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Think of Information Overload like it is a endless jigsaw puzzle,

How do you solve it?

1. Open the box, and what do you see? Piece after piece after piece, Some are picture side up, some blank side up. So many pieces what do you do?
2. What next? Turn them all picture side up, Now at least the blanks have gone. How do they fit together?
3. You start to sort through them, you group pieces by colour and information by topic. What next?
4. You need a plan. For the jigsaw this will be the picture on the lid. For information it may be a set of instructions, a flow chart. or merely a collection of thoughts and ideas.
5. Still too much information, so you start to focus. You collect all the likely pieces of jigsaw or information, you consult your plan, you experiment with the pieces and see how they fit together. You put the pieces that don't yet fit to one side for further consideration later.
6. Gradually over time you have correctly assembled a section of the jigsaw or information and now have a topic.
7. You repeat the process and build up further topics, at first in isolation, and later you are able to join the topics together.
8. Your understanding will increase as you link the topics together and can envisage the'big picture'
9. With the jigsaw you know when you are nearing completion, the number of pieces was finite, those pieces you set aside for further consideration are now fitting in, similarly with information you are putting the pieces together so that you understand the process.
10. With the jigsaw you end up with no pieces left, hopefully the picture is complete with no pieces missing. With information you have put the pieces together and now have an end to end process. You have a logical start and a logical end. How you get from beginning to end may vary, everything may flow in a strict linear fashion step A leads to step B, then step C until you reach the end. On the other hand part way through the process there may be alternative routes but in the end you reach the destination.
11. With information you will always get more information, more thoughts, more ideas. What you do with them is up to you, You either try to stick with what you know and what works for you; or you evolve and constantly evaluate new information and how this can affect the end to end process
12. With the Internet and in particular with Internet Marketing things change so often you have to evolve your processes; 'Google' changes the rules, a new version of the software is released, new software is produced that automates a previously manual process, the way you find and interact with your customers changes, your constraints change (when you start you make have been constrained by cash, or lack of expertise) as you develop your constraint is more likely to become time.
13. If you choose to stick with the 'status quo' what will happen? Your results will suffer; your processes will cease to work; your income will decline. By choosing to accept new information and evolving your processes you will continue to prosper.