Do you ever sit down at your computer to read an email and the next thing you know you've just spent an hour clicking through various links to get to "important" information? I hate to admit how often that happens to me.
I've decided to give myself a time limit for reading emails and other informative material. All too often, I open an email that has a link in it, and once I click on it, I'm carried off to some other source, a blog or website, which promises to have the information I need to be a better real estate agent, salesperson, friend, co-worker, wife, mother, and etcetera!!!
I think of it like a sponge - I'm absorbing all this information - but a sponge can only absorb so much before it has to be "squeezed out".
So, from now on, I'm going to take in just enough material to stay informed - but move on to other important tasks before I'm pulled into the information vacuum where I become ineffective because I'm overwhelmed with all the "stuff" I'm learning about doing, but never get around to "doing" because I'm still learning. Yikes!!
There are considerable amounts of good information out there, especially for those of us in the real estate business; and it's so easy to get distracted by these helpful resources. So, one of my goals for 2009 is to spend less time learning about some new thing, and more time perfecting what I already know.
Are there things in your life and business that you'd like to get better at, but can never find the time?
I'd love to hear about it...
Here's to a balanced 2009!!
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