Overload VS Just-In-Time(JIT) Information

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Discover the art of balancing information overload and just-in-time (JIT) insights with CJ Ransom on CJSJ Marketing. CJ shares personal hurdles with dyslexia, emphasizing the shift from knowledge accumulation to wisdom for quality content.

In our data-driven society, where daily creation exceeds 2.5 quadrillion bytes, the summary highlights the impact of information overload on well-being and productivity. Addressing these challenges, five key JIT strategies are outlined: reducing overload, real-time relevance, digital purging, filtering and prioritizing, and continuous learning with boundaries.

The aim is a balanced approach between overwhelming information and necessary consumption. JIT is presented as indispensable for personal and business growth, offering a remedy for confusion caused by overload. CJ’s progress underscores JIT’s effectiveness, encouraging readers to embrace it for success.

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Hi, I’m CJ Ransom. I’d like to welcome you to the CJSJ marketing blog. SJ and I would like to welcome you here today and today’s Edition. We are going to be looking at the contrast between information overload and just in time information. But before we jump into the details, I have a confession. This is an area that I have struggled with for my whole life, and it definitely is a work in progress press. Part of this is due to dyslexia and a lifelong struggle with reading comprehension and retaining information and having these learning issues. Well, I have to confess it makes me feel like I never have enough information. So I search for more information to try and provide an overall understanding before I move forward. And the problem with trying to find more and more information? Problem is this ends up being a never-ending cycle and progress ends up being slim to none. And I hate to say it, a lot of times it’s none, and that none gets very frustrating and you still keep digging for more and more information and you end up frozen, which we’ll be talking about a little bit later in this blog.

But I have to confess, it definitely is an area that I struggle in. However, I am very excited to report that I am making progress in balancing overload and JIT information, which means just in time information. It’s not easy and it takes a lot of self-discipline, but it has allowed me to make better progress toward my goals and dreams than I have in the last several years since I switched with my mentor and everything that has encouraged me to do so. I’m moving in the right direction. It’s still a work in progress and I’m still having to struggle with it. And I’ll talk some more about that in the blog here. But I have to confess upfront, this is an area that I’m still struggling and still working through. So I’m preaching to the choir, so to speak, preaching to myself about this, at the same time providing the information for you and as a good reminder for myself.

As we jump into that, we have to realize a few things. In today’s world. We’re living in a society that’s part of what we call the information age. Everywhere we go, we are inundated with exuberant amounts of information. Our senses are being overloaded and pulled in all directions, from oceans of information that is being directed. All of our senses, from our ears, to our eyes, to our feel, to our touch, our smell. You name it, you name it. We’re being inundated with information through that sense. With the invention of the Internet, the amount of data that is getting produced every day is incomprehensible, Ford said in 2018, and this was back in 2018, say that there are 2.5 quadrillion bytes of data created every day, and it’s accelerating at an alarming pace. Can you imagine what it is today? That was in 2018. And the other statistic is there are over 3.5 billion searches on the Internet per day and growing. This breaks down to around 40,000 searches per second for information of any kind you can dream of. If you want information on a topic, the Internet has more information on that topic than you can digest in a lifetime, and more is being added daily.

With a vast amount of information, it is necessary to transition from gaining and understanding all the information on one topic. We don’t know everything, and everything there is about a specific topic, it is necessary to transition from that to what is called just in time information, or JIT. JIT is referred to the delivery of relevant information at the exact time it’s needed, not before and not after, but when it’s needed. And in this blog, we will explore the pitfalls of information overload and how JIT can help us navigate the digital gluttony with all this information. As you see, as we talked about in the introduction, we’re being inundated, and that was all information back in 2018. And that’s just to show you how much information there is. How much information are you constantly piling just in yourself, personally, in a daily basis? How much has it accelerated since then? That is all to show you that there is a huge digital gluttony out there. There is so much information and there’s so much being provided. The question becomes, how do we navigate that and how do we get through that?

Well, the first thing we need to look at is the pitfalls of overload information. And when we look at the pitfalls of overload information, we need to first look at bringing something into context. In the era of information abundance, like we were talking before, there is a wealth of knowledge is just a click away. One might assume that more information is always better. I know I always have. I’m guilty of that, of thinking more information is better in going out and getting more and more, and thinking, well, the more information I have on this subject, the more I know about it, the more I can do with it. But that is a trap. I can tell you that is a trap to fall into. Fall in that you don’t want to.

And most of us are in that trap. And we’re trying to get out of it. We don’t know how. And the pitfalls from that. Information is too much. Information often refers to information over. We can have detrimental effects on our cognitive well-being, decision-making progress, and overall productivity. All of it impedes our ability to get done what we’re trying to accomplish.

Overload information. And the overload information, one of the biggest things it does is it causes us to be paralyzed. How many of you have been paralyzed because of too much information? I will say I have. I will be the first to jump up and say, me. Not only me with one hand, me with tenfold. The paralyzation is unexplainable. It affects your ability to make decisions because it paralyzes you.

All this information coming in and coming at you and being thrown at you through all your senses, through the Internet, through everything. And as you look for it, there’s countless search engine results that come back and you’re looking and trying to read. And before you know, you have so much information that we have what is called analysis paralysis.

Analysis paralysis is because you’re trying to analyze so much information and have so much information coming at you that it paralyzes you. And it paralyzes you because there’s so much information that it makes you incapable of making good decisions. You may make a decision, but it doesn’t allow you to make good, solid, foundational decisions because you’re paralyzed and confused.

And the next piece of that is it reduces information retention. From my point of view, with all my learning disabilities and all my other things, I can tell you this makes my retention ten times, if not more difficult, because the information is coming at you so fast and so much, and your brain goes into such overload. One of the things that I have is I have an issue with my brain where it doesn’t shut off like it should. That’s part of my learning disability stuff.

And what happens is it keeps going. It keeps going, keeps going so much all the time that eventually it gets so fatigued, it just shuts off. It shuts off not because it’s not getting enough information, not because it’s not working. It’s because it’s overworking. Because of all the inundated information and everything that’s coming. It gets so tired, and the results are the same as if it doesn’t work at all, because it completely shuts off.

And when it shuts off, it can’t do anything. All it can do is cause me to lay down, close my eyes, and rest as much as possible until it comes down enough to where I can actually start processing again. And that’s what it does. Reduces the information ability to retain it because of overactivity and because of overactivity and because it reduces your attention, the next thing that it does is it impedes action.

When you’re in information overload, it’s almost impossible to take action. And if you do try and take some kind of action, it’s generally action that is not really well thought through. It’s just that I’m going to go do this, and you get doing it and you realize, well, no, I shouldn’t do this. And now you’re over here doing this, this, and before you know it, you’re just confused.

I don’t know about you, but it has stopped me from taking action on multiple occasions and it stopped SJ from taking action on multiple occasions because we get paralyzed with information we don’t understand, we can’t process. And then once you can’t make decisions, once you can’t retain the information, once it impedes your action, the next step in the thing is it causes stress.

You become stressed out and confused. Confused because you don’t know what to do anymore, you don’t know where to go, you don’t know how to do it because it’s overloading you and it just causes you to be stressed and it causes you to shut down. And when it does that, most of the time for most people, including myself, which I’m a very optimistic person, but it causes you to shut down. And most times quit.

Sometimes it caused me to quit for six months, a year, and before I get back up and I start looking for something and start again, and I’ve fallen for that more than once. And the decisions and the different things, if you look at our personal profile, you’ll see some of the things that I did. And I quit because I couldn’t get the information, couldn’t understand it, couldn’t process it, and it’s because of the abundance of information.

And the next thing we need to know is that this world is full of knowledge. I mean, knowledge is everywhere, but wisdom is not. So as we look at this, making this transition from information overload to JIT or just in time information, we want to stop looking for knowledge and we want to start deep diving and looking for wisdom. I heard that quote from a mentor not too long ago, I don’t remember where, but one of the things he said is we got a ton of knowledge in this world and we get more every day, but it seems like we get less and less wisdom.

One of the things I encourage you to do is when it comes to quality versus quantity, we have a quantity which is the knowledge, the quality, which is the wisdom. We need to start searching for the quality, not the quantity. And the quality will help us with the JIT. Just in time information. So the just in time information, as we said before, is information that you get at the time you need it, not before, not after, but right when.

And this is something I’ve had to learn with my mentor as we look at this and we’ve seen all the effects of the decision making, the reduction in retention, the impeding action, it causes stress, it causes confusion, it causes an issue with over knowledge and not enough wisdom, wisdom and inundates us and causes all these things to happen because of the information overload. But it is imperative, and I’ve learned this and I’m still learning it from my mentors, but it’s imperative we make the transition to just in time information.

So the question that you have is how do I do that? And that’s a very, very good question. And it’s one you need to be asking yourself if you wish to succeed. And I know everybody on here wants to succeed, wants to reach their goals, wants to reach their why and wants to be able to harness their dreams. But to do that, we need to be able to transition to just in time information. And to do that we’re going to look at five different things to help us with just in time information. The first thing we need to do is reduce our information overload. We need to be able to do that. And we reduce it by first and foremost only focusing on information we need now. And I know I said that before and I can’t say it enough. You have to focus on information you need now, not later, not before. A good example of this is I’ve got two personal growth things that I’m working on. I’m working on one that deals with Tony Robbins, that deals with my mind. I’m working on another one to help me do better in my goal setting, my goal setting, which is twelve-week year, I have these two things I’m focusing and working on for my personal growth. And then I’m also working with my mentor on my business, on my marketing affiliate, and regular online marketing growth. And in each of those, I’ve told my wife, I’ve told SJ, I said I’m not looking at nothing else. I’m mastering my Tony Robbins stuff that deals with my mind, and I’m mastering the stuff dealing with the twelve-week year, and I’m not doing anything else in my personal growth. That’s all I’m focusing on. I’m not looking for any more information. I’m not looking for anything else pertaining to it. Those are two things I’m focusing on, and I’m focusing on them to mentor me in those areas and not get outside of it.

Then on my business side over here, I am concentrating and focusing on the stuff that my mentor, Dean Holland, has shown me. He’s taking me one step at a time, and I’m focusing on each step as we go and only on that step as we go. And that is not easy because I want to run as fast as I can, as a racehorse in that direction and go as quick as I can and leave everybody else in the dust and everything. And I have to fight my urge to do that, to stay in the just-in-time moment, just do what I have to do for this week, just what I have to do for this day sometimes. Just what I have to do for this very minute. Focusing on that.

And that’s how we start to overcome, reduce information overload. We have to do it. And we don’t focus on step two when we’re on step one. We don’t focus on step three when we’re on step one. We must focus on what we need now. Which brings me to the next topic, real-time relevance. You don’t want any information. You only want information that’s relevant to what you’re doing. We can get on a wild goose chase or squirrel chase because we can be focusing on something that’s relevant. Next thing you know, we see something else. We go over here and reading this, only focus on what’s relevant. Get rid of the squirrel syndrome, get rid of the rabbit jumping all over syndrome, whatever you want to call that, call that stuff that makes you chase rabbits, chase things, other things that are not relevant. Only focus on what is relevant. What you need now, not what you need later, not what you needed before, but what you need right now.

That is the only way you’re going to be able to reduce your overload is to focus on one thing at a time that you need to do and need to do now, and only have the information you need for that and not running and chasing things. The next piece you have to do is you have to be able to practice digital purging. Digital purging is so important. We need to be able to go out and purge our social media. We need to purge our hard drives. We need to purge things in our offices or where we’re at, get rid of all the information that you don’t need so you can focus on just the relevant information. Purging. We get thousands and thousands of data. We put stuff in there. We buy books, we do everything, and we think, well, we might need some for the future, so we get it. No, we don’t buy stuff for the future. We buy stuff. What we need and focus on for what we need now and nothing else. We need real-time relevance. And we need to purge our data so that we can stay and only have just-in-time information and we’re not distracted.

And the next thing we need to take the information that we have, we must filter and must prioritize that information. And then when we prioritize it, filter it down to what we need, prioritize if there’s multiple things that are in it, and only do the thing that’s at the top priority. That top priority is what we need to focus on and nothing more. And then focusing on that priority. We need to be able to only do what that priority allows us to do. Don’t focus on the next thing or the beginning thing or the thing after. We need to focus on what is that priority and what’s relevant.

The next thing we need to do is we need to work on continuously learning and setting boundaries. The boundaries we’re setting for ourselves consist of the ability to be able to force ourselves to focus and to focus on that information we’ve been talking about, not stuff outside of what we’re doing. We need to stay within the boundaries that we’ve set for the information overload, for purging the information, set the boundaries with the real-time relevant information, and be able to put those things in. And the other thing we need to worry about, not worry, but need to look at, is continuously learning.

And I don’t mean continuously learning for the sake of continuous learning. And I don’t mean continuously learning so you can just get a bunch of information. I mean continuous learning here is defined a little bit differently. You’re continuously learning, as in, right this moment, I’m learning what I need to do for the priority that I have at this real moment in time. And we learn that information, and then when we’re done with that and we’ve completed the actions that go with it, not just reading and doing it, but completing all the action and mastering that piece of it, then we can go to the next. We can take one more step this way or whichever way is required. And we take that step and we continue to learn what we need for the next step. We take the next step. We learn it. We put it into action, and then we learn and take the next step. We need to continuously learn in that manner, not just learn for the sake of continuously learning. We’re learning each step and mastering it and taking action and then moving to the next.

So these are the important things about JIT. If you implement these five things, reduce information overload, take care of real-time relevant for you. Now. Practice digital purging so that you don’t get distracted. Filter your information so that you get information. That’s good wisdom. Not just knowledge, but filter information down that gives you wisdom and prioritize that information and consume it in the right priority, complete it in the right priority, study it in the right priority, and then continuously learning and setting your boundaries.

I don’t know about you, but striking a proper balance between JIT isn’t necessarily easy. But JIT helps us strike that balance between the ocean of information overload and the need to consume the information. We have to have a balance. We have to be able to take the right amount of information in at the time that we need it, and we process that information, that information only so that we don’t end up in the information overload. The well of information that exists is a blessing and a curse. But with practicing JIT information, we can not only conquer information overload, we can accelerate our personal and business growth by eliminating the confusion and various forms of paralysis caused from information overload.

I don’t know about you, but for myself, I get caught up in information overload. I’m not exempt to it. I am doing better and I am progressing, and I am learning and I am disciplining myself. And I have to say, like I said when we began practicing, the things of JIT has helped me more in the last six months to get things done and get action and be moving forward. That I’m confident and I know I’m going to reach my goals this year. But to reach my goals this year, I have to discipline myself with JIT information, not overload information. So you know that progress has meant a lot to me, and I want to see you make progress. I want to see you get your goals and dreams. But with all the information out here, this is one discipline that you just have to be able to do and to conquer to the best of your ability.

My goal is to conquer JIT information. I may never fully conquer it, but I am making strides and I know you can too. And I encourage you to give it a try and leave a comment on how we can help you, help you. We want to hear you about it and also want to know how you’re doing with it. If you’re making that transition, you’re working on that transition, and you’re not trying to look ahead, trying to figure everything out. You don’t have to know everything, but only what you’re doing at that particular moment in time. And I know, like I said, I know it’s not easy, but it’s imperative that you do if you want to succeed just in time. Information is the answer to overload information.

I do wish you the best and I hope that you find this information helpful. Hopefully I’ll help you move on. We’re laying the groundwork and stuff. All these blogs that we’ve been doing up to this point, we’re laying a groundwork. We got a couple more go and then we’re going to start deep diving into technical information on how to set stuff up so you can get your marketing business moving. But I want to make sure we’re all in the right mental mind frame and the right place and everything else before we move and start setting things down. Because if we don’t, then it’s going to be more difficult for you to keep up, follow and do the things you need to do.

But I’d like to thank you and welcome you. This is CJ and SJ, and I’m out till the next episode. Have an awesome day. Bye.