If your huge dreams don't scare you, well, they are not yet big enough.
But it goes beyond just being shocked. There are times when you are seriously going to be incapacitated 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 also have an phenomenal 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 entirely. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain it takes to continually go after something that you have imagined in your mind is big. Gigantic dreams will test your character. If you are not the type of 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 underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your best teachers.
What can we actually do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than always building walls, running from it, or making an attempt 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 begin building relations with these internal emotions and feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over the passage of time you could begin developing deep relationships with these thoughts and emotions and they can eventually become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, you can 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 worst nightmares and your enormous dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any tempest because you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep far 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 connection with it. There's significant power in fear, but you need to be willing to hook straight into it.
But it goes beyond just being shocked. There are times when you are seriously going to be incapacitated 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 also have an phenomenal 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 entirely. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain it takes to continually go after something that you have imagined in your mind is big. Gigantic dreams will test your character. If you are not the type of 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 underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your best teachers.
What can we actually do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than always building walls, running from it, or making an attempt 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 begin building relations with these internal emotions and feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over the passage of time you could begin developing deep relationships with these thoughts and emotions and they can eventually become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, you can 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 worst nightmares and your enormous dreams? You would never run again. In fact , you would stand robust through any tempest because you are built from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep far 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 connection with it. There's significant power in fear, but you need 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.
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