Studies are indicating the new on onslaught of rapid-fire “all ways” on access is changing our brains. There are improvements in reaction time, peripheral vision, and neural agility. The counter side to this access is that many users are being overwhelmed by lack of time to ponder and being a powerless victim of a barrage of incoming pings. This presentation guides technology power users through a strategy for establishing a set of rules and procedures for reducing the stress associated with keeping total access.

1. Why are these things eating my life? Constructing Your Personal Communications Strategy By Terry P. Whitcher

2. We’re ON! and other prepositions (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

3. Chicken AND Egg Team environments Knowledge-intensive work No borders geography hierarchical time (clock & calendar) location (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

4. The Brain Change Response time improvements Continuous partial attention Operating in constant state of crisis External locus of control (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

5. Scrambled Eggs Reacting not thinking Not concentrating Making mistakes Increasing task time Increasing the workload Losing interpersonal skills Alert Addiction (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

6. Dysrationalia Approach Don’t do any of it Ignore it Unplug (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

7. Add Mindware to the Mix Make your communications work for you Improve performance Manage for effectiveness Enjoy communicating with people Reduce stress (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

8. Making the Connection 1. Meet your friends & contacts where they are 2. Get the devices and accounts that meet your needs inbound and outbound synchronous and asynchronous one-to-one, or one-to-many 3. Determine your use parameters 4. Be consistent and reliable (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

9. Rules of Engagement (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc. A suggestion: create a file that you can attach to your vCard as a reminder for your contacts.