Amanda waited fifteen years for a genius business idea. Something original. Something that would arrive like a sign from the universe on a quiet Sunday morning, preferably with good lighting.
Then she ran into Priya outside the subway. Priya, who in 2014 had put $300 a month into an index fund "just to see," started a one-woman consulting practice out of what Amanda had privately described as "a lot of confidence for someone without a plan," and bought a rental property that her husband called a money pit for approximately eight months.
Priya was on her way to view a condo in Manhattan. Not to rent it. To decide which one.
Amanda was on her way to the same job she'd had since 2014.
The idea was never the thing. The move was the thing. And the move doesn't have to be brilliant. It just has to be first.