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The Big Leap

The Best Deals You'll Ever Do Are The Deals You Don't Do

The Big Leap

Gay Hendricks & Mike Koenigs

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Freedom, Decisions, Mental Health, Business, Relationships, Genius, Education, Success, Beliefs

5707 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We all have regrets… When you look back on your life, are there opportunities you wish you had taken.... Or NOT taken, whether it was personal or business? Some of those missed opportunities may have been blessings in disguise because some of the best deals you will ever do are the deals you don't do. This concept will change your life when you understand it so keep reading... Gay and Mike will explain the concept completely, plus Gay shares a story about one of the deals he did when he was in the movie business, and how one big thing turned to a giant mistake. You’ll learn how to read your body and mind to reprogram your brain to start paying attention to your “failure points”, even before they happen to prevent yourself a lot of aggravation in the future.

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0:00.0

Oh, big stuff we're talking about, life changing stuff in this episode.

0:09.2

Some of the best deals you'll ever do are the deals you don't do.

0:13.1

What are we talking about?

0:14.2

Well, it'll change your life when you understand it.

0:17.3

All right.

0:17.8

One of the things that Gay talks about is one of the deals when he was in the movie business

0:24.1

and how one big thing turned to a giant mistake.

0:27.7

And then we really get down and talk about how to read your body in your mind

0:33.3

and reprogram your mind and start paying attention to the things that are failure points,

0:40.2

even before they happen to prevent yourself a lot of aggravation in the future.

1:03.4

All right, Gay, you had the idea for this, which is the best things I've ever done were the deals I never did.

1:09.7

And I thought this would be a great episode to talk about knowing what your joyful limitations are.

1:14.0

And really, this fits into the big leap in our upper limits challenges.

1:19.6

And some of those challenges are things that are inside our character and we're perfectly happy,

1:24.4

never doing anything about them or at least just acknowledging and owning them completely. And I'm sure you'll frame this a little bit differently.

1:26.6

But once you talk a little bit about that, and I know you've got some great stories too.

1:31.4

Yes, well, the upper limit problem is our tendency to sabotage ourselves when things start going

1:36.1

better than we know how to handle.

1:38.0

So if you haven't built a structure for how to have more money, for example, or more fame,

1:43.8

a lot of times if those things come along, we find some way to kind of push ourselves

1:48.0

back down.

1:49.3

And so that's one of the big concepts in the big leap is the upper limit problem.

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