Yesterday afternoon I had coffee with Professional Business Coach Curt Becker. He said he had surfed around this blog and really liked the way I processed information. “I mean, how often can someone take something like a bad haircut and turn it into a business insight?” he said incredulously, adding that I must be high on the INTUITIVE marker on the Myers-Briggs personality model. I was quite flattered.

No doubt I try very hard to relate my regular life to my professional writing business. When I was consumed a dispute regarding money, I wrote about a business woman needing to find a little testicular fortitude to deal with other business people. When I got lonely and sad, I wrote about converting bad energy to good for your business’ sake. I also tried to measure the impact getting dumped has on a small business owner.

So, this morning in the shower, I tried to figure out how to make real meaning out of being sick with a nasty cold that makes my eyes red as fire, my throat close up when I try to swallow, my ear ache. I spent my whole shower trying to discern what the heck that has to do with being a small business owner.

My conclusion: it has nothing to do with being a small business owner. I’m just sick.

I spent two days trying to figure out how to relate the fact that I don’t have a salt shaker and I have the dusty remnants of a disposable salt shaker that I stole from a hotel when I traveled. Guess what? It doesn’t relate. I just need to stop being the only person I know who doesn’t own a salt-and-pepper shaker set.

I actually contemplated trying to work Biore Pore Strips into a blog post. I keep going back to using them to try to shrink the pores around my nose. They suck. They’ve always sucked. And I was sucked into buying TWO SETS years ago, even though I knew they didn’t work when I bought them. I’ve given this way too much thought, and I can honestly say my skin care failures do not relate to my business plan.

My social life has picked up quite a bit lately. I’ve been attending some parties and meeting really nice people for coffee. And I went out on an actual date with a very interesting guy I would like to see again. I think this is pretty cool. But try as I might, I’m finding it impossible to relate my social life to my life as a business owner.

Thus, for the readers who come here for my in-depth analyses of my business failures and successes, insights and mistakes, I offer an apology. Today I’m sick, and I got nuthin’.

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