How to Choose the Right Tool for Your Life

The first step of this strategy is to identify the main high-level goals in both your professional and personal life. Once you've identified these goals, list for each the two or three most important activities that help you satisfy the goal. The next step in this strategy isto consider the network tools you currently use. For each such tool, ask whether the use of the tool has a substantially positive impact, a substantially negative impact, or little impact on your regular and successful Participation. Now comes the important decision. Keep using this tool only if you concluded that it has substantial positive impacts and that these outweigh the negative impacts.