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5. You're not focusing.
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Consider this: if you checking your email 25 times a day versus twice a day, your email is still equally 'checked'. It just took you 23 more that much more time. For maximum efficiency, Tim Ferriss recommends batching tasks. For example, you can set up two regular times for checking your email -- 9 am and 4 pm. Worried you'll miss something urgent and important? Ferriss suggests using an Auto Responder message that tells people when you check your email and providing your phone number for emergencies. (For more tips on making better use of your time, click here).
2. You're getting less done.
Are you are an information-maniac, a news junkie, a social-media butterfly? If so, you might be hurting yourself more than you think. The costs of information addiction are many and profound. Alas, I know this not only from personal experience ("Hello, my name is Liisa and I'm an info-holic.") but also from many of my coaching clients who share this malady. Let's face it: multi-talented [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], creative people are, by definition, interested in many, many things. We appreciate ideas. It's natural to want more. And more. But there's a point after which, the pain outweighs the gain. If you have a tendency to surf the internet and social media outlets a bit too much, consider the following:

The more information you're scanning, the less you're focusing.
Any surprises?
6. You're re-wiring your brain. And not in a good way.

3. You're procrastinating.
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4. You're wasting time.
Consuming information voraciously may well give you some creative doing so also interferes with the time you could be spending actually creating. The more time you spend sopping up other people's ideas, the less of your own you are generating, developing or executing.
7. You may be shortchanging your relationships.
Now: Actually measure and analyze your time use for a few days. Keep track of exactly how much time you are spending surfing news sites or participating in social media.
Activity: How much of your day is spent monitoring electronic information? Write down an estimate.
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Reality Check:
The more sedentary we are, the less healthy our bodies and the more likely we are putting on excess weight. If you're packing on the pounds, it might be time to step away from the keyboard and around the block. Walk the dog, ride a bike, go shopping, hit the your brain a break while you give some attention to your physical self.
8. You are hurting your health.
If you tend to struggle with procrastination, tech-checking behaviors, tech-related addictions are sinkholes riddled with procrastination landmines. ("I'll get started right after I check my email" becomes "What's the latest Gawker post" followed by "I gots to check my FB news feed -- check on my peeps!" or "I should really check the weather this weekend" and before you know it, it's 3 pm and you're still haven't started.
By definition, whatever time you're spending surfing the 'net, reading your Twitter/Facebook news feeds and/or attending to your fave RSS feeds, the less real work, the less real thinking you're doing and the less real creating you're doing.
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Research has proven that our brains create neural pathways reflective of our thought patterns. The more you jump around among different bits of information, the less focused you are, and the more likely that you are creating permanently distracted thinking pathways among your neurons. You're basically training yourself to NOT concentrate on anything, ever again.
1. You're being less creative.
If you're spending too much time online, you're missing out on time with your friends, family members and even your pets. The great irony of the tsunami of 'social media' is that those who indulge are spending less and less time socially, in person, with other humans.