* Pressure to 'prove yourself': telecommuters sometimes feel need to prove that they really are much more productive at home than their coworkers in office. This can lead to long hours and significant stress.

* Lack of social contact: some people genuinely enjoy talking to their co-workers. When they being to work from home, they don't have that type of social interaction anymore. It's very easy to feel isolated and alone.

* Misconceptions about home workers: unfortunate but true, there are people who believe that anyone who "works from home" is really just lazing around and having a vacation day at company's expense. Can you handle remarks of this nature from coworkers, or even friends and family?

Everyone focuses on BENEFITS of telecommuting - no surprise, since who wouldn't enjoy comfort and flexibility of working from home? However, it's important to also look at problems surrounding telecommuting. Make no mistake, telecommuting is a change in LIFESTYLE! Only you can decide if it's right one for you.

Next, take top 10 names on list and in next five days take a concrete step that moves you toward doing business with them. Maybe they need more information about what you do. After you have finished with top 10 move on to next 10 until you reach end of list. During this process be sure and look carefully for LIKE MINDED people. Once you have completed this process a time or two you will notice that size of your community has grown. Expect it to grow more more effort you put in.

THE BOTTOM LINE OF COMMUNITY

How can a community of like minded individuals help you? If you get nothing more from this experiment than developing a group of contacts that can help you evaluate opportunities and give you HONEST feedback you will be way ahead of game. If, however you persevere and find that community of like minded people, you will reap rewards for years to come.