New Jersey Dreamer

I have a great idea!  It came to me in a dream.  It involves lots of work, and some money capital, but I just know it will make us a million.  Of course I want you to be my partner!  You and I work so well together; remember the PTA fundraiser when I developed the idea for the fashion show, and you got all the models together and talked the stores into donating clothes and found that perfect venue?  People still compliment me on that.  This new venture may be a little more complicated, but I know you can do it.  Here, I wrote it down as soon as I woke from the dream; call me when you are ready to go to market and we’ll figure out your share of the profits.  I’m thinking 70/30.  No, I get the 70, of course.  

Without the idea, what is there?

A good idea lands in your lap.  Just came out of nowhere! Maybe a rumor of a job opening in another department, maybe a tune keeps running through your head, perhaps you tasted a delicious cookie you just know would be made perfect by the addition of a little allspice.  Thank your lucky stars, now you can get a better job/write a pop hit/be the next Mrs. Fields!  It’s fate, kismet, karma, (cue Julie Andrews) “there must have been a mo-ment . . . of good”. 

Weeks go by.  You didn’t get the job, you forgot the song, and you haven’t finished reading Mrs. Field’s biography. What went wrong?  It seemed a sure thing.

Oh.  Well, that.  But I was waiting for someone to come over and offer me the job; they know I’m just sitting here being wasted in accounting.  And I didn’t have the right music paper to put down the notes for that song, and it wouldn’t look right on notebook paper.  My oven is broken so I couldn’t test the recipe, and now I can’t remember if it had chocolate chips or butterscotch ones.  I always have such bad luck.

TAKE THE STEP! (Yes, I’m yelling in capital letters).  When an idea falls into your lap it is kismet, but you need to marry it with some action. Apply for the job, write the song, bake the cookie.  Then follow up with the appropriate next action.  Then the next, and the next and the next.  Dreams can come true, but only with help from you.  Not your friend (unless it’s a true partnership).

Dream it, do it.