Having endless amounts of information at your fingertips may seem like a dream come true. You can have access to information any time of day or night. You can contact or at least leave an e-mail for anyone around the clock. You can also sign up to receive e-mails to stay updated on practically anything. You can perform online transactions with companies from almost anywhere, and you can monitor accounts, markets, and everything else from your computer terminal. So what is the problem?
All of this information comes at a price. You have to learn to separate the worthwhile information from the information that is not really necessary. You cannot read every e-mail you receive, peruse every web site that pertains to your topic of interest for the day, or monitor every market. You will not only drive yourself crazy, but you will be out of time before you know it.
You could spend your entire day doing these things and never accomplish anything. This can be stressful. You may want to keep on every detail of your business, every change in your stock market status, and be apprised of the latest updates available on many web sites, but you cannot do everything. You may feel the stress of attempting to do it all but coming short, or you may feel a sense of worry as you try to separate the wheat from the chaff. You may be concerned that in your efforts to bypass the nonessential information that something truly important might slip through.
How do you deal with the relentless stream of emails coming your way? How do you answer every one while still having time to attend to your other duties? How do you know which emails you need to pay attention to and which you can let fall by the wayside? Knowing what to do with the flow of emails can make anyone feel the stress. Trying to figure out how to answer emails in a timely manner without spending your day checking your inbox is a real issue. You are either stressed because you are devoting all your time to checking for and answering emails or you are stressed because you think you may not receive an important one in time. It can feel like a no win situation.
It is a ridiculous amount of information to take in and a daunting task to know what to do with the information once it makes its way to you. Even if you are committed and the bravest of the brave and faithfully catch up on every random e-mail that comes your way, there will be a whole new mailbox full of them when you return to work the next day and even more after the weekend. It is an uphill battle, and it saps your productivity and your focus. Knowing what to read and what not to read can be maddening. You want to catch everything you need to, but you do not want to spend half your day reading e-mails that you realize have nothing to do with you and your job. It amounts to a mountain of information, and finding the useful needles in that haystack can be quite stressful.
Constantly checking your mailbox to make sure that you are up on the latest changes is demanding. The pressure to take advantage of this instant communication can be overwhelming. You want to check your email often enough that you can instantly respond to any emails you receive. It can turn from a convenience to a cloud hovering over you at all times because you never know when you will have more emails to respond to immediately.
These are some of the stresses common to computer-based workers. They may sound like a lot, but once you know how they are caused then you can deal with them. You can replace bad habits with goods ones. You just need to know how.
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Great points raised. And it's only getting worse every day. I remember when I was a kid, I had access to a few books and the occasional TV show. We didn't watch much TV, so when we got the chance it was like an event :) I saw a kid watching TV the other day, and he wasn't even focused on the TV. He was also playing with a toy and his dad's iPad. No attention span. Which is what is happening to everyone now. As there's more and more to consume, our attention span goes down to try handling everything being thrown at it. We are now competing with goldfish for who's got more attention span :)
I try to turn off notifications on my phone when I'm trying to read or write these days.. otherwise I'd never finish what I started.
Yes. I also think self-discipline should come into play when it comes to today's technology.