Dream Chases

Seems like these blogs are starting to become a yearly thing. The main thing though is, I am here and ready to allow you to dive into a mind of a person who has chased nothing but dreams his whole life. The aim of this story is to impact others out there that feel like giving up or feel as if they are at a point where they don’t see any way out of it. We all have that feeling, I have it majority of the time but it’s a process to keep reminding myself to “Trust my process because where I am is exactly where God wants me to be!”

Being a dream chaser is not for the weak, it is a constant mental battle that doesn’t ever stop because there must be a constant reminder of your end goal. Majority of the time we sit and want things to be figured out instantly because we so determined to achieve that dream we have always wanted but we tend to forget that in order to reach that place we want to be, we got to go through a grooming phase. All this is done to ensure that when we reach the destination we are ready to accept what we have always wanted and able to deal with whatever situation is going to come our way when we arrive.

I tend to always have moments where I would sit in my thoughts and the first thing that pops up is “What if you are Delusional? And you just living in a dream world?” This is probably the hardest question to face coming from my mind. I am a 30 year old, staying with my parents, working for my parents and earning way less than what I should be with the experience I have so this mental battle cuts deep because I should be further than where I am now (according to the ways of the world) but I made a decision that I don’t want to be another number in a system. I want to be a game changer, you know that substitution you make in the 60 minute that just changes the game and the tactics for you to win, yeah that is me. In order to be that game changer I need to do things different, I need to be different and sometimes sacrifice what could be for what I want. I sacrifice today in order to achieve tomorrow but it’s not easy because when that question is asked it could take you into a depressed state or you could remind yourself about this process you are going through. This is also why I would always say to my players, “Your most powerful weapon is, your mind!” Something my dad would constantly say to me, control your mind and you are capable of achieving whatever it is you want. Never understood it but it was my process he needed to take me through for moments like this so Am I delusional? Maybe to you but to me where I am makes perfect sense because I know what I want to achieve and this is all part of my process!

We have to find ways to deal with our bad moments or should I rather say our “Questionable” moments. These moments tend to come around when we look at other peoples journeys and question, “How are they there and I am here?” at this moment is where we fail ourselves. I don’t know their journey or how they got to where they are but why should their success determine mine? We have our process that we need to endure to achieve that dream we always wanted but the moment we take our eyes off our vision to focus on another, our vision becomes blurry. I have these moments but I take a step back, regroup and remind myself “MY JOURNEY” so for now I will clap for others, congratulate them because my time will come.

I was chatting to a friend the other night and I asked “How are you and how is work?” her response was, “Please don’t ask me such questions!” I didn’t have a response for that so I just laughed but it made me realize something as I dosed off. We tend to try and hide from the things that play with our minds and vision for where we going, this is where we fail ourselves because in these negative situations we have to find a positive in order for us to grow because every negative situation is a grooming situation. In every grooming stage there is a positive but it is only up to you to identify it. We believe in God or whatever higher power you might believe in but I know my God told me that he will never leave me nor forsake me so while I am going through these tough times I know he got me because he would never want to see me struggle or suffer but I got to identify the lesson being taught and learn it because in this stage of my process there must be something I need to learn that will assist me for where I am going next.

The easiest thing to do is give up and just become another number in the system but every time that thought crosses my mind the first thing I think of is, will I be satisfied with this later in life? The answer is always no. It is not an easy journey to take and you always wonder will I ever achieve what I actually want to and sometimes its not about the end goal but about whether what you doing makes you happy and if it does run with it for as long as you can but never allow outside circumstances to determine where and what you want to do because at the end of the day we have one life and we got to make the most of it. As J.Cole says “Only thing worse than death is a regret filled coffin So try before you die or always wonder what if?”

So to all you dream chases and those that feel they are not going anywhere, trust me a lot of us feel the same way. Keep your eyes on your vision and enjoy where you are in your process. Remember you are great, you are unique, you are bold but most importantly you are a DREAMER!!!!!

Brice Petersen