Extra Energy Tip

Recognize your upper limits – in his book “The Big Leap,” author Gay Hendricks introduces us to the concept of Upper Limit Problems. This is something that happens when things are going really well and you’re feeling really good. All of a sudden, something happens to pull you off track – perhaps you are diverted from your goals by a health issue or a family drama. Or perhaps you experience accidents, large or small (like me spilling tea all over  my desk just as I was writing this!)

The Upper Limit Problem comes from our childhood conditioning and the beliefs created by that conditioning. It’s the inner setting you have that tells you just how successful and happy you can be.

As you work to improve your health, your life, or your finances and live a more joy filled life, you will reach your particular set-point and that’s when things seem to go wrong.

The Upper Limit is what holds us back from achieving our full potential. In the book Gay Hendricks says: “…the more successful you get, the more urgent it becomes to identify and overcome your Upper Limit Problem. If you don’t clear the Upper Limit Problem out of your way, it will be a drag on you until the day you die.”

So pay attention when things go wrong. It may just be your Upper Limit Problem at work.

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