If your huge dreams don't frighten you, well, they aren't big enough yet.
Nevertheless 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. They are extraordinarily heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they have also got an fantastic lightness about them if you really give them the opportunity.
You see, the majority try and go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, agony, and torment it takes to consistently go after something that you've imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you aren't the individual you must be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from the floor underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we really able to actually do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or trying to fix it...can we just sit with it and really 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 commence building relationships with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over the course of time you could begin to develop deep relationships with these thoughts and emotions and they can finally become just as vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst fears, you could build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How potent would that be...to be in a position to create an unshakeable foundation built on your greatest fears and your massive dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand strong through any typhoon because now you are constructed from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep far 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 relationship with it. There's great power in fear, but you have got to be willing to tap into it.
Nevertheless 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. They are extraordinarily heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they have also got an fantastic lightness about them if you really give them the opportunity.
You see, the majority try and go after their dreams a couple of times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, agony, and torment it takes to consistently go after something that you've imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you aren't the individual you must be to see the dream through, dreams will effectively teach you those lessons through failure and ripping the rug out from the floor underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we really able to actually do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or trying to fix it...can we just sit with it and really 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 commence building relationships with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with the people in your life. Over the course of time you could begin to develop deep relationships with these thoughts and emotions and they can finally become just as vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst fears, you could build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How potent would that be...to be in a position to create an unshakeable foundation built on your greatest fears and your massive dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand strong through any typhoon because now you are constructed from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep far 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 relationship with it. There's great power in fear, but you have got 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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