If your huge dreams don't frighten you, well, they are not yet big enough.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you are going to be immobilized in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are incredibly heavy sometimes. They have significant weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you actually give them the opportunity.
You see, the majority 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 constantly go after something that you have imagined in your consciousness is big. Enormous dreams will test your character. If you are not yet 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 beneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your most significant teachers.
What are we able to possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we actually have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or attempting 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 relationships with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with people in your life. Over time , you could start developing deep relationships with these emotions 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 potent would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst nightmares and your big dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand powerful through any tempest because now you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky too.
So if your large 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 friendship with it. There's great power in fear, but you have got to be willing to hook straight into it.
But it goes far beyond just being scared. There are instances when you are going to be immobilized in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are incredibly heavy sometimes. They have significant weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you actually give them the opportunity.
You see, the majority 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 constantly go after something that you have imagined in your consciousness is big. Enormous dreams will test your character. If you are not yet 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 beneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your most significant teachers.
What are we able to possibly do when that fear comes?
Do we actually have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or attempting 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 relationships with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with people in your life. Over time , you could start developing deep relationships with these emotions 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 potent would that be...to be able to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst nightmares and your big dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand powerful through any tempest because now you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky too.
So if your large 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 friendship with it. There's great power in fear, but you have got to be willing 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.
