If your dreams don't scare you a bit, they really aren't big enough.
But when it comes to dreams, there's a different type of fear that shows up. The fear that will arrive at your doorstep can often be a paralyzing type of fear that will put all of its weight down on your shoulders. Why? Because dreams are incredibly dense and the fear that comes along with chasing those dreams is very dense as well.
You see, most people try to go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and torment it takes to continually go after something that you have imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not the individual you need 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 greatest teachers.
What can we really do when that fear comes in to stop us from chasing our dreams?
Nothing.
If you feel that fear and allow it some room to roam around inside your mind and your body for a while, you can actually work with the fear instead of constantly pushing it away. You can learn from it instead of running away from it.
Start understanding your fears, listening to them, and feeling into them just as you would do with the people in your life. Over the course of time you might begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as 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.
Don't constantly avoid what you know you should be facing. Instead, dive deep into it. Dive so far into it you could find out everything you ever wanted to know about it. This builds strength in your character and a willingness to face your fears. That is absolutely invaluable.
So if your big dreams scare you, good. But when that fear arrives, don't run from it. Instead, 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 willing to hook straight into it.
But when it comes to dreams, there's a different type of fear that shows up. The fear that will arrive at your doorstep can often be a paralyzing type of fear that will put all of its weight down on your shoulders. Why? Because dreams are incredibly dense and the fear that comes along with chasing those dreams is very dense as well.
You see, most people try to go after their dreams a few times, and when they fail, they give up fully. The amount of sacrifice, discomfort, and torment it takes to continually go after something that you have imagined in your mind is enormous. Gigantic dreams will test your personality. If you are not the individual you need 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 greatest teachers.
What can we really do when that fear comes in to stop us from chasing our dreams?
Nothing.
If you feel that fear and allow it some room to roam around inside your mind and your body for a while, you can actually work with the fear instead of constantly pushing it away. You can learn from it instead of running away from it.
Start understanding your fears, listening to them, and feeling into them just as you would do with the people in your life. Over the course of time you might begin to develop deep relationships with these emotions and they can eventually become just as 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.
Don't constantly avoid what you know you should be facing. Instead, dive deep into it. Dive so far into it you could find out everything you ever wanted to know about it. This builds strength in your character and a willingness to face your fears. That is absolutely invaluable.
So if your big dreams scare you, good. But when that fear arrives, don't run from it. Instead, 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 willing to hook straight into it.
About the Author:
Time to take your life to the next level. Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME Life Coaching and writes articles about what it means to be living in this world today. You can find some serious inspiration through looking into these Short Life Quotes or these Happy Life Quotes to start facing those fears.
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