Are you in Information Overload?

I know that I am.

Yes, I confess it…I am overloaded with information.

But I have to also say that it’s not all the time.  And most of the time I like where I am at with all of this new information coming at me.  It creates a buzz (not an illegal buzz).  It’s exhilarating.  But it can also be exhausting. And it’s my own responsibility to manage the information “feeders” that sometimes inundate me.

Where is it all coming from?

Back in the 60′s and 70′s there was a promise that these “new” advances…computers, cell phones, pagers, fax machines, voice mail, answering machines, etc. were supposed to help us work more efficiently and work less.  Yeah.  Right.

Now we are seeing other new sources of information…Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, and on and on (There are hundreds of social media outlets with more coming on daily it seems), the amount...