Christopher Weir - That Monday morning feeling
Today is Monday, the start of mine and most people’s week. Much like most other people I have my morning routine, and if this is disrupted it will spill over into the rest of the day and I will be a pain to be around, it is not a pleasure to start my day with a hot shot of caffeine, but a necessity.
This routine isn’t filled with excitement but I need this routine to set me up for the rest of the day. It starts with boiling the kettle for my morning wake up coffee and is followed by a bowl of cereal whilst I load up my laptop to check my emails before moving on to work on my tasks for the day. Recently however, I have found that this routine is taking up more and more of my day. Previously I would work my way through my emails whilst eating my breakfast and be free to start working properly half an hour after waking up (the joys of working from home) however, more and more these days my emails are taking up a disproportionate amount of my time.
This morning I went through my usual routine up until the point where I took that first joyous sip my wake up juice to find that I had 166 new emails that had collected over the weekend. I somehow doubt that my laptop appreciated its nice warm coffee scented shower this morning but that is what it had. This was not just Information Overload, this was more a case of Information Overwhelmed! On top of this I have Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts and LinkedIn to monitor and it was at this point I began to realise what people are referring to when they mention Information Overload.
It is far too easy to send communication through the digital medium, with companies utilising (and sometimes abusing this) to reach as many people as possible. Email and social media are here to stay so what we need to do is better manage our communication, instead of fighting against this tide of information we must all learn to manage it better so as to not become overwhelmed. Thankfully, this is an area which developments are occurring and hopefully information overload will instead become a thing of the past.
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