Author Gay Hendricks shares insights from his book 'Your Big Leap Year' on eliminating the 'Upper Limit Problem' and living in the 'Genius Zone.' Topics include daily wisdom for transformative change, embodying commitment, embracing contribution, wonder, and cultivating good feelings.
Discover your genius zone to do what you love and make a significant contribution.
Cultivate good feelings to make decisions from a positive mindset and enhance life outcomes.
Deep dives
Exploring Your Genius Zone
Discovering your genius zone, where you do what you love and make a contribution, is pivotal. Gay Hendricks discusses the difference between the genius and excellence zones, highlighting that the genius zone involves doing what you love and making significant contributions. Committing to live in your genius zone daily leads to greater satisfaction and impact in your life.
Cultivating Good Feelings
Fostering good feelings is emphasized as a crucial practice for making decisions from a positive mindset. Gay Hendricks explains the significance of generating endogenous good feeling, which can act as a barometer for alignment. Cultivating good feelings involves anchoring them in your body to inspire positive decision-making and life outcomes.
Harnessing Wonder and Curiosity
Utilizing wonder as a superpower, Gay Hendricks highlights its role in fostering open-heartedness and open-mindedness. By embracing wonder and engaging in wonder questions, individuals can challenge limiting beliefs and tap into universal creativity. Wonder serves as a gateway to cultivating good feelings and breaking free from self-imposed constraints.
The Power of Daily Commitment
Gay Hendricks advocates for commitment as a transformative tool for personal growth and alignment. By translating willingness into commitment and anchoring it in the body, individuals can enhance their journey toward living in their genius zone. Daily commitment practices foster sustained positive decision-making and deeper self-awareness.
Gay Hendricks returns for his third visit to 60 Mindful Minutes, this time to share key insights from his new book, Your Big Leap Year: A Year to Manifest Your Next-Level Life. What if 2024 is the year we all eliminate our “Upper Limit Problem” and finally learn to live in our “Genius Zone”? We tackle this question and many more.
Guest Bio
GAY HENDRICKS, PhD, has served for more than forty years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. He is a New York Times bestselling author and his books include Conscious Loving and The Big Leap.
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.