online overload!!!

It's been a freaking crazy week; well I have no-one to blame but myself. To recap what I have done, here is the list:

• took up a new student who needs some private English tutoring
• driving myself mad -week 5 into the e-course on social media marketing with so much to learn and so much to do for assignment
• wrote my weekly e-newsletter SLLM which didn't turn up in inboxes in pretty html mode...
• asked for help at Mailchimp to solve the problem
• going through email subscriptions which are worthy of my time
• practise connecting using Twitter, FB, Linked In and Pinterest
• making contact with people who might be interested in working in collaboration
• sent out job application 
• approached some NGO for volunteering work
• read 3 crime novels a week
• wrote this blog post and a snippet on art journaling
• attended a couple of job interviews
• filed a whole stack of paper sitting on the floor

That's quite a lot to accomplish in a week! I can't help but contemplate about my lifestyle only to find that I were an info junkie!!! I want to be challenged, moved, engaged, outraged by what I read. Meanwhile I feel simply overwhelmed knowing that the path of info abstinence will be neither straight or smooth. And guess what? I don't even have a smartphone to play with!!! 24/7 connectivity is definitely not my cup of tea!

I am deep in info overload. My peeps suffer big time. Social media platforms are extremely usefuland almost indispensible these days so I am using Hootsuite to consolidate my accounts. I am minimising my subscription both on and offline, trying to skim blogs instead of reading the whole post. It is indeed draining to be in the sea of connection.I need to start weeding out after I complete the e-course for the sake of my sanity. I need to find the good sources and the right quantities. I need to reduce my consumption and right-size what I am taking in. 

I want to be freed from being constantly connected; even if that means being anti-social. I need to show some self-restraint with a timer. I need to focus more on producing writing instead of making others' my priority.  Another addiction to fight off...and a tough one too.