If your huge dreams don't really scare you, well, they are not big enough.
But it goes past just being frightened. There are occasions when you will be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They're incredibly heavy on occasion. They have serious weight to them. But they've also got an incredible lightness about them if you honestly give them the opportunity.
You see, most people attempt to go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and torment it takes to consistently go after something that you have only imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not 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 best teachers.
What are we able to possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than always building walls, running from it, or making an attempt to fix it...can we just sit with it and truly feel that fear? When you stop running from your fears and you ask 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 friendships with these emotions. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over time , you could start developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can ultimately become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst fears, you can build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How powerful would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst fears and your big dreams? You'd never run again. In reality you would stand robust through any typhoon because now 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 test 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 connection with it. There's great power in fear, but you have to be ready to hook into it.
But it goes past just being frightened. There are occasions when you will be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They're incredibly heavy on occasion. They have serious weight to them. But they've also got an incredible lightness about them if you honestly give them the opportunity.
You see, most people attempt to go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and torment it takes to consistently go after something that you have only imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not 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 best teachers.
What are we able to possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than always building walls, running from it, or making an attempt to fix it...can we just sit with it and truly feel that fear? When you stop running from your fears and you ask 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 friendships with these emotions. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over time , you could start developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can ultimately become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst fears, you can build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How powerful would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst fears and your big dreams? You'd never run again. In reality you would stand robust through any typhoon because now 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 test 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 connection with it. There's great power in fear, but you have to be ready 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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