If your big dreams don't scare you, well, they aren't sufficiently large enough.
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. Dreams are significantly heavy sometimes. They have significant weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you honestly give them the opportunity.
You see, most folks try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up completely. The amount of sacrifice, agony, and torment it takes to continually go after something that you have only imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your character. If you aren't the individual you have to 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 really do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Instead of building walls, running from it, or attempting to fix it...can we just sit with it and actually 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 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 begin to develop deep relationships with these feelings and they can finally become just as vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you can build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How strong would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your greatest fears and your enormous dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand strong through any typhoon as you are constructed from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky as well.
So if your enormous 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 great power in fear, but you need to be ready to hook into it.
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. Dreams are significantly heavy sometimes. They have significant weight to them. But they also have an phenomenal lightness about them if you honestly give them the opportunity.
You see, most folks try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up completely. The amount of sacrifice, agony, and torment it takes to continually go after something that you have only imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your character. If you aren't the individual you have to 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 really do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Instead of building walls, running from it, or attempting to fix it...can we just sit with it and actually 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 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 begin to develop deep relationships with these feelings and they can finally become just as vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you can build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How strong would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your greatest fears and your enormous dreams? You would never run again. Actually you would stand strong through any typhoon as you are constructed from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep into the ground and extends miles into the sky as well.
So if your enormous 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 great power in fear, but you need 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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