If your dreams don't scare you a bit, they really aren't big enough.
Dreams challenge you in ways that you would never ever think you would be challenged. But most of all, they bring a type of fear to the table that could paralyze you if you let it. The immense pressure that comes along with chasing dreams is astronomical and has to be handled with care.
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 really.
Instead of trying to do something with it or push it away, manipulate it, or change it why can't you just sit with it and really feel what that fear is trying to tell you. Because when you stop running from things you end up finding the answers you need.
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.
When you decide to take your fears head on and struggle through them no matter what, you give yourself the opportunity to start developing some serious strength in your character and willingness to face the uncomfortable. When you can do that, you are developing invaluable skills that will help you achieve your dreams.
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.
Dreams challenge you in ways that you would never ever think you would be challenged. But most of all, they bring a type of fear to the table that could paralyze you if you let it. The immense pressure that comes along with chasing dreams is astronomical and has to be handled with care.
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 really.
Instead of trying to do something with it or push it away, manipulate it, or change it why can't you just sit with it and really feel what that fear is trying to tell you. Because when you stop running from things you end up finding the answers you need.
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.
When you decide to take your fears head on and struggle through them no matter what, you give yourself the opportunity to start developing some serious strength in your character and willingness to face the uncomfortable. When you can do that, you are developing invaluable skills that will help you achieve your dreams.
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:
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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