Success Can Be Yours: Become an Empathic
Telecommuter
By: Sylvie Fortin
Did you know that some people
aren't successful telecommuters simply because they are trying
to work from home for the wrong reasons? Indeed, most prospective
telecommuters fail in their goal because they are focused
on the wrong reasons to want to work from home. They tend
to be 'self-focused' rather than focused on the employer's
needs. In order to be truly successful, you must first change
the way you think about working from home.
You must realize that you
are not the one who decides where you are going to work from.
Ultimately, it is the employer who must agree to hire you
to work from your home. If you approach your work at home
goal slightly differently and start thinking like your employer
would, you will be far better able to get a telecommuting
position. You will have placed yourself outside of your own
needs and will be focused on your employer's needs!
Think about this concept for
a minute; really think about it. If you truly want to be successful
as a telecommuter, you must step outside of yourself. You
must start thinking like your prospective client. You must
stop thinking about your own needs and start thinking about
what your prospective employer needs from you.
This one simple concept is a
critically missing component of most job search efforts. Most
jobseekers make the biggest mistakes by approaching prospective
clients or employers with clearly selfish motivations showing.
Instead of saying "My services may be valuable to you because
___," they approach employers with "I want the job because I
need ___."
If you think about it, haven't
we all been guilty of doing exactly this at one time or the
other? We are all essentially selfish creatures. It is the
nature of the human condition. It takes a lot of struggle and
effort to change our mind set so that we focus on the needs of
others rather than our own. It's not something that happens
overnight, but if you consciously will yourself to switch your
focus, you will find that you begin to approach everything in
life with a whole new vision! Your eyes begin to open with
awareness of what is really going on around you. See how
different your future can be, simply by turning yourself into an
empathic telecommuter.
In other words, if you start
acting like an empathic telecommuter, you will "Put yourself
into your customer's shoes and try and imagine what he or she
needs."
It’s time for you to start to
train your mind to forget all about why you want to work from
home and start to focus on why your potential customer needs you
to work from your professional home office.
This simple "turn of the mind"
will transform every aspect of your life! You will find that
success and money come more easily to you and your prospective
customers will sense that you really care about their needs.
They will have more trust in your ability to go beyond what they
expect of you.
Believe it or not, when you
become an empathic telecommuter, you will never again need to
search for the right opportunities, because you will find that
all the right opportunities will be drawn to you!
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This article is excerpted from “You
Can Work in Your PJs”, a real world guide to telecommuting.
Sylvie Fortin works from home full time and wrote this book
to share her unique techniques with others. You can download
your copy of “You Can Work in Your PJs” by visiting
http://www.inyourpjs.com
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