Many of us are afraid to take a vacation, for fear that when we return we will never catch up with email or what had transpired when we were offline. Or worse yet, we constantly check our email and social networks to stay up-to-date, afraid to even let our phones out of reach even when we sleep.
Multitasking seems the norm nowadays. Workers no longer seemingly have the luxury of being able to do just one thing at a time.
There are several ways to be relaxed...
Focus
“Be pointed about everything you do. To stay on track, prioritize your information into three categories: must know, should know and nice to know,” recommends Fox Business writer Lindsay Broder. It is a good exercise to mitigate information overload, and one that shouldn’t take too long.
Maintain
Another often-mentioned technique is to maintain a zero email inbox, or at least, trying to keep it that way. This means keeping just a few messages in your inbox and handling the vast flow immediately. The more unread messages that pile up in your inbox, the more out of control the world seems. I know many people who never delete a single message, or who are somewhat proud of the accumulation, as if it is some sort of badge of honor. Start using folders and archiving messages that aren’t important, and use that delete key liberally.
Stay on task
We all have been in situations where minutes or hours are lost to surfing the Web researching for work (or reading your favorite blogs). Again, remember to review your daily priorities and keep them in sight. Information overload doesn’t just impact you and the team around you, but your company’s broader workflow and processes. If one employee is bogged down in too much information, the bottleneck they create can cause a ripple effect all the way down the line, and that’s bad news for productivity.
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