For millions
of people, technology is making their lives harder, not easier. They're
bombarded with so much information they can barely read it, let alone
process it. They're tied to the office, through e-mail, cell phones,
pagers, voice mail and fax machines, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Their sense of balance is under assault from the relentless onslaught
of data and the feeling that they must be constantly "connected."
For everyone who
yearns to simplify life, slow down and get centered, all without
committing
career suicide, Dot Calm offers an unprecedented chance to
leverage the success strategies of those who recognize these problems
and are taking action. Based on the authors' in-depth interviews and
survey results, Dot Calm outlines a wide variety of proven
tactics that real people in all walks of life are using to cope with
the ubiquitous problems of information and access overload.
Dinnocenzo and
Swegan show that you don't have to sacrifice productivity or efficiency
to have a sane, balanced life. On the contrary, technology can so
overload people with data that they have a hard time focusing on those
activities that truly matter. Unplugging will actually make you more
effective.
Dot Calm
is fundamentally a book of solutions, not just an analysis of a problem.
Dinnocenzo and Swegan offer a variety of tools, exercises and examples
that will help readers:
- Reconcile
their personal priorities and values with the demands of their work
- Leave the office,
especially the virtual office, behind and create space and time
to recharge their batteries
- Put reasonable
limits on their accessibility
- Organize and
prioritize the endless electronic clutter in their lives
- Maintain human
contact and create community in a world of faceless electronic communication
- Design a personal
plan for navigating the delicate balance between organizational
and individual needs
Doing more and
doing it faster doesn't mean that people are doing the right things
to achieve the right results. And the price we pay, in stress, disrupted
lives and loss of human contact, is one more and more people are unwilling
to pay. Through a process of analysis, self-insight and priority setting,
Dot Calm helps readers identify and stick to their priorities
and strike a reasonable balance between life and work.
