Are you as bothered as I am by all the offers that inundate your inbox?

I spent some time this week unsubscribing to the marketers who barrage me with multiple offers a day. Offers pile in and create huge stress.  I know that most of  these marketers don't give diddly squat if there is any value at all to their offers. Probably haven't even read through the products they are offering, far less test them.

Nonetheless, yours truly is afflicted with curiosity. Addicted is a better word. I poke my nose in to check out what's happening. Why? Because I don't want to miss anything and am easily seduced into thinking someone's going to teach me something I don't already know.

Well, no doubt, there's always something new to learn in IM. But, do you really need that extra knowledge in order to have success? Maybe giving mental space to that great new software is a waste of time because it is probably just bogus anyway. Even if it is brilliant software, you may not really need it.

Tomorrow, someone will come up with another program that sounds better.

Frankly, I also don't trust that some of these schemes won't get me into trouble. These people selling autoblogging software are actually selling tools to steal content from legitimate bloggers. You wouldn't want that done to you. If you do decide to be a thief, then you want to know that you're a thief.

At best, the grand bazaar of Internet goodies is taking us off our game. Even if it works as well as the marketer claims it does, do we really need all that complication to get from point A to point B?

If you are like me, then we are both suffering from being over zealous, an over active learning metabolism. Eyes bigger than our stomachs. Want to know, want to know, want to know. Insatiable appetite for learning this business!  We are seated at a banquet, and we want to sample all the food. We don't need to eat all that food, especially when some of it is poison, and eating too much of the good food will only give us a belly ache.

Too much information is like too much food, especially in IM. You reach a point when it becomes useless and actually harmful. If we can't apply it, then it is useless, and it's holding us back because it's taking up valuable space.

Essentially, I like simplicity in all things. To communicate a message well, just make it simple. To learn a new thing so that you can actually apply what you learn effectively, should be taught simply.

Now, I must heed my own words. Put my money where my mouth is.

Sharing this because I know I'm not alone.