In this week’s blog, I want to decipher a dream I had last night. At the end of telling the dream, I will show its semblance and how it can relate to areas in our lives and how it will help us to reach new heights in life. I know firsthand that attaining success is not easy. It requires diligence and a lot of hard work. To reach new heights, we must unshackle our dreams and overcome limiting beliefs to reach our highest peaks in life. I have one question before I tell you about the dream. Are you ready to soar and reach these new heights?
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Last night, or rather this morning, I had a dream. It was a dream where I was in an old antique store. The store was unique in the way that it was able to send me to the top of the building. On top of the building, I could see air balloons and tight ropes attached to various buildings in the surrounding area. Both seemed to be attractions people could pay money to experience. I was able to see two sets of tight ropes and two sets of air balloons.
First, the highest tight rope I saw had a yellow balloon attached to it. The rooftops of the buildings appeared to be flat, like the ones you see in New York. The building I was on didn’t offer a way down to the ground. On the taller buildings, I could see a woman at the start where you would get on the air balloon or traverse over the tight rope. She was trying to grab the air balloon that somehow was just barely out of her reach.
I was still in the same building, watching some people practice on the lower of the tight ropes. I saw they were in full gear and were doing practice runs. The line to get on this tight rope was the longest out of all the other lines. Upon closer inspection, I could see that the tightrope on the lower section had stairs next to it. People had weights to help keep them stable on the tight rope or the stairs as they went across or up. I began to put weights on myself, thinking it was mandatory safety gear.
I found a way to climb up to the top of the highest building. When I ended up on top of the building, my weighted gear was gone. I saw everyone else with the weighted gear on, and it felt like I was going to be swept off the top of the building by the winds. I began to crawl because my knees would shake every time I tried to stand, and I felt unsteady. I believe the weights helped the people stay on the rooftops in the dream. Now, as I’m writing this, the weights didn’t provide an additional benefit to the people. From what I could tell, the weights were holding them back from their fullest potential later on.
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It is the weight of life that stops us from reaching new heights. Your job, friends, lover, family, and mind can impact who you will become. All these things have the ability to slowly make you heavier, sluggish, and less likely to move quickly and deliberately. The weights in my dreams all had different numbers amounts, and the heaviest of the weights were insecurities. The idea that you are not enough or the fear of failure will keep you where you stand. Not all weights are bad, but strapping yourself down too much at a time can hinder your progress toward your dreams.
You have to decide what weight you want to have in your life. If you can recall the girl trying to reach the balloon in the dream, she is an example of being weighted down. She was afraid, so she had those extra weights on. However, those weights were a double-edged sword, meaning they helped her and hurt her. She was afraid of falling and would not take the leap of faith to get to the air balloon. She could have really wanted to ride in that balloon, but the fear of falling was more significant than the chance to soar.
Most people were on the lower tightrope because they feared the top. The fear of greater heights and the risk of falling was greater the higher you were up. Even though they admired the top and the glory that would come with it, they still took the lower road. The obvious safer way across would not get them where they wanted to be, the top. Your dreams scare you the heck out of you because if they do not, you are not dreaming big enough. It is OK to have goals, dreams, and aspirations. Nonetheless, the amount of work needed is extreme to reach them. It would be best to take proper and deliberate action to get there.
If not today, then when? I hear people say, “One day, I will get there!” but the sad truth is that this day will not come for many. It is not that they were unable to get there, but instead that they did not want to do what was needed to get there. Saying it is not enough; if you want it bad enough, you will get there. To make that “One day” today, you must shed those extra weights and escape the comfort zone in your life. Let today be the day we strip the weights from our bodies. We do not need anything holding us back any longer. We will dare to defy our minds and push back our fears into nonexistence so that we can take the scariest leaps of faith in our life. Let today be the refresh button on your highest and dreams that scare you. Shed the weights of life piece by piece to reach those glorious new heights while escaping the comfort zone.
Until then,
Michael Rearden
Founder of Reven Concepts