Handle information overload
Instructions
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Improve Your Reading Skills
Hire a tutor if necessary. If not, then take or get a good home-study speed reading course. -
Make sure you get the information you really want and need
You may have a staff person read and clip for you. -
Set aside material that is not time-sensitive to review at your leisure
Catalogs, interesting-looking junk mail, and popular magazines. Be VERY selective -
Consider condensation
You can subscribe to summary services. -
Use Your DVR, TiVo, on-demand services, etc.
No one is really bound anymore by the TV schedule. -
Use Your “drive time” or travel time as learning time.
Most sales, marketing, and business experts offer their training on CD. New business books are also released as audiobooks. -
Resist the Siren Song of Distraction
Don’t let “noninformation” consume a lot of your time.