Many of you know that along with health I also have a passion for technology, and our rapidly expanding ability to store large amounts of information in smaller and smaller spaces is amazing.

Of course, this eventually begs the question, how will we handle all of this newly stored information? Most of us have a hard enough time just trying to manage all of the incoming information in our own lives, let alone figuring out what to do with a rapidly expanding amount of information that will soon be at our fingertips. We get it from all angles now--e-mail, phone, regular mail, cell phone, pager, fax machine, you name it--and it can certainly seem overwhelming when you try to manage it all.

A major tool to help you weed through this digital overload is the excellent book Getting Things Done. If you haven’t already purchased it, I would highly recommend that you do so.

Effective goal setting can change your life when it comes to health and the ability to maximally enjoy life. People often ask me how I’m able to write this newsletter twice a week, run a full-time medical practice with a staff of 50, write and promote my new book coming out this December, "Dr. Mercola's Total Health Program: 150 Delicious Grain-Free Recipes & The Proven Plan to Prevent Disease, Optimize Weight and Live Longer," and direct one of the top-10 health sites on the entire Web.

I thought I had a good handle on this until recently when I came across the book I mentioned above, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen.

David Allen's approach to managing yourself and your world may be amongst the best advice you ever receive, too. It is profoundly practical, realistic, hands-on, and superbly focused with hundreds of tips, tools, and techniques for improving your personal productivity. You don’t need to worry about managing all of the new information in the world, just get a handle on the information coming in to your own life and you’ll be in good shape.

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