This year I've learned to be INTERdependent instead of just
INdependent. Stephen Covey believes we "evolve" from dependence to
independence to interdependence and this last change has seen huge
improvements in my life. It takes a lot of strength and trust to hand
something over to someone else and have faith that it will work out OK.



I'm now more comfortable with LETTING GO of the stuff I'm not so good
at and finding partners to fill those shoes for me. I now focus on
creating (I'm a creator wealth profile) and the opportunities are
abounding.



Currently, I'm teaming up with a fellow entrepreneur who's a well-connected
marketing and business buff and I believe that single partnership is
going to catapult me from S-Quadrant to B-Quadrant (Google: Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki) because, together,
we're building a business that will mostly run itself and we have
nearly no competition that can match our resources.



That's just 1 partnership.



Then there's my guitar forum. My partner there will soon be using his
contacts in the music industry to find us advertisers. Even at R300 per
month to start off with, we'll be making money and building our name as
an effective place for music companies to advertise their wares.



And what do I have to do? Not much except trust my partners and create stuff - which I love doing! :)



I'm working with a friend and fellow developer on a few projects and my designer in PE
as well. With all these projects, I'd normally try do it all alone and
you know what happen, right? Nothing. I get overwhelmed and my projects
end up being shelved for months or years at a time. Now they're
actually going somewhere!


Then there's Spot On Forex. I build the
technical systems and set up marketing campaigns, Ivan does the really
hard (trading) work and I get 50% of the profit. Not a half bad deal
considering systems only need to be built once ;)  Even if I stuff-up while creating them, I'll eventually get them right and then I'm done.



Each system I build multiplies my income. Even if it's %0.5, that's
compound growth and so the next %0.5 will be worth even more to me.



I foresee myself being a millionaire before I reach my 26th birthday. Beyaddaful!



No I'm not boasting. I believe sharing these types of stories will give
SOMEONE out there hope and if I give just one person enough hope to
persist through whatever they're going through now, my whole life has
been worthwhile!



At school (Jeppe Boys) we often had motivational speakers and our
headmaster always tried to motivate us by sharing us stories from
Covey's, "7 habits of highly effective teenagers". Most kids hate that
type of thing but, for some of us, that was like drinking from the holy
grail and I've since held the belief that it's worth speaking to 1,000
even if only 1 listens.