It happens to me quite often, I get so overwhelmed by getting too much information when I want to learn something new.

Thats me!! I always try to learn too many things at the same time and end up doing nothing

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman, Narrated by Josh Kaufman

Mohammad asks: "I consider myself an information junky. I buy books, information products/programs, trying to learn new skills and start new businesses all at the same time. Obviously, nothing happens and I do not learn anything... I get overwhelmed and do not take any action... HELP!!!!!"

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Muhammad says, I consider myself an information junkie. I buy books, information products, programs, trying to learn new skills, start new businesses all at the same time. Obviously, nothing happens and I don't learn anything simply because I get overwhelmed, and I don't take any action. Help. 

Mohammad I'm really glad you
 brought this up because this is the problem. 

This is something holds all of us back to a certain extent. We all have a lot of things that we want to learn, and those thing typically take take. So one of the best things things that you can do and I totally feel you here because I am of the personality and mindset that there are thousands that I want to learn all at the same time, and so it's very easy to kind of have shiny things object syndrome right? 

Oh, I want to learn this and then I want to learn this. I want to learn this. And you bounce around and never really spend time getting good at anything. And so there are a couple things that really help in this regard. The first is focusing on one skill at a time. And this is very difficult until you do something very specific which is helpful. 

It's something David Allan talks about in his really great book Getting Things Done. He calls it a someday maybe list. So instead of just keeping track of all the things that you want to learn in your head, write them down. Put it on a sheet of paper. And when you put something on your someday maybe list, it absolves you of responsibility for doing it right now. 

So if there's something on that list that you want to promote to an active project, fantastic. You can make that decision. But once it goes on the someday, maybe list, you have it captured. You're not going to forget about it. and you can say, "I'm not focused on this right now. I'm going to do that later when it becomes a priority." So I highly recommend, just take out a sheet of paper, write down all the things that you would someday maybe like to do and choose one of them. 

So go through that list and figure out, what is the thing that I'm either going going to get the most enjoyment out of? Or is going to help me in my career? Or whatever is the most important thing for you right now. Promote that one to active status and let the rest of them wait, okay? The second is the idea of pre-committing 20 hours. 

So when you decide to promote something to active status, ask yourself am I willing to set aside at least 20 hours over the course of the next month to practice this thing? If not, it's probably not so important, so you can scratch that off your list and pick up something that is important enough for you to make that commitment and the whole idea of practising twenty hours is very simple. It's short enough that it's not going to suck up your entire life, right, so it's easy to commit to. But it's long enough that you will see some very real, sometimes very dramatic results in that early part of practice. So pre-committing to at least 20 hours of deliberate practice, helps you practice long enough that you can see results. 

So, I would highly recommend take out a sheet of paper and make a someday maybe list and pick one. And figure out where you're going to practice and how you're going to practice and spend an initial 20 hours. And let me know how it goes. I'm really looking forward to hearing what you decide to learn. 

Thanks. 


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