Call it unusual, but then again, I might be more intelligent when I’m comatose. I had a dream wherein I was listening to a woman lamenting the fact that she wanted to start a business, but couldn’t. She went on and on, bemoaning how she just didn’t know anybody and had nothing to put down in her diary except her birthday. Tears punctuated her expressed inability to start a business.

“Fine,” I said, cutting short the next barrage from her pity party. “So write down your birthday. Then write down all of your interests. Let your interests become events, and let the events become contacts. Then let the contacts become business.”

That was it. Huh. How to start a business when you’ve got nothing. Wish I’d thought of that.

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