If your huge dreams don't frighten you, well, they are not sufficiently large enough.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. 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 are incredibly heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they've also got an incredible lightness about them if you really give them the opportunity.
You see, most folks try and go after their dreams a number of times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, pain, and anguish it takes to continually go after something that you've imagined in your mind is big. Enormous dreams will test your personality. If you are not the 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 best teachers.
What are we really able to possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Instead of building walls, running from it, or making an attempt to fix it...can we just sit with it and really 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 friendships with these internal emotions and feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with people in your life. Over the passage of time you might begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, you might build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How potent would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built upon your worst fears and your big dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any typhoon because you are constructed from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep down into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
So if your large 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 friendship with it. There's significant power in fear, but you need to be willing to tap into it.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. 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 are incredibly heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they've also got an incredible lightness about them if you really give them the opportunity.
You see, most folks try and go after their dreams a number of times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, pain, and anguish it takes to continually go after something that you've imagined in your mind is big. Enormous dreams will test your personality. If you are not the 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 best teachers.
What are we really able to possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Instead of building walls, running from it, or making an attempt to fix it...can we just sit with it and really 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 friendships with these internal emotions and feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with people in your life. Over the passage of time you might begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, you might build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How potent would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built upon your worst fears and your big dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any typhoon because you are constructed from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep down into the ground and extends miles into the sky above.
So if your large 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 friendship with it. There's significant power in fear, but you need to be willing 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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