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Chapter 17 | What’s a Dream Worth?

I’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.

—Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman

Jean describes herself as a high school dropout who’s now the president and CEO of her $25 million a year service business. She credits a dream she had when she was 28 years old as part of what got her started on her path to success. She says, “I was in a grocery store and noticed that there were coins scattered all down the aisles. It struck me as incredibly odd that everyone was walking right past these gold pieces while I was busy picking them up as fast as I could.”

She awoke from ...

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