Information Overload

If I were to take a guess, I’d say that many folks probably have at least one thing in common: they find life dizzying.Yeah, sure, we all have varying degrees of just how busy life can make us, but there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t talk with someone who is just a bit overwhelmed with everything going on in our world.

So why do we listen to it all? Why do we subject ourselves to the constant bombardment of news in the form of newspapers, the radio, the Internet, podcasts and books? We want to know what is going on. We can’t help but need to know what is going on, even if knowing isn’t exactly good for us. And don’t get me wrong. i’m not saying that we should all walk around uninformed—there is enough of that too. I am saying that we can’t let all of this information overload us. It is important to be informed, to digest the material we read and decide what is relevant to our lives and those around us. But panicking has never been helpful in any situation. It drives up our blood pressure, stresses us out and most likely leads to poor decision making.

Lesson learned? Take it one day at a time and do your research before letting anything you see or read knock you off kilter. Happy writing this week!