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Helping Others to Succeed Online

Guest post by: Colette Morris

Article Overview: If you have never been a self employed person, and have just signed up to a work from home business, the mindset and the challenges and be daunting. This article sets out some pointers that could help new people focus on setting themselves up to work from home effectively.

Helping Others to Succeed Online



Six years ago I joined an MLM home business. I was an out of work contractor. I had searched and searched for many months online trying to find the elusive home business that would help me to be in the opportunity to work from home and to spend more time with my two boys.

Joining this company helped me to grow as an individual. They taught me that personal development in yourself is key to succeeding.

Changing your mental attitude when you first start to work for yourself is the hardest. From being and employee for many years, having a boss to tell you what you had to do on a day to day basis. Having it written in your contract that you work for 36 hours per week from Monday to Friday; having been told what time to go for lunch, how long to take for your lunch and when you are allowed to take your holidays. All this to now being your own boss is hard to adjust to at first.



Suggestions to help you transcend to the level of being an effective homeworker:

• Set out a dedicated work schedule. How many hours will you be able to set aside for your home business on a day to day basis. Make this realistic for yourself.

• Announce to your family your days and hours of work dedicated to your home business so that they will appreciate you are in a working environment, even though you are based from home.

• Prepare for yourself a goals orientated plan - 90 days, 120 days a year, 5 years, long term

• What is your purpose, your vision? It is important to have one as this will help you to focus on WHY you have chosen to work from home in the particular industry you are in.

• Working back on your 90 day play, what level of activity do you need to achieve the goals you have set yourself. How much time, cost, effort is required of you on a day to day basis.

• You have to hold yourself accountable, no one else is there to do so. A good way to hold yourself accountable would be to announce to family and friends your intentions and your goals, they will keep you in check by continuously asking you how you are getting on with your goals or intentions.

• Be responsible for your actions, working from home can be rewarding and has its benefits, but you need to be taking meaningful action in order to reap those rewards that are available. It is far to each to just mope around at home, doing something and nothing and not being effective at all.

• Read to help with your personal growth. If you are weak in a certain area, then go online to Amazon and try to find either a book or CD about the subject you are weak in. I found reading autobiographies of people who have achieved significantly in their life has been both motivational for me and inspirational, it has also given me ideas and thoughts for how I should interact with others in similar situations.

• Training - where possibly whether online, or if your home business has meetings, it is good to attend those, or using a tutorial, it is important to always keep yourself up to date with current training. Yes, it could take up time in your busy day, but so what, schedule it in as part of your working day. If you worked for an employer you would be going on courses regardless how busy or not your were at work.

• Become a servant to others, serve others by thinking of them and not yourself. What you must realise is that your home business depends on other people. This being the case you need to ensure that you provide a useful service to them. . It must be useful for the people who are your customer and not centred around you or gains for yourself.

It is important that even though at times you may feel down heartened, not seem to be making money as was promised, you need to stick to one thing, master it before moving on to another. Most of all never quit, so many people have given up and are probably just days, months or weeks away to success. Focus and work on yourself, the reason for success or failure will be with you and only you.

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