{"id":663,"date":"2008-02-05T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/a-book-of-dream\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T06:03:00","slug":"a-book-of-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/a-book-of-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a book of dreams?&nbsp; I&#8217;m talking about the book that holds all the dreams you&#8217;ve seen become reality.&nbsp; I think you should have one.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Without a book of dreams, you&#8217;ll fall from someone else&#8217;s dogma.&nbsp; For example, your boss or the latest feel-good\/no-pain sales pitch. <\/li>\n<li>Dreams make every pursuit meaningful.&nbsp; Your career then becomes a tool to catch your dreams. <\/li>\n<li>People without a book of dreams fall prey to fantasy.&nbsp; Fantasy is the exercise of hoping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanidol.com\/about\/simon_cowell\/\">Simon<\/a> realllllllly likes you. <\/li>\n<li>God placed dreams in you to draw you. <\/li>\n<li>Show me someone without a book of dreams, and I&#8217;ll show you someone who is cynical, critical and hurting. <\/li>\n<li>People with a book of dreams have figured out that dreams do come true (thank you Walt) and anything less is a lie. <\/li>\n<li>People with a book of dreams are at peace with knowing that life is a limited time offer, so they run harder. <\/li>\n<li>A book of dreams will give you focus, and not distraction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I could have kept the above list shorter, but I&#8217;m speaking from my own experience.&nbsp; I&#8217;d like to warn you also, expect people to think you&#8217;re a nut case.&nbsp; Just expect it.&nbsp; Those well intentioned (you know what road they pave) people will tell you that you&#8217;re being impractical, foolish, and stubborn.&nbsp; &quot;I&#8217;m jealous of you and too afraid to pursue my own dreams,&quot; is what you won&#8217;t hear.&nbsp; But it lives in them just the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a book of dreams?&nbsp; I&#8217;m talking about the book that holds all the dreams you&#8217;ve seen become reality.&nbsp; I think you should have one.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s why: Without a book of dreams, you&#8217;ll fall from someone else&#8217;s dogma.&nbsp; For example, your boss or the latest feel-good\/no-pain sales pitch. Dreams make every pursuit meaningful.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-development","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}