Did you know that we've gone from being exposed to about 500 ads a day back in the 1970's to as many as 5,000 a day today.  According to President of the Marketing Firm Yankelovich, Jay Walker-Smith "it's a non-stop blitz of advertising messages."

That's ads alone.  The average daily media intake is currently being calculated according to the NYT is 34 Gigabites per day!  

So how do we filter this information.  Organization of course!  This allows you to spend intentional attention to what's in front of you and create a fabulous time management habit in the process.
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• Set a dedicated time for reading.  Designate a specific amount of time to simply read.  Whether it's hard copy or online, create the space on your calendar.  You can always move the time if something happens, but at least it's on there.
• ​Put all of your hard copy reading in one place.  When you ready to take time to read it you won't have to search for it.  Remember to only keep current issues of any magazines.  Put them by the door to pass along or recycle them.  
• Use Evernote, Dropbox or other online ap to save reading for later.  Again, create a special folder for reading or resources (recipes, ideas etc)
• Ditto for centralizing electronic reading.  Fellow Professional Organizer Ellen Delap offers a great tip of creating "a separate email address for shopping and reading. Your shopping email address is where all coupons and offers arrive. Your reading email address is where blogs, journals, and newsletters arrive. By segregating your incoming mail, you prioritize what’s most important to address daily."  
• Create filters in your email so only the most important emails come to your inbox.  Search your email's help function for their how to tutorial
• Create a separate email address for "junk" email or store offers.  Remember to clear out and opt out if you see you are getting overloaded with offers.
• Use Unroll.Me to unsubscribe from emails you no longer wish to see.  
• Clean out your emails regularly and be ruthless  This includes all saved items.  Remember the rules to remember: Is it current, relevant, available somewhere else, your responsibility?
• Set aside time to unplug.  I know this is a hard one, but turn your electronic devices off.  I mean actually turn them all the way off.   

There's a lot of information coming at us like a tidal wave.  And in order to process it we need a process to filter that water!  By breaking it down into smaller droplets we are able to give our focused attention to what's in front of us - Peace by Piece

To your most organized self!