When you operate at max capacity 24/7, your mind becomes a field of white noise.  You’re so busy managing the "gradually increasing stress" we talked about in Post 2 that you lose your Vortex Awareness.  Remember the RAS (Reticular Activating System) from our Quantum Goals series?  It’s your internal GPS.  But if you’re driving at 200 mph in a fog of exhaustion, you’re going to miss the exit for your next big opportunity.  As Gay Hendricks notes in The Big Leap, we often create "Upper Limit Problems" by staying busy just to avoid the discomfort of expanding into our next level of genius.  We stay "busy" to avoid being "big."