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Podcast Episode 67: Living With Chaos

Life rarely comes at us in neat little chunks. And when life is chaotic, it can breed even more chaos as we are forced to be constantly on our toes and ready to pivot. This episode is number 67, Living with Chaos.
hamster wheel

How I Got Off The Hamster Wheel Tonight

Tonight I was completely spun up, running around on a hamster wheel. A busy week that seems to have no end, task lists that keep growing, having to fight a few battles that were necessary but still took a lot out of me, little sleep, and dealing with a bunch of vendor dumpster fires. I thought I was going to implode. So how did I get it to stop in a matter of hours?
take a break

It’s OK To Take A Break

I’m starting to hear comparisons of how people spent their isolation time. You know what? I think you’re doing well if you managed to come out of the last two years more or less intact.
How to Deal With Information Overload

How to Deal With Information Overload

There is so much information coming at us today. We get it from the media, internet, email, social media. We can try to escape, but as long as we have our phones, we have even more information at our fingertips.

Some of this information is very useful - the internet presents a reference like we've never seen before in the history of man. We have at our fingertips all the knowledge we could possibly use to accomplish just about anything.

But at the same time, some of this information is either useless or even harmful. If useless, it takes up our attention and energy. If harmful, it spurs feelings of jealousy, anger and even hatred.

All this information is overwhelming. And without deliberate management, it can cause overload, where we are no longer able to process the information coming at us.

So what can a single person do to manage the information overload coming at them?