If your big dreams don't really scare you, well, they aren't sufficiently large enough.
Nevertheless it goes past just being frightened. There are instances when you will be incapacitated in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are extraordinarily heavy at times. They have significant weight to them. But they have also got an incredible lightness about them if you really give them a chance.
You see, the majority try to go after their dreams a number of times, and when they fail, they give up completely. The significant amount of sacrifice, pain, and anguish it takes to consistently go after something that you have only imagined in your brain is enormous. Big dreams will test your personality. If you are not the type of person you must be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your most significant teachers.
What can we really do when that fear comes?
Do we actually have to do anything? Rather than 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 start building relationships with these emotions. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over the passage of time you might begin developing 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 fears, 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 enormous dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any typhoon because now 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 ready to hook into it.
Nevertheless it goes past just being frightened. There are instances when you will be incapacitated in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are extraordinarily heavy at times. They have significant weight to them. But they have also got an incredible lightness about them if you really give them a chance.
You see, the majority try to go after their dreams a number of times, and when they fail, they give up completely. The significant amount of sacrifice, pain, and anguish it takes to consistently go after something that you have only imagined in your brain is enormous. Big dreams will test your personality. If you are not the type of person you must be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your most significant teachers.
What can we really do when that fear comes?
Do we actually have to do anything? Rather than 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 start building relationships with these emotions. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over the passage of time you might begin developing 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 fears, 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 enormous dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any typhoon because now 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 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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