We run into the challenge every knowledge worker is facing today. We are all overwhelmed. There are more emails than what we know what to do with. There are more phone calls than we can return. There is more news than we can absorb.
Information moves with such abundance and ease that it is hard to keep our bearings. Often, we shut down and lose what is most important as human beings:
- Decision-Making: Information is presented to us in order to move to an action or a decision. Everything else is noise. When we develop a continuous habit of letting our inbox fill up and not making decisions, we develop a habit of being indecisive. The tragedy is that the items that are a crisis are what get addressed.
There was a telling comment made a few years ago by famed NBA basketball star, Allen Iverson. He revealed his perspective about practice, “We’re talking about practice man, we’re not even talking about the game, when it actually matters, we’re talking about practice.”