Being a technophobe, the computers and the internet can on some days seem like a curse. It took me a long time to even get to e-mailing a person and knowing how to make an attachment. Just trying figure out how a computer or program “thinks” was a big puzzle for a long time.
With time, practice, along with clearing some of my negative beliefs about technology, I get along pretty well now. I can even help out some of my friends and clients with tasks that before seemed way too difficult.
When I get stuck I ask my virtual assistant to do it, and to send me an e-mail later telling me the step by step process so that I can do it myself later. If it’s something too detailed and tricky for me to even to want to do it, I delegate this work permanently to my Yuck Bucket. Then I outsource it to my VA or someone else who both enjoys this kind of work and is infinitely more competent.
Quite frankly after many years of trying to master certain technical and mechanical jobs, I’m more than happy to let these tasks go. I’ve lived too long and wasted too much of my life energy with the mistaken theory that if I tried hard enough I would be able to master such tasks. While I may have achieved some competence, mastery certainly eluded me.
I just don’t have the interest and the facility in certain areas, to ever get really good at these tasks. Setting aside my ego, that would like to excel at everything, I have liberated my life. Now I have more time for the work I really love, understand and am passionate about.
How about you? Are there some tasks that you should be leaving to others. Go make a list and figure out how to delegate them. If you are having trouble doing even this, find a buddy or a coach and do it with them. Your life is too precious to waste it on stuff you hate!
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