What to do before you enter into any partnership.

Ten things to do before you start a project!

1. What do you appreciate about the other person? Do you know that the biggest need in humans is to be appreciated and seen? If you start from a place of appreciation, lines of communication will be open.
2. What is your biggest vision for yourself within this partnership? Some of us lose ourselves inside partnerships. We go along with the more dominent voices. When we think of ourselves within the partnership, we can stay true to our one voice inside the dual vision.
3. What is your hope for this partnership? We all bring hopes to any relatinship. Some hopes can be fulfilled, some can’t. So it is best to be as honest as possible with what you hope for upfront. Rather than being diappointed later. Each person brings a different hope inside the same vision. Talk about what you hope for.
4. What do you see in the other that you do not have? A truly good partnership is one where your partner has qualties that you don’t. Are they willing to try things that you can’t or may be scared to try on your own?
5. What exactly do you want to make? Be clear about what you are actually making and how are you going to make it. Details are best!
6. Money! How should you handle it. Fifty-fifty split? Based on work? Often for people in creative fields, this is the hardest thing to talk about.
7. Schedules! What life events are coming when you may not be available? Talking about availablity is good. And it is important to talk about when you won’t be available.
8. What if we don’t want to do this project? What is the exit plan? Get this is writing first so there are no hurt feelings.
9. Adding other collaborators? If the project needs more help, how will you add people? What if one of you likes a potential collaborator and the other doesn’t? How will you handle that?
10. What is our purpose? This is something even bigger than your project. The mission of your mastery. A life goal that you share together.

Take your time with these questions. Write different versions separately then present them to each other. Talk about the answers. Then agree or disagree until you come to a good compromise.

They will be the baseline of your rich future parternship.