Information Overload--One Way to Cope

by Diane Eble

Do you ever feel paralyzed when you look at your email inbox?

I sometimes do. There's just too much to keep up with.

I sometimes long for the days before email, blogs, all the information over-glut. (Can you even remember what that was like?)

Yet, I have learned much through all the available media. It's a double-edged sword.

The complication is, how do you know whom to trust? There's so much HYPE, especially on the Internet.

So, here's what I do.

I decide on a few "most trusted advisers." I test them out, and if they're "the real deal." I tune in to them, and tune out the rest.

Theirs are the emails, newsletters, blogs I read.

And I only read them after I get my own most-critical tasks for the day done. (If you take Simpleology, you know that Joyner advises you to take care of your daily targets before even reading email. When I follow that advice, I get much more done.)

If I never get to them--oh well. They pile up, and maybe I read them, maybe I don't.

If I miss something important--oh well. At least I'm focusing on my most important targets.

I learned from Michael Masterson (one of my mentors) that you just have to pick your "gurus." Find the experts in whatever field you happen to need to learn about, people with whom you resonate, and let the rest go.

I have my Internet marketing mentors, my publishing mentors, my business mentors.

I'm very selective about whom I add to my list. I look for people whose style resonates with my own, who operate with integrity, and whose results are real-world.

I hope, of course, to become one of your "most-trusted advisors" concerning writng, publishing, marketing and promoting books and other information products.

The people I recommend are my own "most trusted advisers." People I know personally, and whom I've had the opportunity to "test."

I hope I, and the people I recommend, will help you cut down on "information overwhelm." No hype, no fluff, just the real deal, as best as I can judge.

By the way, one such mentor is Alex Mandossian. Find out why here--and how you can get more than $14,600 in marketing education from Alex and me, for 1/10th of the price.