I’m on a mission to reduce overload. You know, that information overload/clutter thing. Whether it’s email, my feed reader, twitter, facebook or something else, I’m definitely feeling “swamped” by the information that I “need to keep up with”.

I don’t think it’s any one of these things on it’s own; 130+ subscriptions in my feed reader is fine, until you add in the need (and I use that word lightly) to check a whole host of other things as well. Same with twitter, etc.

Here are some things I’m thinking about:

• Getting rid of a whole lot of subscriptions from my feed reader. I probably need to be ruthless here.
• Stop using twitter to keep up with “news”; use it to follow friends only.
• Find a way to motivate myself to check “action” labels in my email daily, so that things don’t build up.

It’s not that the information is bad. It’s that when I know it’s there waiting for me, I become apathetic towards dealing with it. That reduces effectiveness many areas of my life and ministry.

How have you reduced information clutter/overload in your life?