If your huge dreams don't really scare you, well, they are not sufficiently large enough.
It goes past just being shocked. There are times when you are seriously going to be immobilized in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are incredibly heavy on occasion. They have serious weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you really 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 entirely. The amount of sacrifice, pain, and pain it takes to continually go after something that you've imagined in your mind is enormous. Enormous dreams will test your character. If you are not yet the individual you need to 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 best teachers.
What are we really able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we actually have to do anything? Rather than always building walls, running from it, or trying to fix it...can we just sit with it and actually 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 relations with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over the passage of time you could begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can finally become just as exposed with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, 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 strongly upon your greatest fears and your enormous dreams? You would never run again. In reality you would stand powerful through any storm as you are made from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
So if your big dreams scare 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 significant power in fear, but you have to be prepared to tap into it.
It goes past just being shocked. There are times when you are seriously going to be immobilized in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are incredibly heavy on occasion. They have serious weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you really 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 entirely. The amount of sacrifice, pain, and pain it takes to continually go after something that you've imagined in your mind is enormous. Enormous dreams will test your character. If you are not yet the individual you need to 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 best teachers.
What are we really able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we actually have to do anything? Rather than always building walls, running from it, or trying to fix it...can we just sit with it and actually 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 relations with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over the passage of time you could begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can finally become just as exposed with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, 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 strongly upon your greatest fears and your enormous dreams? You would never run again. In reality you would stand powerful through any storm as you are made from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
So if your big dreams scare 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 significant power in fear, but you have to be prepared to tap 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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