If your gigantic dreams don't really scare you, well, they are not yet sufficiently large enough.
It goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you are seriously going to be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They're significantly heavy at times. They have substantial weight to them. But they also have 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, agony, and pain it takes to consistently go after something that you have imagined in your mind is large. Big dreams will test your mettle . If you are not 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 possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we have to do anything? Rather than 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 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 push them out you begin building relationships 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 just begin developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can finally become just as exposed with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst fears, you might build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How strong would that be...to be in a position to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst nightmares and your enormous dreams? You would truly never run again. In fact , you would stand powerful through any typhoon as you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
So if your enormous 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 extreme power in fear, but you have got to be ready to hook into it.
It goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you are seriously going to be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They're significantly heavy at times. They have substantial weight to them. But they also have 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, agony, and pain it takes to consistently go after something that you have imagined in your mind is large. Big dreams will test your mettle . If you are not 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 possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we have to do anything? Rather than 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 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 push them out you begin building relationships 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 just begin developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can finally become just as exposed with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst fears, you might build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How strong would that be...to be in a position to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst nightmares and your enormous dreams? You would truly never run again. In fact , you would stand powerful through any typhoon as you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
So if your enormous 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 extreme power in fear, but you have got 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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