When you are motivated by fear,
you move through life propelled by what you don’t want.
Fear of not having a job. Fear of being fat. Fear of being rejected.
You spend as much time in worry as in action.
You’ve sentenced yourself to rains of unpleasant fear-thinking.
Your consciousness is centered in what you don’t want.
You hold the thing you don’t want inside of you everywhere you go.
You hold the thing you are afraid of inside of you, in your awareness, in your body.
So are you surprised that you’ve come to feel even more afraid?
When you are motivated by purpose, by a dream,
you move through life propelled by the possibility
of what could be, and your love for that.
Love flows through you like a river,
soul-leading, soul-leanings.
Something living inside you wants to radiate outwards
and you put your tools—mind, hands and words
in service of that.
That’s what life and action and doing were meant to be.
What are you using your tools for?
Are the tools running the show?
When you are motivated by purpose, by a dream,
you are moving the world forward.
You become one with everything and everyone that creates.
Life hums. Life vibrates.
You look back from here at moving out of fear
and it looks so small, the land of the scurrying mouse,
the land of frantic self-protection.
Love this post! So true – when we live in fear, we carry with us the very thing we don’t want. And once you move past fear, you have moments of looking back and wondering “Who was that scared person?” I lived for so many years in the “land of frantic self-protection.” I still go back for visits now and then, unfortunately. But they are becoming fewer and farther between.
BTW – found you through Gina and Embody Grace. Glad I did!
Hi Tara,
I’m motivated by a dream, a purpose and a passion. I am swimming in the hum of the Universe and it’s a wonderful, fabulous, awesome place to be!
Peggy
Very true, when we are living in spirit, we are motivated by love, by our dream if you will. Very good post.
Tara my hearts sings when I read your words. I am just allowing the whispers of my dreams to reveal themselves to me. I have lived some of my dreams, but have yet to put words to the big dream, the one that my soul holds. I feel it, breaking through – it’s right there…waiting for me to speak it out loud. To claim it as my own.
I love that! I was having lunch with someone today who talked about this… He’s a millionaire who got that way by doing what he loves. By imagining possibilities, seeing a vision of what he wanted, and forging a path to get there.
As he told me at lunch, “Any time someone tells me they want to go into business to make money, I tell them they will fail if money is their only motivator. You have to love what you do, and see purpose in it beyond money.”
A limited example, but your entry today reminded me of that.
So wise!
I am learning and practicing this ” When you are motivated by purpose, by a dream,
you are moving the world forward.
You become one with everything and everyone that creates.”
I am experiencing this more and more, I am becoming aware of when my fear pops up and land me back in the world of the scurrying mouse. It is amazing what love attracts, it is amazing what resources already exist to help me make loving dreams come true. AND as Megan says, when my dreams include more than my small needs they seem to come true in such miraculous ways.
What a joy and what an incentive to keep committed to this way of living. AND I love these words to encourage me to keep practicing. xox Wilma
Hi Jessica. So glad you came by. I love Gina and her work at Embody Grace!
I love your comment, because I’m a firm believer that we never get rid of fear, we don’t surgically remove it…:)
But we can lessen its frequency and impact in our lives.
It sounds like you are on that journey.
I look forward to connecting more with you, and to checking out your (fabulously named, btw) blog!
Tara
Hi Tara,
If you accept that energy flows where attention goes, then by focussing on your fears you just feed them. On the other hand, if you focus on your dreams then that’s what you feed with your energy. Life’s too short to live in fear’s shadow!
Topi
Tara,
Sometimes I find myself falling into fear like a lot of people as they age. I know one reason why I love your writing is because it is the antedote to all of that fear stuff.
Tess, if that is true, if my writing can serve that purpose, I feel very, very well-used. Thank you so much for sharing. Love, Tara
I love this and do my best to live my life with love as the center. Fear is an opportunity to see what is happening and what I am experiencing so that I can take it out, look at it, and then make choices and let go.
The question I come back to when I read things like this – how do we teach our kids to live like this? My daughter is 10- she is familiar with the concept of living from love and living from fear. (She lives with me as her mom) but she has spent 10 years being rejected by her dad. So, she is potentially afraid of further rejection. If she lets him in, gives him a chance (and this is a compassionate child) there is every chance he will turn away from her again due to his own fears – but she is 10.
I wonder if the message sated above is one that we embrace as we are ready to do so? Perhaps my daughter will be ready to let go of her fear and open her heart when she is older or more mature or just tired of being afraid and that exhaustion. or maybe she will come to accept that she has nothing to fear as her dad’s choices aren’t about her but are about him… I wonder if a child can grasp those ideas and live that life? I wonder if we ahve to be ready to drink the water in order to drink – “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”
Thanks for such a thoughtful post.
Thanks Mia. It sounds like you have a very wise way of working with fear in your own life.
In reading about your daughter, what came to mind for me is the important distinction between love and a lack of boundaries. Coming from a place of love doesn’t mean signing up to be hurt, putting up with other’s unloving treatment of ourselves, etc. For your daughter, being motivated by love might manifest as her setting some healthy boundaries with someone that has hurt her and is not available for relationship. It’s possible to hold lots of compassion for others while having real boundaries.
I hope that’s helpful!
I am a little confused between this posting and “Leaving the B+” where you state “Let Fear Be Your Companion”. Am I worng somewhere? OR, are you confirming that out of fear only action results?
Thanks for your question! It’s a great question. Here’s how I see the two fitting together. We don’t ever want fear to be in the driver’s seat. We don’t want to take action or make decisions out of fear, because fear tends to mislead us, cause us to be overly defensive (and attacking) and to disconnect from love. On the other hand, we all experience fear, and we can’t “delete” it from the system. When I wrote about “letting fear be your travelling companion” that’s what I was referring to. Just noticing it when its there, and allowing it to be there, *without *taking direction from it. Does that help? Tara