Too Much Information

Have you ever wished you could just open your mind and clean out files you never use so you have more space for the information you really need? That is how I am feeling lately. I have too much information that I need to retain and not enough room in my brain to store it. At least that is how it feels. It reminds me of a fun Disney cartoon, Donald in Mathemagic Land. They go into his mind where it is a mess. Some of the file cabinets in Donald's mind are Aniquated Ideas, Bungling, False Concepts, Superstition, Confusion. The narrator goes in and cleans house so he can work with a clean slate and so Donald can think straight. I need to do a clean sweep of my mind today. This morning I found myself sitting at my desk trying to remember what I was just working on. Two hours later I walked down the hall to my boss's office to tell her something and the minute I walked through the door I forgot what I was going to tell her. However, I suddenly remembered what I was working on at my desk hours ago. It is so frustrating. I just stood in the doorway trying desperately to remember why I came down the hall because I didn't want to have to make the long trek back. After 5 minutes of mental confusion I gave up and walked back to my desk. The minute I sat down in my chair I remembered what I needed to tell my boss. I must be opening all the file drawers in my file cabinet and causing it to fall over and knock information out of my mind temporarily.

My mind is so bogged down with information that I am amazed I don't have words and letters floating out of my ears and surrounding my head. I am going through training at work right now. We have moved to a new computer system and because of my position I have to learn everything I can about this computer system to help train employees and troubleshoot issues. It is a lot of information to store in an already overused brain. I have so many different file cabinets and most of those have exploded or are too full that you can't put one more sheet of paper in them. It is time to clean house. But where do I start. For now, I guess I will just put all the papers away and buy a new file cabinet because it hurts to think.