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Most of us are busy. Very busy. And these days busyness is more common than, well, the common cold. Compounding the feeling that our hair is constantly on fire is the fact that many of us are plugged in \u2013 all the time. Most of us have armed ourselves with technological gadgetry that allows us to send, receive, and search for data 24\/7.\u00a0 It can be overwhelming. We aren\u2019t necessarily wired, for example, to manage overflowing inboxes with expert efficiency, and we can\u2019t squeeze more hours into our day. So learning how to manage our busyness (and our stress levels) has become as vital as making sure we eat and breathe.<\/p>\n

David Allen<\/a>, guru of \u201cstress free productivity,\u201d has some thoughts on both a solution for the chaos and an explanation<\/a> for why more of us are dealing with busyness \u2013 and the skills to tackle it. \u201cYou need the executive skill and the ability to make rapid decisions about how you allocate limited resources. There\u2019s nothing new under the sun about that. What\u2019s new is how many more <\/em>people have to be making those kinds of executive decisions now. You\u2019ve moved the executive requirement down through all the ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at email. Some of us get a tidal wave of it every day, and managing it (well) can be challenging. But, Allan points out that information overload is not the real issue: \u201cIf it were, you\u2019d walk into the library and die. As soon as you connected to the Web, you\u2019d just explode.\u201d Allan believes that each new email we get – whether it\u2019s work-related or from our favorite retail store alerting us to another sale \u2013 is an enticement to potential action. We are compelled to check our email every time we hear that ping because we don\u2019t want a mystery \u2013 we want to know if that newly arrived bit of data is a call to action. And we want to know right away. We want to know now<\/em>.\u00a0 And when this happens over and over again, we begin to get overwhelmed. \u201cSo then we walk around with what I call the GSA of life\u2014the Gnawing Sense of Anxiety that something out there might be more important than what you\u2019re currently doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

So how do we rid ourselves of GSA? We have to externalize it, says Allan, in whatever way allows us to best record the things we find most meaningful as we go through the day. In doing so \u201cyou clarify what those things mean to you.\u201d And there\u2019s no arguing that greater clarity is a good thing, for that\u2019s exactly what we need to help see through the daily miasma of data, to-do lists, and impending deadlines. But here\u2019s an ironic twist: the very technology that\u2019s made it easier for us to cocoon ourselves with data (do you ever turn off your phone anywhere else other than an airplane?) hasn\u2019t yet evolved to help us deal with it better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith better technology, I\u2019d like a set of maps\u2014maps of my maps. Then I could say, \u2018Okay, which map do I want to work on right now? Do I want to work on my family map, because I\u2019ve got family members coming over for dinner?\u2019 Then you can drill down into \u2018Oh, my niece is coming. She likes this food, her favorite color is pink, her dog is named\u00a0\u2026\u2019 Then you can back off and say, \u2018That\u2019s enough of that map. What\u2019s the next map I want to see?\u2019 Or: \u2018I\u2019d just like to read some poetry right now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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