You wouldn’t usually find me at a gathering like this, I’m quite a reserved person who likes to make calculated decisions and these folk are all rah rah rah song and dance and yippee and jump in head first, but it does seem like a reasonable venture, and I was invited by someone close to me so I went.

I’m undecided still as to weather to join the venture, but what did make itself pretty clear to me on Saturday was that I don’t love or want to pursue money. The closing presenter – a guy earning more than a million rand a year (70 + K per month) – made the statement that this will only really work for you if you have a burning desire to change your financial future. If he’d pitched his argument at having more free time I’d probably be sold on the idea, but I’m not easily baited by money. In fact, subconsciously, I’m quite determined not to make money the primary deciding factor in any of my major decisions, though I’ll admit that good fortune allows me to be that way. Of course if I spot this nice red shirt here for 300 bucks and that one there for 200 bucks, I’ll take the cheaper option, but I’d like to think that I won’t change jobs just for cash.

So while I think this particular venture – despite it’s misgiving of being very similar to a pyramid scheme – could work, does work, and could actually work for me, I’m concerned that it might change me into one of those people: the people that live their lives in pursuit of more cash and the next sale.

So my pondering is thus: can one join a venture filled with people whose motivation is money, and not give in to the environmental peer pressure, yet still make a success of it? Hmmm, I don’t know …