To handle information overload, just use small packages!

Dear Fellow Earthlings,

    For many people on Earth, the end of the calendar year is a time for closure, assessment, and rebirth. However, as a great many of you rush about in an effort to close out the old year and to evaluate your performances of the past 365 (or, sometimes, 366) days, stress often becomes ugly. Rebirth often comes to be seen not just as a chance for renewal but, rather -- in a mood that often borders on desperation -- a time for resolution! 

      Such resolution then leads to more stress -- and carries over into the new year. The cycle continues...

      We must stop being overwhelmed.

       FIRST: Take charge of stress -- don't let it take charge of YOU! Do not lose the moment. The moment is the present.... What happened yesterday or what will happen tomorrow is not so important as what is happening right now!

       SECOND: Manage incoming information. As you know, there is so much of it -- and each bit, if not dealt with properly, adds to a person's stress. Ignore advertising that literally tells you to "Act now, as supplies are limited!" Make light of constant replays of short messages. They are meant to overwhelm you, to weaken your resolve, to force you to do what the drafters of the replayed blurbs want you to do!! Determine which information is detrimental to your mental condition. Purge it immediately. Stick only with what YOU conjure up. Do not be swayed by clever marketing!!! 

       THIRD:  Now that you are screening out unnecessary information, you will find it easy to manage the reasonable amount of information that YOU have agreed to work with. In addition, of course, you have your familial, spiritual, financial, and biological needs to attend to...   

   Clear the clutter of unnecessary information from your minds. Put each item that is not filtered out into a small recollection package. Then place the package somewhere inside your head, inside a secure little "mental vault". On some future occasion, retrieve the package from that vault and use its contents as the situation at hand requires.

   This is how I manage my hundreds of clients -- as well as the many hundreds of "things-to- do" that occupy my body, heart, and soul.  I merely retrieve the appropriate package and then open it! This approach is particularly helpful as I administer Jingles training. This technique works through the combined synergies of my mental vault storage and each client's individual study/practice strategies. In the final analysis, the information essential first and foremost to the client has to be stored in SMALL BOXES. If the client is unable to retrieve the essence of kerm homework, then it would be pointless for me to be the primary person of responsibility for that!  "To handle information overload, just use small packages!" 

   I take this opportunity to wish all Earthlings a Wonderful 2025 -- one of peace, love, health, wealth, and happiness.

Steve Walker 

Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

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