If Your Dreams DON'T Scare You, They Are NOT Big Enough!

If Your Dreams DON'T Scare You, They Are NOT Big Enough!

Noted Liberian politician and economist Ellen Sirleaf has been bestowed of the best ever global recognitions one can dream of, name it, being the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and the 2013 Indira Gandhi Prize and that's beside being listed as the 83rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.  BUT If I remember her most, it's for this insightful and reawakening quote ever:  If Your Dreams DON'T Scare You, They Are NOT Big Enough!  If this DOESN'T floor you, that means something else which we leave it up to you then📗📙📘

To piggy-back on that one-liner, Ellen Sirleaf goes farther:  THE SIZE OF YOUR DREAMS MUST ALWAYS EXCEED YOUR CURRENT CAPACITY TO ACHIEVE THEM.  To me, this defies both logic and even pragmatism because all along, we are coached and mentored to do things which we are capable of.  Before you demand a MEA CULPA from me, please DON'T mix-up  the TO-DO things versus your DREAMS💦💦💦

WHAT this tells us is to emulate the success stories we all heard of anyway.  Name it, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, there's already an overflow of success stories to peruse.  At the onset, the commonality between these moguls is the fact that WHEN they started to DREAM [real] BIG, it was way beyond their capacity and capabilities.  Jeff Bezos and his wife started working right on their garage.  Elon Musk was a school dropout WHO had to seek a loan to start off things😂😂😂

Even Muhammad Ali, the loquacious but famous and respected world boxing champion is well quoted on this as well.  WHAT motivated him to pursue his dreams was the scary fact he admitted that his dreams of becoming a long-tenured world champion was scary to say the least.  BUT rather end up as dejected and demotivated, it became the very catalyst that drove him to full throttle to push himself to the limits [WHAT with those well publicized punishing training regimens he had to go through if only to push himself WAY BEYOND his capabilities].  NOT to belittle dreams like, to be an accountant, to be a corporate worker, to be a retail business owner, BUT again, to piggy-back on that refrain, IF YOUR DREAMS DON'T SCARE YOU, it will be safe to conclude that those DREAMS AREN'T BIG ENOUGH❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  By default, goal-setting is an invincible BUT permanent tenant within us.  IF you have NO idea WHERE you're going, you're NEVER going to get there, promise.  However, these audacious personal goals will help to mold us to become a more holistic person and eventually a leader either at work OR in life as an individual, a partner/spouse and parent at home.  In short, your goals should be audacious at the very least.  Ellen Sirleaf, the Liberian politician [who served as its President from 2006 to 2018] faced prison, death threats and exile .  YET, she NEVER gave up on her dreams to improve her nation in the face of all the overwhelming number of naysayers and setbacks.  Rolling back to your own personal life, your situation is NOT far from different because we all live parallel lives, with parallel roads.  IF YOUR DREAMS DON'T SCARE YOU, THEY ARE NOT BIG ENOUGH❗❗❗