being something our mind comes up with...." Read more

18 customers mention "Heartfelt"12 positive6 negative

Customers have mixed reactions to the book's heartfelt content, with some expressing love for it while others find it lacking in inspiration.

"...examples, Hendricks makes his points clearly, with good humor and kindness. "..." Read more

"...Has some good nuggets in there but nothing new and nothing that really inspired me. Maybe I’m getting harder to inspire in my old age haha...." Read more

"...obstacles that keep you from having more abundance, success and love in your life. We all want to have abundance and success...." Read more

"...' affirmation every day since: I expand in abundance, success, and love every day, as I inspire those around me to do the same...." Read more

30 customers mention "Repetition"7 positive23 negative

Customers find the book repetitive and boring, describing it as a waste of time.

"...The final nail in the coffin is the sheer amount of repetition in this book. This is best shown in the following example:..." Read more

"...anecdotes like that, then you won't like this book, as it is FULL of anecdotes. I tend to skip those. Sometimes it feels like an infomercial...." Read more

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Iyhania Thomas
Best book in a while
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This book open my eyes. It inspired me to create an ebook related to ABA principles.

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Great book
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Such a good thought provoking book. I learned a great deal from this.

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Lori Meadows
Great read
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Very insightful into our limited beliefs. I am looking forward to living in my genius zone. I wanted to read it twice it was that good!

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MikalFM
Great meditation… short on action
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The Big Leap is a great book with a mundane title. It’s in the vein of Think and Grow rich and other books which encourage you to align your inner self with a conscious invitation to more. This book reads like an essay of the authors personal reflections, but I have conviction that there is science and research to back up the Upper Limit theory simply because it matches attachment theory and other findings that we carry behaviors and childhood lessons into the future no matter how harmful they are.

The guidance for working through the Upper Limit problem is a series of meditations; which may prove helpful but that needs to be measured on a time scale different than the book. For the time period awareness is helpful—it would be helpful if this worked through some challenges when upper limit problems surface in interpersonal challenges; or further how to disarm an argument. But there are other books that treat that as the aim.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023
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I've always loved learning. But I've more recently become interested in removing obstacles to growth. I'll turn 71 this year, yet I see so many areas of my life that are crying out for change or improvement. I'm not done with myself by any stretch of my imagination.

I recently read a book called The Big Leap by Gay Hendrickson. The book discusses deep, hidden beliefs acquired chiefly in our early life that guide and sometimes limit our ability to grow and achieve more. I had not thought much about the problem of identifying such obstacles, examining them, and then removing them to enable incredible growth. The book was a big revelation for me.

This brings me to a question that may sound silly: Have you ever gone looking for something you didn't know existed? Who does that? Almost no one. But that's exactly what I did with The Big Leap. I went looking for something I didn't know existed. A book or a training program can do that, but you have to be prepared to turn over some rocks and expect to walk down some paths that lead nowhere until you discover something wonderful that you didn't know existed. You have to go looking for something wonderful that you don't even know exists.

That something wonderful can be an idea, a wonderful tool for your kitchen, a terribly wrong assumption about how the world works, a bit of history that illuminates your modern world, or a simple truth about yourself that was hidden for years.

I meet people all the time who appear to have so much to offer the world, yet their self-limiting beliefs keep them from achieving more--for their own benefit and the world’s benefit. I also see people who are no brighter than you or me who are soaring to great heights of achievement, starting new companies, writing numerous books, giving seminars, being interviewed on TV, growing in knowledge and happiness, and having a wonderful influential life. How did they do that? As I just said, they're not brighter than you or me. What's their secret?

I believe their secret lies in their having successfully made The Big Leap.

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Katrina
Great perspective shift. Useful info
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2025
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Great perspective shift. Useful insight easy to read

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No more glass ceiling
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Feeling stuck? Glass ceiling syndrome? Read this book to find out why you sabotage good things in your life & how to stop it!

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John Sparks
good advice
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No surprises here for the self-aware, but a good reminder for any busy person to look to one’s self occasionally. Make sure to touch base with who you are and want to be.

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Mariana Banegas
Excelente
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Excelente

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Maria Gaian
A must read for every entrepreneur
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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.

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anna
Jedes Kapitel eine kleine Überraschung
Reviewed in Germany on May 4, 2025
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Tolle Ansichten/Gedanken und interessante Tools zum Überwinden von Barrieren. Der Autor geht auf verschiedene Lebensbereiche ein und irgendwie ist jedes Kapitel eine kleine Überraschung.
Sicherlich kann man es immer wieder lesen und entdeckt etwas tolles Neues.

Ich finde seine Schritte zum Auflösen von Sorgen einfach nur klasse und es hat mich - wie gesagt - auch anderweitig überrascht.

Ich habe schon einige Bücher gelesen aber dieses Buch hatte nochmal neue Gedanken.

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Kristen Huber
Be Careful: Not Real Book
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The “sold by Amazon” edition of this book is a crappy Amazon published copy. Even the picture on the front is super blurry.

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Pragmatique, utile, peut facilement mettre en place les conseils proposés.
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Je recommande ce livre, que j'ai acheté deux fois, un pour moi, et puis après lecture, un pour offrir. Je l'ai découvert par une blogueuse canadienne Melissa Maker de Clean my Space.
Le livre vous parle d'un mécanisme d'auto sabotage quand tout va bien: quand tout va très bien, vous faites quelque chose pour tout ruiner parce que cet état de trop bien vous incommode, parce que vous n'avez pas l'habitude d'être bien trop longtemps. Il vous parle de la limite du haut pour faire du mot à mot: limite quand vous être trop haut: "ah je suis bien là...c'est vachement bien..mais c'est bizarre...il y a un truc qui doit cloche,bah voilà je le savais quelque chose ne va pas!" .
Il parle de cette limite là et explique comment les dissoudre, pas les dépasser, pas les repousser, les enlever complètement. Il est très positif, pragmatique, simple à lire et plein de bon sens. J'adhère à 95% du livre je pense, il doit y avoir 5 pages de spriritualité vers la fin, je suis moins fan. Il y a aussi à la fin, la question de la gestion du temps ce qui est très très utile pour ceux qui ont le syndrome du lapin d'Alice (je n'ai pas le temps...où va le temps...je n'ai pas le temps).
J'aimerais l'avoir en français pour pouvoir l'offrir à plus de gens. C'est 12e bien dépensé, et un cadeau avec beaucoup d'impact et de bienveillance.
Bonne lecture.

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