Welcome, my name is Roger Hol. 

If you are here to discover how to turn your life's dreams into reality, you might find guidance and inspiration by reading this book.   

Well, it's not a book as we usually think of a book, but a series of pages, and some will have videos and audio that help you create the future you are dreaming about.

My story and why this book? 

I share how I went from being burned out to changing my life with preparation, planning, and creating a new life in Italy came true.

I moved to Italy without a job in 2016, so my process and this practical workbook, might help you do the same.

The chapters will be sent to you by email as soon as they are ready. For now, January 2024, chapters 1-4 are prepared for you to start with.

Chapters: 

1. The start. Why Italy? I write about my early life and where this hunger for Italy came from. 
2. The burnout and how I went from a disaster to clarity. You do not need to be burned out to do this. You can have an everyday life where you are, but I’m sure you will discover things you could use to make your dream come true. 
3. The blocks. How my thoughts about not following my dreams were handled
4. Preparations. I share what I did to make the move.
5. The arrival. I got the freedom from the start in Italy. 
6. The daily Italian life. Pros and cons. How I turned cons into positivity and strengths.  
7. My new job. I write about the opportunities I discovered and how you can do the same. I will give many examples of how you can create a job from my process. 
8. The discoveries. In this chapter I will share my new life after Covid and how I started to travel more in Italy. 
9. The injury and surgery. I write about my experience, how this brought back and reinforced the need to follow my dream, and how these happenings made it even more apparent why I should write and share my story. 
10. The bright future in Italy. Why it’s essential to go with our dreams and how many more can get a better life if we do. 

What is a dream, and where does it come from 

Wikipedia says: 
“A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.” 

We all have dreams of what we want to do in life. Sometimes, we daydream. There are thoughts about what we want to do in the future.

I remember when I was young, I wanted to do so much. I had so many ideas. Maybe too many… 

Here are some of them:

“I want to be a chef because I like food so much.” 

“I want to become a soccer player because I like to score goals.” 

“I want to become a baker because I like the smell of freshly baked bread."

“I want to be a captain like my dad so I can travel more.”

“I want to work in a newspaper like my mom.” 

Later on, I learned about Italy at school. I learned about the Roman Empire and many other things about Italy. I was thrilled! 

This is me; I am only 18 months old. 

Little should I know that where I was born should only be a pitstop in my life. 

Before I was born, my parents worked abroad on an oil tanker. And during the early year of 1964, she got pregnant with me. 

They married in Genova, Italy, on 19. June 1964

I wonder if I already, then, inside her belly, could feel sensations of the Italian life she experienced when they stayed there. 

Later, she flew home to Tromsø, north of Norway, where I was born on the 24. November 1964.