If your gigantic dreams don't frighten you, well, they are not big enough yet.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are occasions when you are going to be paralyzed in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are incredibly heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they've also got an phenomenal lightness about them if you really give them the opportunity.
You see, most folks attempt to go after their dreams a number of times, and when they fail, they give up entirely. The significant amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and anguish it takes to continually go after something that you've imagined in your brain is enormous. Big dreams will test your character. If you are not the type of person you have 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 most significant teachers.
What are we really able to possibly 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 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 start building relationships 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 could start developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can finally become just as deeply vulnerable 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 powerful would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built on your worst fears and your big dreams? You would truly never run again. In fact , you would stand strong through any tempest because 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 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 significant power in fear, but you have got to be ready to hook into it.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are occasions when you are going to be paralyzed in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are incredibly heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they've also got an phenomenal lightness about them if you really give them the opportunity.
You see, most folks attempt to go after their dreams a number of times, and when they fail, they give up entirely. The significant amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and anguish it takes to continually go after something that you've imagined in your brain is enormous. Big dreams will test your character. If you are not the type of person you have 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 most significant teachers.
What are we really able to possibly 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 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 start building relationships 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 could start developing deep relationships with these feelings and they can finally become just as deeply vulnerable 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 powerful would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built on your worst fears and your big dreams? You would truly never run again. In fact , you would stand strong through any tempest because 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 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 significant 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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