Leap and Fear Will Leave You

The moment you realize that what you feared was really no big deal, you probably couldn’t believe it. While experiencing your fear, the adrenaline rush, sweaty palms, accelerated heart rate and the free-flowing tears have to mean that you can’t overcome your fear. Whatever brought change to your mind and heart, one day you decided to close your eyes, breathe slowly and take a leap.

Most fear is just a mirage: Something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so.

Fear of failure is a mirage because we never aim to fail and when we leap and move forward, we realize the fear was a mirage. Even if we don’t achieve what we set out to do—we didn’t fail, we just didn’t get there yet or we used the wrong technique and we learn something about the journey to our destination.

To fail is to be unsuccessful in achieving one’s goal. We fail when we don’t try. One way to guarantee failure is to never try. You are truly unsuccessful when you don’t try. You are successful if you fail 99 times and gut up 100 times. Who wants to fail? No one, but everyone does at one point or another and if the Wright brothers gave up, we may have never had planes, they would not have achieved flight. What flight do you not have because you gave up before you even tried—Open your eyes and leap.

If the desire is in you, you possess what you need to make your desire a reality. What am I missing, the world missing because you are too afraid to walk out your heart’s desire? Someone needs the musician, artist, counselor, writer, dancer, motivator in you. Take the leap. Fear has kept you still. Imagine your fear coming true, what then—I tried and my book didn’t sell, I didn’t get my dream job, or I started my business and no one patronized me. I leaped and landed in mud.

Your dreams are important and shouldn’t remain just dreams. What one act can you do to make your dream a reality? You are worth the leap. Believe in yourself. Start in your house, your basement, your car, your yard—get it out of your heart and into the tangible world.

When you get to the point where your fear screams less because the desire to carry out your dream overwhelms the fear—leap. When the fear is still loudest, you might as well leap and take it with you-you will find that fear will abandon you once you’re in the air, because you are showing faith and fear and faith cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

When you press forward despite your fear-you win. Look fear in the face and say, “We moving forward in this-come if you want”. It won’t go: it’s a mirage.

How to achieve your dreams

1. Pick one dream at a time and work on that.

a. When we have multiple things we want to accomplish, and we work a little on this and a little on that, nothing gets completed.

b. Everything seems overwhelming and before we know it a lot of time has passed and we just give up on all of it.

c. You are creative and you can accomplish it all, just not at one time. Pick a focus and chances are, the other focuses will be a subset of what you’re focused on.

2. Break your dream into bite size chunks

a. Organize them in order if one thing must happen before another

b. For things that can be accomplished independently, group them together.

3. Work on one chunk at a time.

a. If you can’t work on the items grouped together, work on the independent chunks.

4. If money is one of your needed chunks:

a. Stop spending money on something you don’t need and spend it on something you want (I was challenged that every time I wanted to buy something I didn’t need, to spend that same amount of money on my business. If I have it for a luxury, I have it for a chunk of my dream.)

5. It does not have to be perfect (perfection is an evolutionary process that is always ongoing.). You just have to be perfectly committed.

6. Beginning scale does not matter.

a. Remember, you can begin with a laptop on your couch, just begin.

You have to see yourself leaping before you leap in the physical. Don’t physically stand if mentally you are laying down—get up in the Spirit.

How to effectively leap.

1. Stand up-You can’t leap if you are not alert or are sitting down. If you are standing, that means you are ready. Stand up physically and in your spirit. You know success is in you—you want it or you wouldn’t fear not achieving it. Standing up helps you to:

2. Focus on what you want to accomplish and see yourself successful-Be aware of what you want to accomplish if fear was not a factor.

3. Position Yourself-In order to leap, you have to bend at the knees, elbows bent at your sides. At this point you have a picture of your destination and you see what your obstacles are that you have to leap over. You sum up all your energy to land when you leap. You have enough wind in your sail to leap over your obstacles, so you pull your arms back and:

4. Leap-How long you remain in the air is up to you. You may have to be like a frog and leap over and over again. Someone may ask you, are you there yet? Say I am leaping, so I am on my way. I’m being a from and that means that I fully rely on God.

There is something about being in the air—you’re not focusing on your fear—but your destination.

Take the following weeks to think about what position you are in. What chunk of your dream can you accomplish. It’s exciting in the air:

I’m still leaping.