If your huge dreams don't really scare you, well, they are not yet sufficiently large enough.
Nevertheless it goes far beyond just being shocked. There are occasions when you will be incapacitated in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They're extraordinarily heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they have also got an phenomenal lightness about them if you actually give them a chance.
You see, most folks try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The significant amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain 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 are not yet 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 underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we really able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or making an attempt 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 start building friendships with these emotions. 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 finally become just as exposed with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, you might build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How powerful would that be...to be in a position to create an unshakeable foundation built upon your worst nightmares and your enormous dreams? You would truly never run again. Actually you would stand strong 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 as well.
So if your large dreams scare 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 extreme power in fear, but you have got to be ready to hook straight into it.
Nevertheless it goes far beyond just being shocked. There are occasions when you will be incapacitated in fear. You may feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They're extraordinarily heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they have also got an phenomenal lightness about them if you actually give them a chance.
You see, most folks try and go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The significant amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and pain 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 are not yet 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 underneath you. They have minds of their own and they can be your greatest teachers.
What are we really able to really do when that fear comes?
Do we really have to do anything? Rather than building walls, running from it, or making an attempt 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 start building friendships with these emotions. 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 finally become just as exposed with you as you are with them. Then, out of your worst nightmares, you might build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How powerful would that be...to be in a position to create an unshakeable foundation built upon your worst nightmares and your enormous dreams? You would truly never run again. Actually you would stand strong 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 as well.
So if your large dreams scare 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 extreme power in fear, but you have got to be ready 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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