So Much To Learn, So Little Time

If you have spent time on the web catching up with the latest news and developments in your market, or better yet following other popular blogs, you are probably familiar with the idea of information overload. A lot of us like to think of ourselves as a sponge, willing to learn anything and everything necessary to make it in our lives. But the truth is, there is such a thing as information overload, and it is very crippling.

Information overload happens when you try to take in more than you can chew and you end up in a worse place. It is “counterintuitive” but you are probably better off being lazy and reading only half a blog a day than reading 30+ blogs. No. I am not suggesting that you should procastinate. I am suggesting that too much good stuff could actually be bad for you. It’s like health food. Have too much of it and you can get sick…

When you start your blogging business, your focus should be to learn and act quickly. If you spend most of your time learning everyday, when are you going to have a chance to act upon what you have learned? I have personally tried so many training service such as the Immediate Edge, and Trafficology. These are all great, but at some point, you are going to realize that you have spent the last 2 years of your life learning stuff that are now outdated and useless. That’s usually what happens in the Internet marketing world. Techniques that work today, don’t necessarily work tomorrow, and if you are wasting your tomorrow on learning a new technique and not implementing what you have learned the day before, then you are never going to get what you are hoping for.

So if you are suffering from information overload, here is my suggestion for you. Choose one or two blogs that you prefer, choose one training service that you prefer and stick with them. Do not move on until you have implemented what you have learned. If what you have picked up on doesn’t pass your tests, then move on to the next approach. And do clean up your BlogLines or Google Reader. If you have feeds in there that you haven’t touched for a while, just get rid of them. What’s the point of confusing yourself and putting extra burden on your shoulders. Stick with the bare minimum and take baby steps. Information overload is a disease that you can’t bounce back from too easily. The sooner you stop it, the better you are off in the long run.