#18 - Why you need to stop saying ”but.. I’m no good at tech”

Whenever I feel myself kind of getting into that, this saying just pops up in my head. And it is, if we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

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Hey. Hey everybody. It is Kate McGibbon here and welcome to episode 18 of the Doing It Online podcast. And today it's really a little bit of a tough love ass kicking. Because today I'm going to jump on my soapbox and rant a little about why you all need to stop saying that you're no good at tech. But I want to say that this, this ass kicking, it is done with love. I said it is tough love. It's not just, it's not just an ass kicking for fun. It is done with love. Because you see this one excuse that I hear over and over again from people who are wanting to create online courses or to create online funnels is that they're no good at tech. And these, having this and it is an excuse or having this little message that you're telling yourself again, again is something that is going to keep you stuck, but it's not actually keeping you stuck for the reasons that you think. So if you have ever said to yourself or ever thought even just for a second, oh, but I'm not just that techie or I'm sorry, but I'm just not that techy or I'm no good at tech or technology hates me. I once had a friend tell me she thought Google liked me better than her. Either way, today's episode is for you. Okay, so there are two reasons that having this little mantra telling yourself that you are no good at tech, telling it over and over, is keeping you stuck. The first reason, and let's start with a big one, is because it's actually not true. The truth is, you are no good at tech. Yet can you see the difference there? You see, as adults, we are so used to just being good at all the day to day stuff that we do. And as experts or people, you know, with some experience in our vocations, we're just used to being pretty good at that as well. And because we're so used to being good at things and things feeling second nature, it just feels weird and uncomfortable to have to do things that we're not good at yet. And that feels. Feeling that discomfort, we mistake for it being wrong or for us being bad at it. But that discomfort, that uncomfortable feeling, that's just the feeling of learning something new. And the thing is, the only reason that you have ever gotten good at anything in the past, and this is everything from being able to feed yourself dinner to be able to drive a car is that you just. That you practiced. You. You kept on practicing every, you know, again and again. And it probably was really uncomfortable those first few times, but you probably just don't remember it because it was so long ago. And I think the thing is, for so many of us, most of us, I'd say we do did most of our learning and around the same time. So it probably didn't feel weird to be learning new things. That was just how stuff felt. But now that we don't learn learn things very often, that feeling, that discomfort, we let it fluster us, we let it overwhelm us. We take it as a sign we're not good at something. We say things like, I should only do things in my zone of genius, and this isn't my zone of genius, which I'm not saying is not true. But the fact that you're not good at something yet doesn't mean you can't get good at it. So trust me when I say that you have definitely learned far more difficult things in your lifetime than how to schedule, you know, an Instagram post or how to send an email sequence. You absolutely have, but you just don't remember what it felt like to learn them. So the real catch 22 here is that if you use that excuse that something feels uncomfortable, and you don't like that uncomfortable feeling, if you use that as an excuse to not go and get the practice and the experience that you need for that feeling to go away, it never will. And so you will be right. You will be no good at tech because you don't go out there and actually learn how to be good at tech. And the best way to do that is to switch your mindset around it. Don't look at it as this evil, hard thing. Look at it as a new thing that you're learning like it's a new language. You're learning it because you want to learn it, because it's going to be useful. And yes, it's learning. So it's going to be. There's going to be parts that feel hard, but if you do it bit by bit, step by step, if you commit to the practice, if you commit to being okay to be a student and showing up and having that different mindset, it will start to get easier. It absolutely will. Like, if my grandpa can learn how to use Zoom from an iPad, we can all learn how to set up our online courseware or to set up an opt in. We absolutely can.

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Number two, the second reason why, you know, saying that you're not good at tech is keeping you stuck. And this one is a biggie. And you know, you may want to sit down for this. The second reason is, and this seems to be like the elephant in the room that people just aren't acknowledging. But if you have an online business, you have to be at least okay or comfortable with technology or you're going to have to pay someone to do it. But I would still say even if you outsource it, that you still need to have a base level understanding of how it works. Otherwise, you know, it's going to be, everything is going to feel foreign and difficult and you're not going to have the insights that you need. You're not going to be able to make the decisions that you need to make or to know what isn't, isn't working. Tech is a big part of online business every single day. You know, it's, it's so makes up so much of what you do and how you do it. So saying that I'm no good at tech or I hate tech, so I don't want to learn this or I don't want to try this or I'm going to let this overwhelm me and I'm not going to take action, it's kind of like saying I want to be a school teacher, a primary school teacher, but I hate kids. Like, can you see how kind of crazy that sounds? So, you know, you kind of have two choices here. If online business is the kind of business that you want, then you're going to have to, as I said, flip that mindset around. Tech being something that's overwhelming and scary to being something that you just, you know, bit by bit, are going to commit to learning and getting comfortable with. Now, that doesn't mean that you have to be the person in your business who does all the tech. And as I said before, you know, staying in your zone of genius, it is a good business strategy. But at the start, as you're getting started, you may not have the budget to outsource the technology. And also, I do really believe that knowing the basics is only going to be beneficial to you going forward. So, final little rant on. This is, and this is something that kind of clicked not so much around the tech, because for me, I've, you know, I've always been pro tech, so I was lucky enough to, I guess, be young enough and in that phase of, you know, being okay with learning when I started learning different software and tech. And then I've been able to sort of replicate how I learned and, and that my excitement for it and my genuine sort of passion for it with new technology as I've gotten older. But there's definitely been other parts of business in my life that I've have felt this feeling. So I'm not saying this from a place of being lucky enough to be, you know, a tech native, but this is one sort of like saying that I've, I saw, you know, I saw it pop up on Instagram and it really resonated with me. And it's something that now every time I feel myself saying, oh, yeah, but it's that, yeah, but, yeah, but I'm no good at that, or, yeah, but that's why this can happen. It's like almost going into like a little bit of victim mode. Like, it's not my fault. There's, you know, this is, there's this obstacle and I've got no control over it. Whenever I feel myself kind of getting into that, this saying just pops up in my head. And it is, if we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. Think about that one. I say it again. If we argue for our limitations, for example, if, you know, you know that to be able to grow the business that you want to grow, that you're going to have to set up a funnel, you're going to have to do a webinar, or you're going to have to grow your email list or you're going to have to create an online store or figure out how to take online payments. And you say, yeah, but I'm no good at tech. Guess what? You're right. You won't get better, you won't learn, you won't get better at tech. So you're correct. If you make enough, you know, if you fight for your excuses hard enough, you get to keep them. And nobody wants that. Nobody wants the fact that they said yeah, but in their head, to themselves at one point to be the reason that they, you know, didn't take action, they didn't grow, they didn't get to where they wanted. So like I said, today was a little bit of a tough love lesson. But if it resonated, let me know over on Instagram, just Tag me a McKibben, give me a shout out. I'd love to hear it. And I hope that this hasn't, you know, sent anyone into a spiral because I said it is meant with love. But there's a lot of truth here, my friends. And so just, you know, just remember it's, it's all about being, you know, flipping that script just slightly from yeah, but I'm no good at tech to I'm no good at tech yet and just see the difference and the power there is in making that super simple switch. So anyway, guys, that is it from me. I hope you all tune in next week. If you haven't subscribed, make sure you do so you don't miss out on a single episode. And in the meantime, guys, keep doing what you do and I'll see you all in the next episode. Bye.

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