What Do You Dream? : Daily Journal & Inspiration to Live Your Dreams

Imagine what you could learn about success from Donald Trump, Will Smith, Joe Montana, Whitney Houston, Roseanne, Quincy Jones, LeVar Burton, Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Larry King, Prince and Boyz II Men and hundreds of others. All have made their dreams come true … all have made it to No. 1. And all have personally influenced the philosophy of new author Belma Johnson.

In his stunning debut, television host Belma Johnson has created an inspiring book that compiles the everyday wisdom he’s learned from over 5,000 interviews or television segments featuring some of the most popular and successful people in the history of the planet. It is a book whose title asks the most essential question for achieving your personal destiny: “What Do You Dream?”

About the Book
Belma Johnson has spent years meeting, mingling with and working with hundreds of the most famous, successful, highly skilled, beautiful and rich people in the world. In his book, he has synthesized what he’s learned about the passions, personalities and processes needed to make dreams come true. Then he enhanced that wisdom with inspiring visuals: a gallery of full-color photography depicting the wonders of nature. However, this compilation is not only designed to inspire you to dream, it is also a daily journal for keeping track of each step you take toward your dream. After all, a book of inspiration is just another book of inspiration – one more for the pile. And a daily journal is just a bunch of dull, dry pages that motivate no one. But “What Do You Dream” is a book of inspirational words and pictures, combined with a practical daily journal to help you achieve the dream it has excited in your imagination. The perfect combination.

How Dreams Come True
No matter what field one intends to conquer, pursuing a dream requires that you break ground. You may need to do something no one has done before – or at least no one you know. In that case, you must be the first. In the essay, “Be the First,” Belma Johnson introduces the simple idea that making a dream come true requires a willingness – even eagerness – to embrace the unknown, to turn an area of mystery into an area of mastery. “Whether it’s because of their great courage or their great appetite for adventure, all the successful people I know have learned how to Be the First. Anyone who’s serious about making a dream come true must learn to welcome the challenge to Be the First. My essay, in very simple, clear language makes the dreamer aware of this prerequisite to success. The book is filled with these simple but invaluable lessons I’ve learned from the world’s best. “I didn’t want to write just another inspirational book. As a talk-show host and producer, I met just about every major motivational writer and speaker. Too often, I noticed that people are inspired by these books while they’re reading them, but as soon as they put the book down, they go back to their old habits. I wanted to design a book that gets you working toward your dream, even before you finish reading the book. My book is proactive and interactive.

“The interactive element of writing down one step toward your dream every day is what makes the reading experience last for weeks, even though the average reader could finish the book in about an hour,” the author says. “Actually seeing your dream come true before your very eyes makes this book last a lifetime as a keepsake. Although I’ve written in simple language that a child can understand, I’ve covered all the basics on which many legends have been built.”

Inspiring words with a backdrop of scenic settings. And a day-by-day progress record of how your dream is coming true.

“I wrote this book for young people,” the author says. “As a child, too often we are forced to take those dumb aptitude tests that tell us what profession supposedly suits us. Mine said I should be a social worker. I don’t know anyone who’s happy doing what those tests said he or she should be doing. I believe that instead of telling a child what he should become, we should ask our children, ‘What Do You Dream?’ Even if they never buy my book, I hope at least adults will start asking children this vital question. I hope young people start asking themselves. And start acting on the answer. I believe we’re born knowing who we are. Then the world confuses us. My book is intended to help young people trust their inner-voice. I’ve also discovered the book helps adults remember their dreams and rediscover their inner-voice. All the better. But my dream is to make sure children everywhere hear the question, ‘What Do You Dream?’”