1. You get more e-mail newsletters than you can possibly read, but are afraid to unsubscribe for fear that you will miss something important. (News flash: you may already be missing something important, since you can’t read them all!)
2. You download every audio that comes your way and spend hours listening to them in your car.
3. You can’t walk by a newstand or stand in line at the grocery store without checking out the headlines.
4. You can’t go more than a little while without checking your e-mail.
5. You have a mass of unorganized magazine clippings or Internet “favorites.”
If more than two of the above describe your life, or if one of them is causing problems with other people in your life, you may be an information junkie.
You are not alone – there are lots of us out there. We live in the “information age.” And we are literally DROWNING in information.
Here’s how to come up for air:
1. Recognize that information is no longer scarce. There is little need to “save” information, because it is always just a Google search away.
2. Recognize that information is no longer power (see #1). Power comes from analyzing and digesting and USING information.
3. If a bit of information is useful to you, then put it to use. Otherwise, let it go.
Information without implementation is clutter. – Bill Baren and Patrick Dominguez
(from their e-book: 5 Time Mastery Techniques to Double Your Productivity Every Day)
