If your gigantic dreams don't scare you, well, they are not sufficiently large enough.
Nevertheless it goes far beyond just being frightened. There are times when you are seriously going to be incapacitated in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are significantly heavy sometimes. They have significant weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you really give them an opportunity.
You see, the majority try to go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up entirely. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain it takes to constantly go after something that you have only imagined in your mind is large. Big dreams will test your mettle . 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 beneath 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 have to do anything? Instead of 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 commence building friendships with these internal emotions and feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over time , you might just begin developing deep relationships with these thoughts and 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 potent would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built on your greatest fears and your big dreams? You would truly never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any typhoon as you are made from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep far into the ground and extends miles into the sky as well.
So if your large 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 relationship with it. There's extreme power in fear, but you have to be prepared to hook straight into it.
Nevertheless it goes far beyond just being frightened. There are times when you are seriously going to be incapacitated in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are significantly heavy sometimes. They have significant weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you really give them an opportunity.
You see, the majority try to go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up entirely. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain it takes to constantly go after something that you have only imagined in your mind is large. Big dreams will test your mettle . 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 beneath 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 have to do anything? Instead of 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 commence building friendships with these internal emotions and feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over time , you might just begin developing deep relationships with these thoughts and 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 potent would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built on your greatest fears and your big dreams? You would truly never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any typhoon as you are made from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep far into the ground and extends miles into the sky as well.
So if your large 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 relationship with it. There's extreme power in fear, but you have to be prepared 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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