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I’m not exaggerating. It’s the word “survive”. Every day we have to deal with lots of information appear in the newspapers, books you read, or on the internet.

You may think don’t have an habit of reading news every day, then what about news transfer by telephone? Some people have subscribed the mobile phone newspaper, and our telephone can login your facebook or twitter accounts easily, people have to deal with messages on them no matter where they are.

We have too many things to do, and we have too much information to deal with at the same time. Sometimes people put too much time and energy in it and neglect things that are much more important. What you need may be adjusting your ways of dealing with the information intake.

Then, how? I will try my best to explain. Hopefully this article will help, or it will be another article that you’ve spend time and energy to read but useless –namely a waste of time for me to write it.

1.Change your habit pattern, and find out what’s important to you.
Through internet, you can obtain abundant information. You can search for any topic and get plenty of results.

In most times, the problem of information overload has to do with a person’s inability to distinguish between what’s important and what’s not. We have the tendency to want to know everything we can, no matter whether it directly affects us or not.

The best way is to start to decide what kind of information or information in which area should be more important for you, and spotting out the things that we don’t need to know –or things that you don’t have to spend too much time on it. For example, if you are a stock investor, unless you have no any trustworthy good broker work for you, you’d better ask the broker handle it for you, and you only need to take a look at what’s going on in the market on a weekly or monthly basis. You can even ask the broker to sent you monthly updates so you don’t have to search out the information by yourself, do you? Besides, the brokers are much more professional in dealing with such stuffs than us.

2.Make lists of the “needs” and “gets”.
Here are two kinds of lists. First, make a list of things what you have to know. Next, make lists of information you get every day, and sort them into different categories. For example, things that related to your professional or personal life. Then, things are irrelative to your work and life, but will motivates you, or relax you, such as your hobbies. Then, things that you keep informed about but don’t appear in the previous two lists. You have to take a long time, and put more efforts to pick them out, and see whether you can eliminate them so as to allow you more time for other things.

Do you spend too much time in reading news that useless to you except making you more nervous and worried? Are you subscribed to 100 or more RSS feeds, and cannot get down to work unless you finished reading them? If the answers are yes, you don’t have to eliminate the subscriptions but also manage your time effectively.

3. Manage your time effectively.
You can set aside time for dealing with information, and set some time that keep you away from the information.

You can set aside some time for checking email, reading RSS feeds, or otherwise seeking out information. You can make the schedule depend on your needs. But remember don’t spend time that you set for other things to do this. Stick to it, and see whether it works.

By the way, you have to think about what you have read so that you know whether it is useful in your daily life. So if you set aside five minutes each hour to read RSS feeds or email, then spend five minutes of every hour doing so, but no more. If you set aside an hour each morning, set a timer so you don’t go over that hour.

4. Establish system for your information.
Though you have make lists for the information, but if you set up some system for the information which can classifying the information comes to you will help you deal with them much effectively.

For example, in your email this might mean setting up filters to direct certain emails (like newsletters) into their own folders automatically. You might also have folders set up for things that you want to spend more time looking at later, or that you might want to refer back to.

Use different folders and tags to organize your RSS feeds. It will allow you to easily check the most important thing in the limited time.

You don’t have to blame yourself when you cannot keep your new habits. Just get back on track again the next day. Keep doing, and some day you will find it an easy thing to you.