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If your big dreams don't scare you, well, they are not sufficiently large enough.
Nevertheless it goes past just being frightened. There are instances when you are seriously going to be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are significantly heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they've also got an incredible lightness about them if you actually 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 anguish it takes to consistently go after something that you have only imagined in your brain is large. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not the type of person 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 most significant teachers.
What can we actually do when that fear comes?
Do we 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 nicely 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 relations with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over the course of time you might just begin developing deep relationships with these emotions and they can ultimately become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you could build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How powerful would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst fears and your big dreams? You'd never run again. In reality you would stand strong through any tempest because now you are made from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep down into the ground and extends miles into the sky as well.
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 friendship with it. There's significant power in fear, but you need to be prepared to hook into it.
Nevertheless it goes past just being frightened. There are instances when you are seriously going to be paralyzed in fear. You'll feel the immensity of the dream weighing down on your shoulders. Dreams are dense. They are significantly heavy sometimes. They have substantial weight to them. But they've also got an incredible lightness about them if you actually 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 anguish it takes to consistently go after something that you have only imagined in your brain is large. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not the type of person 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 most significant teachers.
What can we actually do when that fear comes?
Do we 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 nicely 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 relations with these feelings. Start understanding them, listening to them, feeling into them - just as you do with folks in your life. Over the course of time you might just begin developing deep relationships with these emotions and they can ultimately become just as deeply vulnerable with you as you are with them. Then, out of your greatest fears, you could build the foundations of your life with rebar from the positive and the negative.
How powerful would that be...to be well placed to create an unshakeable foundation built strongly upon your worst fears and your big dreams? You'd never run again. In reality you would stand strong through any tempest because now you are made from something that roots itself thousands of feet deep down into the ground and extends miles into the sky as well.
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 friendship with it. There's significant power in fear, but you need to be prepared 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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