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Declare Your Independence Day – Information Overload Be Gone!

It’s the new plague. And a highly contagious epidemic, from which no one is immune.

Are you showing any symptoms? I feel like:

• I’m working all the time, but not getting that much accomplished.
• I’m working on 10 projects at once, but none get finished.
• My ‘to-do’ list never gets completed.
• I’m in meetings all day and don’t have time to work.
• I bring my laptop to meetings and pretend to take notes while surfing the web.
• I’m answering email all day and don’t have time to work.
• I answer email during conference calls and in meetings.
• I have less and less time to plan, not to mention free time.
• I have less and less time to learn, not to mention creative time.
• I can never get to things quickly enough.
• I sit down at my computer and end up doing something different than I planned.
• I am eating lunch at my desk, mired in my virtual inbox.
• I make calls while driving, and even send the occasional text, even though I know I shouldn’t.

Informationoverloaditis.

If you checked off three or more, you’ve got the disease. 8 or more and we need to rush you to an unplugged vacation. All of the above and you need a sabbatical!