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Is free time scarce to nonexistent in your life? When is the last time you took an entire weekend off to relax? Are you constantly tacking extra jobs onto an already busy schedule? Is your life more complex than it was a few years ago? Do juggling work activities, volunteer community efforts and family obligations clamor for your attention unendingly?
Faced with more stimuli, greater responsibilities and more choices--whether that is which cereal to eat or which college to attend -- the ability to keep it all in mind begins to fail. You may find yourself afflicted with CRS-- "Can't Remember Stuff." This strikes at inopportune times, like when you leave your desk with a question for a colleague and forget it between the five steps that separate your cubicles.
The pressures of handling the many demands on business, home and family life are real and can be overwhelming. Even your children have more to do and remember with jammed calendars reminiscent of a campaign schedule two weeks before the election. Here is what can happen. Your doctor prescribed an antibiotic for an ear infection. You use the medicine for a couple days, and then forget about the prescription until you discover it months later in the back of your medicine cabinet. You worry that your home computer will crash, knowing that it has been almost a month since you have done any backups. You need to keep track of your car mileage for business expense purposes but somehow end up trying to resurrect the totals from memory. These are some of the bits and pieces or odds and ends of life that somehow slip through the cracks. To prevent this from happening, design your own safety nets.
Odette Pollar is a nationally known speaker, author, and consultant. President of the management consulting firm, Smart Ways to Work based in Oakland, CA, her most recent book is Surviving Information Overload. Email to share your comments, questions and suggestions: odette@SmartWaysToWork.com. Visit us at: www.smartwaystowork.com call: 1-800-599-8463.
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