Gay Hendricks teaches Small Business Leaders How to Make The Big Leap to Achievement and Impact

Gay Hendricks, author of The Big Leap

Gay Hendricks and Bill Ringle discuss making the big leap into your zone of genius for small business leaders.

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Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview

The challenge as you commit to the journey of bringing it forth, though, is that you have a lifetime of beliefs, fears, and habits that have held you back – often subconsciously and in subtle ways.Improve your relationships by eliminating unproductive arguing and removing the Upper Limit Problems that lead to fights.When we realize how much power we have in our consciousness, we start to realize that we are, after all, focusing on the wrong kinds of questions in life.

Read the Show Notes from this Episode

Q: So when you were growing up, who's someone who influenced and/or inspired you?

[2:07] A: My mom really inspired me, Norma Hendricks, she was a writer, she was a journalist and wrote a daily column for the newspaper, a local newspaper...she helped me in my early days cause I always knew I wanted to be a writer and so she would help me a lot when I was in high school learning how to compose themes that kind of thing. So she was my big inspiration. My granddad and grandmother...who lived next door and they were incredibly important to me growing up...then when I was about fifteen or sixteen I went to a Youth Day in Florida Southern University in Central Florida...and they had a guest minister that gave this incredible speech...and it was a key turning point in my life and his name was Jay Wallace Hamilton...he gave us this message that was so radically different from anything I've every heard within a church setting, he said "don't be afraid to be yourself...people are always gonna want to try to sell you on safety in life but go take some risks, find out who you are and let yourself be forged for the fire of life,"...and it kind of like rearranged my brain cells...it was very life-changing for me... Q: Gay, let me ask you, can you recall thinking about and I've had, I can relate to some experience when somebody makes a single statement and suddenly re-calibrates and refocus your life because the word are so profound and applicable. Do you remember making a decision sometime and after that, those words came to the fore and that sense of being able to have those limits removed or that encouragement to go beyond that to really be yourself and not be afraid to be yourself, really played a role in some decision or action you took?

[5:16] A: Ah yes as a matter of fact not long after that I went to the Leesburg Public Library and it set off this kind of questioning in me that Reverend Jay Wallace Hamilton set off this wondering me about who am I really, what do I really wanna do because...you know I haven't really put that much thought into that, and so I went tot the library and I was looking through books and I came across a book called "The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini," and it was a book about a man, it was an autobiography...and I realized I didn't want to do just anything in my life, I want to kind of open it up broadly so that I could go in lots of different directions, and lo and behold, it's exactly what happened, and I didn't realized that my dream had come true until many years later...doing what I most love to do, and so that's led me into entrepreneuring businesses which I then later sold to a public companies, and investments, and led into writing lots of books and so where does the spirit seems to pull me? It seems to just take me around in different directions where I feel like I can make some kind of a difference. Q: Can you describe what the upper limit is?

[7:13] A: Yes, the upper limit problem is our programmed tendency to limit ourselves or sabotage ourselves when things start going better than we have a framework before...like my client...