Is Your Dream Important Enough?

“Can I do this?” So many of us stand before the path to our dream and ask that question but I would suggest a more pertinent question to ask is, “Can I not do it?” Is your dream something that burns inside you like a fire and will consume you if you don’t take that step onto the path?

Most people waste their life living in fear. An exciting idea, an inspiration, comes to them and they ask, “Can I do it? Will it be too hard or take too long or cost too much? Will my family, friends or co-workers approve?” Far too often, the fears win out, the dream dies and life continues on unfulfilled. Instead of asking, “Can I do it?” ask, “Can I not do it?” If you find this idea to be so inspiring and so important to you that you feel you’ll never be complete if you don’t do it, then does the rest even matter? When you lay on your deathbed and look back on your life, will you regret not having done this? Let these principles be your guide and not your fears.

What are fears, after all? They are simply the result of limited thinking. Do you know how elephants are trained? When the elephant is a baby, its leg is tied to a stake that is driven deep into the ground. The elephant walks to the limit of the rope and finds it can’t go any further and, over time, comes to accept this limit as being as far as it can go. When the elephant grows up, though it can uproot that stake with the flick of its toe, it still believes it can only go as far as the rope will permit and it doesn’t even try to go any further. This is the result of limited thinking. If the elephant would simply try to move past the limit of the rope, it would find it could do so. The same applies with our fears and limited thinking. The only problem is, like the elephant, we don’t even try.

If you look at your dream and honestly say to yourself, “There is no way I could not do this” then don’t let the rope of fear and limited thinking stop you. You have the power to achieve your goals. Don’t be idle and let the fire inside consume you. Instead, use that energy to drive you toward your objective and not away from it. After all, the only worthless dream is the one left unfulfilled.

Blessings,

Jason Hundley