Business & Investing are Team sports!

Kia  Ora,

In the last blog I commented about being negative. There is one other time when I am negative as are most people when you have set backs.

This is where one comment by Robert Kiyosaki hit me. In the school system if you co-operate it is called cheating, where as to survive in business & investing you need to build a team of people you can trust.

Now for my security business I know I can get the right people on the operational & even much of the administration side of things as they come from the military & understand team work.

One of the things those of who have being in the military struggle with when leaving is the actual lack of teamwork in the civilian workplace.

It is the other parts of my team that I struggle with. Like accountants, lawyers, investors & any other add ons. Trying to find those that one you can trust, two understand where you want to go with your business, three are prepared to educate you & lastly know more than you in what you are looking at.

Another quote from Robert is if you are the smartest person in the room then you are in trouble & I have being the smartest person in the room with so called professionals.

But what my study has found as I go through this financial education process is the most important team member is your partner in life. Something I am sadly lacking at present.

It is that person to lean on & listen  when things go wrong as it does.

When you go back in history you see it & though most of the examples are American, you can see it anywhere.

Henry Ford was encouraged by his wife through out, Thomas Edison found each night he came in, no matter what time, his wife was waiting for him to hear about his day. Good & bad. Everyone tends to forget when they turn on their lights that he failed 10,000 times before he got it right. He needed some support somewhere.

Those examples though tend to follow the saying "behind every good man there is a good woman". But it works the other way too.

Today it tends to be more equals, where maybe early one one realises their dreams then they shift to realise the others dream.

Or the one I like is Robert & Kim Kiyosaki where they have set up their own businesses as well as being in business together, so they are not reliant on each other. It has made them closer from all accounts.

The biggest point though for your partner seems to be they must understand your mindset, dreams & goals.

You can have a relationship with different mindsets, but it makes it harder & during the hard times each will revert to their type, causing friction.