Comments on: What’s So Overwhelming About Information Overload? http://www.delightfulwork.com/2008/01/16/what%e2%80%99s-so-overwhelming-about-information-overload/ Tom Volkar ~ Career Coaching Your Leap to Self-Employment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:51:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tom Volkar http://www.delightfulwork.com/2008/01/16/what%e2%80%99s-so-overwhelming-about-information-overload/#comment-95 Tom Volkar Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:35:37 +0000 http://delightfulwork.com/2008/01/16/what%e2%80%99s-so-overwhelming-about-information-overload/#comment-95 That’s an excellent point, Andrea, looking within beats putting our faith in the outside experts every time. Our core guidance is there for the asking. That said, I think it's important to recognize that there is a very good reason why we happened to visit one blog over another or decide to open one email out of 20. We see what we need to see to support the decisions we need to make. The key then is simply taking the actions and adjusting as we go. What a wild ride it is. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance on this beautiful journey. That’s an excellent point, Andrea, looking within beats putting our faith in the outside experts every time. Our core guidance is there for the asking.

That said, I think it’s important to recognize that there is a very good reason why we happened to visit one blog over another or decide to open one email out of 20.

We see what we need to see to support the decisions we need to make. The key then is simply taking the actions and adjusting as we go. What a wild ride it is. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance on this beautiful journey.

]]> By: Andrea Hess|Empowered Soul http://www.delightfulwork.com/2008/01/16/what%e2%80%99s-so-overwhelming-about-information-overload/#comment-96 Andrea Hess|Empowered Soul Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:23:13 +0000 http://delightfulwork.com/2008/01/16/what%e2%80%99s-so-overwhelming-about-information-overload/#comment-96 I think you're right - we have so many opportunities right at our fingertips. Information is power. We can inform ourselves so easily and quickly in order to make our own decisions these days. What creates overwhelm in us, I think, is that there are so many sources out there ready to tell us exactly what to do. We think of a project or venture, go to inform ourselves - and there are so many sources of information telling us with great authority that we simply must take steps A - Z, because it's what works. Instead of informing ourselves about the next step that is perfect and right for us, we get the thirty next steps - or possibly several different versions of the next thirty steps. And that is definitely a good way never to get started! Blessings, Andrea I think you’re right - we have so many opportunities right at our fingertips. Information is power. We can inform ourselves so easily and quickly in order to make our own decisions these days.

What creates overwhelm in us, I think, is that there are so many sources out there ready to tell us exactly what to do. We think of a project or venture, go to inform ourselves - and there are so many sources of information telling us with great authority that we simply must take steps A - Z, because it’s what works.

Instead of informing ourselves about the next step that is perfect and right for us, we get the thirty next steps - or possibly several different versions of the next thirty steps. And that is definitely a good way never to get started!

Blessings,
Andrea

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