I read a lot of blogs (or at least i used to). After neglecting my enthusiastic collection of blog links (157) of THE top most readable material on the web for over an year, i decided it was time to change.
I made 3 folders
- Check daily – contains max 10 blogs i will check and read new articles from
- Tech Stuff – Has blogs, tech news and lots of similar stuff
- Photography stuff
The point is, the only way i could catch up on my reading was if i was not trying to catch up with a lot of things. In short, i was coping with information overload by just ignoring all that information.
So my solution was to arrange stuff so that i could catch up with the ones that mattered. The rest, well i might flip through them on evenings or weekends IF i get around doing that and i would still be better than before, and not ignore it totally.
Where else do we face overload and how do you cope ?
- email accounts
- Electronic stuff that you work with/want to buy
- Health notes from forwards and emails
- List of things to do / read etc
- Things to keep track off, and manage at work
- Education (exams skipped during school coz you would not score anyway?)
- Weight loss – (So much to do, might as well not try)
- Social Networking updates ?
- Cooking ?
- Stocks and Financial info ?
I wonder if there is any other way to cope with overload, other than just filtering … outsourcing ??
July 24, 2010 at 6:19 am
Life is too short to do all things we want. So best to keep it simple and not overload yourself with so many things! Convince yourself, prioritize your needs and dreams and take some off the list! Dreams and wishes are never ending and no one is a super hero in real life as to fulfill them all! Don’t try to be a perfectionist! ‘You’ overload yourself with a huge list and no one is responsible for it!
Pressurizing yourself with one of your need or dream at a time can be managed! But when you think of them all at once, it becomes too big! Divide and conquer is what i follow and let me tell you … it helps!