Information Overload

Do you often feel stressed and overwhelmed by the relentless barrage of information and email overload?

 

Have the lines between work and leisure fused together into a swirling orbit of never-ending texts, messages and tasks?

 

By early afternoon many of us feel the life force drain from our bodies as we struggle with the overwhelming task of trying to keep up.

 

Like the mythological Sisyphus––sentenced to an eternity of pushing a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down again––many of us are resigned to never being done, condemned to a lifetime of unending struggle. We live in constant reaction. Just as we answer one email, two more come in. We barely complete one project when we remember that another is behind schedule.

The exponential growth in emails and other technical distractions happened gradually, over a number of years, until we begin to get a gnawing sense that we've become the tools of our tools.

The results of living at the beck-and-call of instant communication and the unrelenting demand of 24-hour availability is causing health costs to sore, stress levels to rise and individual productivity to plummet.

• Up to 80% of all visits to primary care physicians are caused by stress.

• Information-overload costs the U.S. economy over a trillion dollars a year.

• Studies show that multitasking results in a 50% increase in errors and a 40% reduction in productivity.

 

But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way ... Really!

 

By learning how to take control of time and information––and by making these new controls effortless new habits––you'll not only reduce your levels of stress, but you'll discover many hours of free time and levels of productivity you never imagined.

By understanding how to wield the powerful tools of modern communication, you’ll learn ...

• how to reduce stress and increase your health, memory and cognition.

• to overcome multitasking and boost your productivity.

• to develop the mind-set to eliminate information-overload.

• how to proactively draw clear lines between work and leisure.

If you feel like your trapped in a continuously overloaded state, if it feels like you’re living at the whim of technology and the random demands of all those about you then consider asking yourself these questions;

• Are you achieving what you truly desire?

• Do you have the relationships and the satisfaction of accomplishment that comes with a fulfilling life?

• Are the financial, social, and emotional returns worth the cost?”

Ultimately you’re responsible for what happens in your life, and the price you pay is up to you. The cost can easily balloon into a lifetime of anger, stress and frustration, or you can invest a small amount of time to master the simple “new” skills that will serve you for the rest of your life.

 

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Why take this program?

 

You don't know how it happened, but somehow you feel like you’ve lost control. The great advancements like the Internet, email and easy access to information were supposed to make our lives more productive, easier and more enjoyable ... instead they've left us feeling overwhelmed and burnt out.

Stress is caused by a feeling of a lack of control. This modern "new" environment doesn’t foster slowing down, stepping back, and taking strategic control. Instead our days are all too frequently an endless series of reactions ... we respond to the "thing" that’s screaming the loudest.

People mistake being stressed out and busy with productivity and accomplishment because they haven’t been shown how to effectively manage technology and time.

In just twenty-nine days you can learn how to live in this frenetic world at a perfectly comfortable pace. You’ll learn how to accomplish far more with less effort. Because you’ll be more productive, you’ll no longer blur the lines of work and leisure.

How does it work?

By learning simple new habits. You’re going to learn how to take control of your day and determine exactly when you’ll do what you set out to do. You’ll schedule your day so that it’s no longer an endless series of “urgent” issues and interruptions.

Most people overlook the simple logic that we can only do one thing at a time, and as a result they squander their days with multitasking madness that produces far less than than their capabilities.

This program will help you to take complete control of your time and accessibility, and by doing so you’ll drastically reduce your levels of stress while defining your life, whether you’re working or playing.

How is that possible?

Because your mind will work completely differently than it used to. You’re going to see things differently. You'll be encountering the same problems – the same deluge of emails, the same demanding boss, the same snarling traffic jams – but with a new understanding you'll experience those events in completely different ways.

You'll have changed the method your mind uses to look at the situation because the techniques you'll have learned open up new neuron tracks and pathways, encourage and develop new thought processes, and help you build healthier habits when you engage with the same old situations.

The happiest and most successful people have learned to live by the simple, unassailable logic that they can’t know everything and they can’t do everything ... nor do they wish to try. They live with a calm, purposefulness. They accomplish a great deal with a minimal amount of effort.

In twenty-nine days you’re going to learn the same principles. You’re going to take complete control of your time and accessibility, and by doing so you’ll drastically reduce your levels of stress while defining your life, whether you’re working or playing.

 

The 29 DAYS program breaks down into four easy weeks, each starting on a Monday.

You'll receive two emails every day from your virtual online coach so that you have the support you need, right there with you. Your online coach will help you keep on track so that you can actively build new patterns in your mind through repetition.

Week One: Commitment and Awareness Week

If you aren't committed to your goal, you won't succeed. In this first week, we'll help you commit to your communication and stress managment goals with a strong foundation that supports and encourages you when you fall prey to those old destructive routines.

You'll learn observation and awareness techniques that help you understand your current habits, such as when you're most likely to fall victim to them and what triggers the desire to give in. 

Week Two: Preparation Week

After you've committed to your goal you can start to prepare for the change ahead.

This is where the 29DAYS program really sets itself apart from all the rest – you develop your very own ideas on how to make permanent changes.

It's important that you take control of your own personal changes. We'll help you build powerful new neuron tracks and thought processes, and you'll feel empowered to change by being in full control of how those changes happen.

Week Three: Taking Action

Enough planning; it's time to get to work. By developing awareness of your current habits and tailoring your plans for change to your personal weak spots and desires, you'll be more than prepared to put your plan to good use.

Our daily lessons, reminders, and your personal discoveries have helped you develop the strong neural changes that make it easy for you to replace those bad behaviors with your planned good ones. Your take-action steps may be small, but you'll be able to put them in place knowing they're here to stay. For good.

Week Four: Staying the Course

You've probably tried to change your habits before – but slipped back into your old destructive routines. That's why this final week is so important, because this is when you cement those new habits into place and learn to stay the course.

And by this point, you're nearly at the end! If you stick with your program through the final week, it will be nearly impossible for you to go back to your old habits.

Developing new habits is a process, and you'll already be reaping the rewards of the small changes you've made.

The best news is that these changes happen permanently. You won't ever go back. You won't ever slip back into your old ways again.

In just twenty-nine days, you'll have a new lease on life. A new way of experiencing your day.

Introduction

 

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. 
 
~ Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
 
So begins Charles Dickens classic work A Tale of Two Cities. The French Revolution had brought the worst of times and the best of times to both France and England. Dickens words uncannily described the mood of the world at that time. 
 
But here’s the irony: These words are equally accurate at describing our present world in the age of information. The information age has allowed people the world-over unprecedented rights of liberty and opportunity while simultaneously causing people to feel overloaded, overwhelmed, and stressed out by the tsunami of “bits and bytes” and round-the-clock connectivity. Most people are living a life of reaction. Whether they’re reacting or rushing about, they’re trapped in a continuously overloaded state, living at the whim of technology––too uncertain or just too busy to do anything about it.
 
In fact, Alvin Toffler predicted this very thing in his 1970 best-selling book Future Shock. He coined the term information overload, which describes the difficulty a person experiences when trying to understand an issue or make a decision when faced with too much information.
 
Like the Greek mythological Sisyphus––sentenced to an eternity of pushing a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down again––many of us are resigned to never being done, condemned to a lifetime of unending struggle. Just as we answer one email, two more come in. We barely complete one project when we remember that another is behind schedule. Our computers, smartphones, and iPods are loaded with music we haven’t heard and movies we haven’t seen. Workdays and weekends have fused together in a circular stream of never-ending texts, tasks, and messages.
 
The results of living at the beck and call of instant communication and the unrelenting demand of 24-hour availability is rising health costs and stress levels, coupled with plummeting individual productivity. Put another way, all work and no play makes Jack burn out … but it doesn’t have to be this way … really! By learning how to take control of time and information––and making these new controls effortless new habits––you’ll not only reduce your levels of stress, but you’ll discover hours and hours of free time and levels of productivity you never imagined. 
 
The following story is not only timeless but also perfectly demonstrates how gentle and unharried your life can be if you remember that stressed, frantic activity accomplishes little of value.
 
There once was a little forest village that held an annual wood-chopping contest to determine who would be the year’s champion lumberjack. After many matches it was down to the last two undefeated contestants: a seasoned pro who had seen a great many years in the forest, and a young, strong upstart who was determined to be the new king of the woodpile.
 
The event was an hour long, and the object was simply to chop as much wood as possible during that time.
 
Both lumberjacks got off to a fast start, swinging away with chips flying all over the place. Then, after about 20 minutes, the older man suddenly walked away, only to reappear a short time afterward. Then, much to everyone’s surprise, about 15 minutes later he did the same thing again. He stopped chopping and disappeared into the woods.
 
By now, the younger competitor was sensing victory. Surely the old-boy was running out of steam and was too embarrassed to rest in front the villagers.  Although the younger man’s legs and arms burned from the strain, his lungs and muscles screaming for mercy, he drove himself to fight through the pain, secure in the knowledge that if he never relented victory was assured.
 
However, when the judges added up all the wood that had been cut, amazingly the more experienced woodcutter had won.
 
The younger man couldn’t believe what he was hearing and seeing, and he openly challenged his opponent. “How is this even remotely possible? I worked like crazy and never let up for one second for the entire hour. And you! You took two breaks! How could you have possibly beaten me? What in the world did you do when you walked away on your breaks?”
 
The wise champion looked him straight in the eye and said, “I sharpened my axe.”
 
Taking the time to sharpen your axe is learning how to effectively control your time so that you’ll automatically accomplish the most, with the least effort, in the shortest amount of time.
 
The Faster We Run, The Faster the Wheel Turns
 
Many of us feel our life force drain from our bodies––like a daily bloodletting––as we wrestle with the overwhelming task of keeping up with information-overload and the endless onslaught of incoming emails. Yet, like the Siren’s call, we can’t quite resist constantly checking our inbox … just to see if this time there’s something really interesting.
 
We have to ask ourselves, “Is this all worth it? Are we achieving what we truly desire? Do we have the relationships and the satisfaction of accomplishment that comes with a fulfilling life? Are the financial, social, and emotional returns worth the cost?”
 
Keeping Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs
 
This 29 DAYS program will show you how to live in this frenetic world at your own pace, in complete control, by developing the right habits ... like regularly sharpening your “axe.” The results are immediate and they’ll last a lifetime. 
 
That means you’ll no longer respond like one of Pavlov’s dogs at every ring, beep, or chirp. You’re going to accept that you can’t possibly digest the incessant deluge of information available to you––nor will you want to. You’re going to take complete control of your time and accessibility, and by doing so you’ll drastically reduce your levels of stress while defining your life, whether you’re working or playing.
 
Ultimately you, no one else, is responsible for what happens in your life. Those who learn to control their environment will master the information age and determine their lives and careers. Those who don’t will be left further and further behind. 
 
I welcome you to join me for the next twenty-nine days on this life-changing journey. 
 
See you on Day One.
 
~ Richard
 
 
 

29 DAYS ... to managing

information-overload and stress!

 

Table of Contents

 

WEEK ONE: COMMITMENT AND AWARENESS 

 

 

DAY 1:

a.m. Why 29 Days? What’s Going to Happen?

p.m. How We Learn and How We Remember: The Science of Thinking Smarter

 

DAY 2:

a.m. What Is Information-Overload?

p.m. Understanding the Difference between Information and Information-overload

 

DAY 3:

a.m. The Simple Logic of Effective Time Management

p.m. What Is Effective Time Management

 

DAY 4:

a.m. Multitasking: The Grand Delusion: (Part One)

p.m. What Is Stress?

 

DAY 5:

a.m. Multitasking: The Grand Delusion (Part Two): Why It’s Impossible!

p.m. The “Modern” History of Stress

 

DAY 6:

a.m. Multitasking: The Grand Delusion (Part Three): An Expensive Folly

p.m. Stress and Your Heart: The Perils of Chronic Stress

 

DAY 7:

a.m. Multitasking: The Grand Delusion (Part Four): The High Cost of Workplace Multitasking

p.m. Unhappy with Your Weight? Then Stop Stressing!

 

WEEK TWO: PREPARATION FOR ACTION 

 

DAY 8:

a.m. Setting Your Goals

p.m. Apples, Pears, and Fat Storage

 

DAY 9:

a.m. The Irresistible Call of Email

p.m. Ulcers! Not Guilty as Charged

 

DAY 10:

a.m. Have You Fallen Victim to ADT (Attention Deficit Trait)?

p.m. Immunity, Stress, and Disease

 

DAY 11:

a.m. Email!: What Hath God Wrought?

p.m. How Valuable Are Your Memories?

 

DAY 12:

a.m. Understanding Email - Why Does it Create Stress? (Part One)

p.m. Do We Have Different Kinds of Memory?

 

DAY 13:

a.m. Understanding Email: Why Does It Create Stress? (Part Two)

p.m. How Are Long-Term Memories Retrieved?

 

DAY 14:

a.m. The High Cost of “Free” Email

p.m. Thinking and Stress

 

WEEK THREE: TAKING ACTION 

 

DAY 15:

a.m. Is It Multitasking or Is It Task Avoidance?

p.m. Working toward Your New Habit

 

DAY 16:

a.m. You’re Not Paid to Do Email!

p.m. The Simple Facts of Stress

 

DAY 17:

a.m. Placing a Call to 1-800-Email-Dumpster

p.m. Coping with Stress: Outlets

 

DAY 18:

a.m. You’ve Achieved an Empty Inbox ... Now What?

p.m. Coping with Stress: Social Support

 

DAY 19:

a.m. Email Is NOT a Communication Tool (Part One)

p.m. Unpredictability and Stress

 

DAY 20:

a.m. Email Is NOT a Communication Tool (Part Two)

p.m. The Power of Belief

 

DAY 21:

a.m. Becoming an Email Minimalist

p.m. Stress: A Perception That Things Are Getting Worse

 

WEEK FOUR: STAYING THE COURSE 

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