She Is Without Limits by Haley Hoffman Smith

Hendrick shares – this fear, in combination with the knowledge that one has moved past their ‘upper limit’ brings you to self-sabotaging. You must be thinking “this sounds like imposter syndrome…I have heard this before” or maybe you are thinking, “if this success is all I want, this is the best-case scenario… why would I be scared?” Well, as Dr. It is ‘making it’, standing in the success, and then finding it incredibly daunting and ‘scary’. Now, the idea of the ‘fear of success’ as described by Haley Hoffman-Smith, is pushing for something, knowing it is coming and then coming up against your upper limit. “The big snooze will do everything it can to stop you from changing and growing especially since you’re attempting to obliterate the very identity that you and everyone else has come to know as ‘you’” – Jen Sincero We may never perceive the ‘fear of success’ as ever really being the problem, but Jen Sincero’s concept of ‘The Big Snooze’ gives us another perspective to see this more clearly. Hendrick clearly demarks the upper limit as that threshold between your comfort zone and beyond – where the situation you find yourself in feels bigger than you and it feels scary. When we get there, we become convinced that there is something wrong with it and wanting more. In reflecting on that experience in the book, he identifies that there seems to be a ‘baseline of gratitude, bliss, and happiness that all of us feel like we can show up with in this world’. He proceeded to call the camp, only to find out that nothing was in fact wrong with his daughter and she was in no imminent danger. In his book he describes a time when everything was going really well for him – financially, with his family, his career etc… and while he was basking in that rush of joy and energy that comes with one’s self-recognition of their ‘success’ – he suddenly had a thought that something was horrifyingly wrong with his daughter who at that time was away at a camp.

Before explaining the ‘fear of success’ – let me first begin by explaining the concept of the ‘upper limit’ problem as described in Dr.

She Is Without Limits by Haley Hoffman Smith