Ever found yourself doing one of these things?

Spending 6 hours trying to create an email newlsetter template.

Spending hours trying to set up your social networking applications.

Spending hours trying to learn Quicken or some other bookkeeping software.

Unless you have oodles of time to spare, and really enjoy this, this is not the best use of your time.

I see too many people use technology and organization fears/woes as an excuse for not getting "out there." It's too big of a pattern to deny that this really another form of resistance to letting your gifts shine in your private practice.

So now that you're aware of this, if you would like to change your experience of technology, and it's application to your wellness business, the first thing you must do is to change your story.

Your story may now be something like this: "Technology is overwhelming. It takes me 6 hours to create an newsletter template or to set up my Facebook profile. Ugh!"

(Believe me when I say - I feel your pain and I've SO been there.)

It's okay. But the greater truth is, the solution to this challenge doesn't reside in this pattern of thought.

Your new story could be (and where a possible solution could bubble up from): "Even though all of this technology feels overwhelming at the moment, I'm getting better and better at it. I can't wait until I have it down!"

Without this change of thinking, it's going to be difficult to create a different result.

Once you find a new "technology mantra" that changes how you feel about technology, you can move on to the next step.

Here are 3 ways you can use technology to grow your business without getting lost in hours of "how-to hell".

1) Hire a local college IT student (or computer savvy neice or nephew) for $10-$15 per hour for private lessons

Make a list of what you want to learn. Facebook/Linkedin/Navigating the internet tips and tricks/using outlook/setting up email signatures, etc…

Schedule weekly time with this person, every week, until you feel confident to do it on your own. (Create your own manual to refer too!)

2) Take a local community college course on the technology you want to learn

There are plenty of classes that taught by patient instructors if you know where to look.

Alternatively, there are online courses too.

3) Hire a virtual assistant (a "VA")

You don't have to do it all yourself. You could outsource and make it part of your business model.

a) either hire a VA to set you up with what you want to do - email newsletters, blog, wordpress websites, etc… and you take it from there

b) or set you up and handle ALL of the production of what you want to do - you just give that person the content and they take care of the rest

So really consider that trying to figure it all out on your own may not be the best option.

It's a waste of your valuable time and in the end, costs more in opportunity lost than hiring help you may need.

Consider if you're not willing to do this, you may be hiding behind technology instead of using technology to make a difference.

To your success,

Karin

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