If your big dreams don't really scare you, well, they are not yet big enough yet.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you are going to be immobilized in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are extraordinarily heavy at times. They have serious weight to them. But they also have an incredible lightness about them if you honestly give them the opportunity.
You see, the majority try to go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up completely. The amount of sacrifice, pain, and torment it takes to constantly go after something that you have imagined in your mind is big. Big dreams will test your character. If you aren't the individual you must be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from the floor underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we really able to actually do when that fear comes?
Do we have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or trying to fix it...can we just sit with it and truly feel that fear? When you stop running from your fears and you 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 begin building friendships with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over time , you might start developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can eventually become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you could 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 typhoon because now you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep down into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
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 great power in fear, but you have to be willing to hook straight into it.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you are going to be immobilized in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are extraordinarily heavy at times. They have serious weight to them. But they also have an incredible lightness about them if you honestly give them the opportunity.
You see, the majority try to go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up completely. The amount of sacrifice, pain, and torment it takes to constantly go after something that you have imagined in your mind is big. Big dreams will test your character. If you aren't the individual you must be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from the floor underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we really able to actually do when that fear comes?
Do we have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or trying to fix it...can we just sit with it and truly feel that fear? When you stop running from your fears and you 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 begin building friendships with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over time , you might start developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can eventually become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you could 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 typhoon because now you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep down into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
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 great power in fear, but you have to be willing to hook straight 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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