Reading is probably the main cause of information overload but there are other causes that you can deal with. One obvious cause is the radio and TV. If you have these on a lot, you are wasting time and also receiving much information that is useless or irrelevant.

The answer is to turn them off. There will be some programmes that you particularly want or need to watch or listen to but you can find out what these are beforehand and only turn your TV or radio on when the time is right.

If a programme is particularly important to you, perhaps an Open University programme, use a video or tape recorder to record the programme for viewing or listening to at a convenient time. This is particularly useful for programmes at unsociable times of the night.

Do not, however, do what some people do and record lots of programmes and never listen to or watch them. If you record only the really relevant ones you can timetable a viewing half hour or hour into your day or week. Otherwise, you will simply get a backlog of recordings that you will never have time to watch.

Eddie, an engineer, used to video his favourite TV programmes during the week and look forward to viewing them on Friday evenings. But he accumulated so many recordings that even several nights’ viewing failed to reduce the heap significantly. Now he limits himself to one long-playing tape and videos no more than one or two programmes a week. If he doesn’t get around to viewing them on Friday evening, he records over them. That way he does not get depressed by a pile of unseen tapes.

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