Infomaniac Update

2008-10-19 | Filed Under Virtual Assistance |

It’s been tough trying to keep up with Janet Barclay and her Information Diet, but I have managed to curb my intense desire to information gather, at least over the past couple of weeks.

First, I had so much work two weeks ago that I didn’t have TIME to read all my RSS feeds, Google alerts, e-zines, and emails from a nice guy in Nigeria who wants to give me $12 million. It would be great if that could be a weekly occurrence, but unfortunately, I’m not usually THAT busy :-)

Last week I was on vacation without Internet access. Now that REALLY slowed down my infomaniac impulses! I had to settle for flipping through the stack of magazines that I had brought with me, and reading the ebooks that I had downloaded previously and stored on my hard drive. (Thank God I had thought ahead!)

While on vacation, I did have time to think about how much time I did waste on aimless browsing and unfocused research. So I created a list of changes that I’m going to implement this week. That includes:

The hard part is fighting the temptation to add more alerts and feeds and what-evers once I have the old ones cleaned out. OK – now that I think of it – that would be impossible. They don’t call it Infomaniac “addiction” for nothing. I guess I’ll try to schedule time every 6 months to do an information search and purge, and hope for the best.

What is your favorite recovery program for Infomaniac addiction?

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