If your huge dreams don't scare you, well, they aren't big enough.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you will be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are significantly heavy sometimes. They have serious weight to them. But they've also got an fantastic lightness about them if you really give them a chance.
You see, the majority try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The significant amount of sacrifice, agony, and anguish it takes to constantly go after something that you've imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your character. If you aren't the person you need to be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or attempting to fix it...can we just sit with it and truly feel that fear? When you stop running from your fears and you nicely invite them into your life, a relationship develops. What if, when fear, doubt and worry show up in your life, rather than building walls to lock them out you commence building relations with these emotions. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over the course of time you might start developing deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you can build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How strong would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built on your greatest fears and your massive dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand strong through any tempest because you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky too.
So if your big dreams frighten you...good. But when that fear arrives, don't run from it. No, use it. Melt it down and cast foundations with it. Court it. Create a relationship with it. There's significant power in fear, but you have to be willing to hook into it.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you will be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are significantly heavy sometimes. They have serious weight to them. But they've also got an fantastic lightness about them if you really give them a chance.
You see, the majority try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The significant amount of sacrifice, agony, and anguish it takes to constantly go after something that you've imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your character. If you aren't the person you need to be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or attempting to fix it...can we just sit with it and truly feel that fear? When you stop running from your fears and you nicely invite them into your life, a relationship develops. What if, when fear, doubt and worry show up in your life, rather than building walls to lock them out you commence building relations with these emotions. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over the course of time you might start developing deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you can build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How strong would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built on your greatest fears and your massive dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand strong through any tempest because you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky too.
So if your big dreams frighten you...good. But when that fear arrives, don't run from it. No, use it. Melt it down and cast foundations with it. Court it. Create a relationship with it. There's significant power in fear, but you have to be willing to hook into it.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author of The Words Of Encouragement a website dedicated to spreading encouraging words to everyone who visits and giving them a reason to continue chasing after their big dreams.
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