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If your gigantic dreams don't scare you, well, they aren't big enough yet.
It goes beyond just being scared. There are times when you are seriously going to be incapacitated in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are significantly heavy on occasion. They have substantial weight to them. But they have also got an incredible lightness about them if you really give them a chance.
You see, most people try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain it takes to consistently go after something that you have imagined in your consciousness is big. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not the person you need to 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 most significant teachers.
What are we able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we really 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 push them out you commence building relations 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 the course of time you might just begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as exposed 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 able to create an unshakeable foundation built upon your worst nightmares and your massive dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand strong through any storm as 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 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 relationship with it. There's extreme power in fear, but you have got to be prepared to hook straight into it.
It goes beyond just being scared. There are times when you are seriously going to be incapacitated in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. Dreams are significantly heavy on occasion. They have substantial weight to them. But they have also got an incredible lightness about them if you really give them a chance.
You see, most people try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain it takes to consistently go after something that you have imagined in your consciousness is big. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not the person you need to 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 most significant teachers.
What are we able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we really 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 push them out you commence building relations 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 the course of time you might just begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as exposed 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 able to create an unshakeable foundation built upon your worst nightmares and your massive dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand strong through any storm as 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 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 relationship with it. There's extreme power in fear, but you have got to be prepared 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.
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