Decision: Should You Filter Information?

Decision Step One (of Four): Opportunity

In the book Zillion Dollar Thinking is the MODELTM for Intelligent Decision Making. The MODEL has four distinct steps. The first step is Opportunity (the basis).

One opportunity that can be overhauled today: the decision of how to personally digest, deal with, and filter today’s oppressive barrage of information.

We have smart phones, computers of every kind, TVs, radios, papers, magazines, on and on…all are steady screaming sources of information. The information is both positive and negative. The positive, we can generally handle as long as it is based in the truth.

But, negative information today is primarily reported on a catastrophic, alarming, and life-altering basis. That can result in worry, frustration, confusion, and uncertainty…not good.

We can all differ in why we think it has come to this point…the deal is…it has.

Left unchecked, this constant assault on American’s psyche is not sustainable (“information overload”). Very much like our spiraling national debt, and that frog sitting in the slow boiling pot. At some point…

So, at this beginning step, we are witnessing a real-time problem which can be converted into an opportunity. The opportunity is to stop, identify and become aware of the consequences of constant information bombing, and the fact that it will have dire results if left unchecked.

This is Step One. Steps Two, Three and Four will be developed to follow…

ZDT Author’s Note: Please take all the time and effort necessary to conclude that this is, in fact, a problem for you, and that you are in agreement with this premise. As stated before, due diligence is the primary requirement of Step One.