"I know that you can do it"

My wish is that you are having a happy Monday.

Yesterday a friend issued a challenge to me when he said "The success of what you are doing will depend heavily on the quality of the person that you find. Instead of going all over the place hunting and trying to find the right person , why don't you do it yourself?"
I began to make excuses as to why I could not do what I needed done myself but his response to me was, "I am sure that I will be able to work with what you produce."
Some years   ago I got involved in construction and garnered enough skill to actually build my house with my own two hands. I earned enough money then to buy the construction materials but after that there was not enough left to pay for labor so I learned to do it myself. My friends were not pleased with what I was doing and I got told off many times because they felt I was killing myself doing it all by myself when they were more than willing to to give me the help that I needed and they were not be asking to be paid for their labors. Since that time I try to involve my friends in whatever I am doing.
Some years ago I had and idea that I could do a CD of poetry and I did attempt to make a start but inspite of my efforts I could not even begin and eventually I gave up but the idea remained with me. I now have more and better poems and two months ago I decided it was time to try again. This time I called a friend in Jamaica and sold her the idea of getting involved. She even paid to get professional help.
Last week I called a friend in Jamaica and asked him to see if he could work with the product that she had. Yesterday morning he called me and told me that she had been sold short and the product was not good. That was when he challenged me to do it myself.
I had considered the possibility that the product that she ended up with may not work and have in place the means to refund her the money she spent.The biggest loser I think will be the professional she had paid for help because he has lost out on his name getting publicized (At least through my work) and had he done a good job he would have gotten the other thing I have in mind to do.
Last year a thought came to me and it has remained my theme since then and it is this "Opportunity do not present itself to the man that had no use for it."
 Even as I write this I am scared because I know I will be taking up the challenge that my friend have issued to me. I reflect on the past and I am confident that I can do it but it is looking into the future that is scary because I can see a whole new world of possibilities before me.