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Thursday, May 08, 2008

"In with the New" Ad Nauseum

* The Smithsonian Museum adds more than 1,000,000 items to its collection each year, most of which are not seen by the public.

* The fully printed documentation for every feature and system on a Boeing 757 outweighs the plane.

* The typical U.S. executive annually receives more than 54,000 e-mails, most of them spam.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Your Own Knowledge and Wisdom

When you draw upon your own accumulated knowledge and the wisdom that you develop, you're able to intermittently free yourself from ever accelerating flows of information.




Thursday, April 10, 2008

Life is Finite, Information Infinite

Too much information violates our senses and even becomes harmful. As you receive more information, you experience stress, anxiety, and even helplessness. Your perception of breathing space is adversely and directly influenced by the more news, information and details that you ingest, or believe you have to ingest.

* In 1302, the Sorbonne Library in Paris housed 1,338 books, most handwritten, representing nearly all of humankind's accumulated knowledge spanning a few thousand years.
* In 2005, at least 730,000 books are published each year -- more than 2,000 a day.

In today's business environment we are being pulled in so many directions at once!Recognize, with the clarity of death, that life is finite; you cannot wistfully ingest the daily deluge of information/communication and expect to achieve balance.

Don't passively yield to the din and settle for living your life in what's left over after each day's onslaught. Hereafter make sensible choices about what is best ignored and what merits your time and attention.




Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Giving Your Brain a Boost

According to an article in the Big News Network, this endless year of campaigning could have a silver lining. Election-year politics could give your brain a boost: "the fever pitch of the season can," says Neuro-pharmacologist John D. Roache of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio inspire us in many ways. "The brain has hard-wired systems that control attention and learning in processes that motivate us, including hunger, sex drive and social involvement." An interest in politics can perhaps stimulate these systems in the brain!

We should be so lucky!

"As we listen to the candidates and think about what is being said, the brain processes the information, which grows neural connections and increases the neurochemical signaling that is associated with learning and memory," says Roache. Actively participating in the election campaigns may be even more beneficial than merely following them.

"If we become emotionally engaged and even become politically active by going to a rally or actively campaigning for a candidate, then the greater levels of emotion or commitment further enhance the brain processes and connect them all the more with the emotion and physical activity involved," he said. ...Here's hoping!




Thursday, February 28, 2008

Diminish Credit Junk Mail

Here's a nice feature to reduce receiving information you don't want or need. OptOutPrescreen enables you to "stop the credit-card-offer madness." Upon signing up on the site, you can opt to stop receiving credit card offers permanently or for the next five years.




Thursday, February 14, 2008

Finding Info by Googling

Google is the number one search engine in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. Google now provides an interface for 120 languages and offers results in 35 languages. Remarkably, more than 50% of Google traffic is from outside the U.S.

So... how easily can you be found, on Google.com?




Monday, February 11, 2008

Eliminate Unwanted Mailings

Catalogchoice.org offers a free service to help you “cut off the catalogs” for good. Simply click and select which the catalogs you do not want to receive instead of having to call each company to cancel.




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Is the constant crushing burden of information and communication overload dragging you down? By the end of your workday, do you feel overworked, overwhelmed, stressed, and exhausted? Would you like to be more focused, productive, and competitive, while remaining balanced and in control?

If you're continually facing too much information, too much paper, too many commitments, and too many demands, you need Breathing Space.


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