Part of the great American dream is to have more leisure time and less of the drudgery that often comes from making a living. Funny, but it seems you have to work even harder than before just to process all the information telling you how to achieve that type of lifestyle.

There is so much “chatter” filling our email boxes, coming from online mavericks and maidens, the television, the newspapers, uploaded videos, downloaded content… how do you even begin to separate what’s real?

Another challenge is that once your mind can take all this information in, how do you find the time to process it, not to mention act on what you’ve learned?

It’s possible to work yourself into a frenzy like a mouse on a wheel trying to cover all your bases and get things done. What I find happens to me is that the more I work to get ahead this way, the more I fall behind.

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