<h3><strong>Too Much Information can work against you. </strong></h3>
I admit I have a love/ hate relationship with the Internet.

When I was a kid and had a research report to do, we would plan a trip to the library and spend an afternoon doing research. Often times, one trip was not enough and we would have to come back 2 or 3 more times that week to get the project done. Learning how to navigate the library through the “reference desk” and the sea of information was an important skill every child needed to develop for “the real world”.

Little did we know, that method of research would be completely outmoded and replaced with the Internet?   “Just Google it” my 10 year old daughter reminds me now, when I have a question or need to find information.  It still boggles my mind that what took me 6 hours to find as a child for a research project, takes just 45 minutes for her.

I love the Internet for that reason; I also hate it for that reason. TOO much information stresses me out. I get tripped up thinking I have to read all the new information in my inbox everyday so I can be smarter, faster, and more in tune to what the newest, latest, most amazing thing is.

I admit I do know lots of things that are the newest and latest and I am certain no one else knows these cool tidbits of information, but really, what do I actually do with that information? If I’m lucky I can retrieve it in a conversation, but that rarely happens, most of the daily information I read about, or listen to, or watch on the web is locked up and filed away in my brain.

This is the reason why I have always loved book clubs; you read new information and the only way it stays with you is to talk about it, digest it and make it correspond with your own life.  Like any learning environment a book club brings the information we read to life.

Have you ever learned something new and then straight away had to teach it to someone else? That process helps us digest the information and understand it.  I am convinced it’s a lot more effective to read new information and then have a conversation about it.

I am turning over a new leaf, I am reevaluating my mindset of the need to know <em>everything</em> that’s in front of me and creating a new mantra: “Little Bites” only bite off what I can chew and take the time to digest.  Which translates to, consume only the information I can bring to life immediately whether in a conversation, a Blog, a workshop, or with a client, all the rest of that information will just have to be consumed by someone else.