The Journey of the Dreamer

Download or read book The Journey of the Dreamer written by Donavon Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey of the Dreamer is a guide. It is not a definitive work, not an academic study, not a scientific publication. It is a guide--one meant to encourage and inspire you to live into your destiny. My desire is that, by the end of this book, we have come to some understanding that allows for the cynic and the dreamer to lock arms and create something amazing together. As kids, we could be anyone, we could go anywhere, we could do anything that we could imagine. Our imaginations weren't limited to budgets, timelines, or value. Our dreams were free of fear and free to roam. We could drive a submarine in the deepest caverns of the ocean one moment, and in the next we could be flying through the open skies without the need of any machinery or propulsion device. We were free. We were dreamers. We were alive.The only limits to our dreams were those of our own imaginations! Think about it. We could be anyone, do anything, go anywhere! If we could dream it, we could do it ... and we did.As life moved on, many of us left our childhood dreams for more measurable and more acceptable aspirations. We were convinced our dreams were unrealistic. We were instructed on what dreams were acceptable. We were encouraged to be more logical with our choices and to go the way of the culture and march to the beat of the drum of safety and security. We were told that it would the responsible thing to dive into a career while still young and plan to go after our dreams once we had made something of ourselves. And so we did. As life moved on, many of us stopped actively dreaming because we looked at people around us and realized that this world doesn't value dreamers or their dreams; instead, we value what's practical and reasonable.Life has a way of getting in the way. Life has a way of slipping through our fingers. Life has a way of moving on while we simply watch in disbelief. Time slips by. Minutes become hours, become days, become weeks, become years, become decades. Before we know it, we are entrenched in the process of making something of ourselves. Before we know it, we have barricaded ourselves behind responsibilities of every kind. Before we know it, our dreams are but a distant memory, and we have become a shadow of our former selves.That's what this journey is all about: to help people break free from monotonous lives and to live the life of their dreams. That's my calling and my passion. I tell people this all the time, and I truly believe it: my purpose in life is to help reconnect you with your greatness. In other words, to help you become the greatest version of yourself possible.I want to take you on a journey to understand that you're able to dream; in fact, that you were designed and created to dream. All of us human beings were. Our dreams are simply an extension of our personalities and an extension of our purpose.