(CNN) -- Put the BlackBerry on mute. Don't check your e-mail every time the pop-up box appears on your computer screen.
And -- crazy concept, we know -- pick up the phone if you need something done quickly.
Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. And technology and efficiency experts are urging people to take stock of how an increasing flood of digital data is slowing down their personal and professional lives.
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Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general. Those that learn to deal with it effectively will have a major advantage in the next few years.
Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions. The result is either that you either delay making decisions, or that you make the wrong decisions.
It is now commonplace to be getting too many e-mails, reports and incoming messages to deal with them effectively.
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