Thanks for your comment, Jim. I hear you. Yesterday I was catching up on my blog reading and ended up with about a dozen posts I wanted to blog about. For most I just commented and retweeted. I'll only blog about 1 or 2.

I and my children are being overwhelmed with our new undertaking – Tang Soo Do. In 2mths we've gone from never having heard of it to already having done (and passed) our first grading. And I'm pain free for the first time in 25yrs.

FWIW, I don't mind being overwhelmed when jumping into something new. I'm trying some new things – some software, some rules/systems for managing things. Learning more about what's important and what's not as I go along. Continuing to tweak. I'm considering a series of blog posts on social media and time management in January, since that's when a lot of people set goals and resolutions to improve in the new year.

And the fact that I'm only now commenting on your post about it – after having already made an attempt myself – shows that I'm drowning also.

But, I do think that my drowning is not so much in keeping up (I tend to do a splurge on keep up) but more because I'm finding that all of this isn't fulfilling my wants for it. I only follow approx a quarter the number you do and struggle with that so can't imagine your trials.

I do like your strategy though and perhaps this is something I ought to do – set myself a strategy or a goal to read x blogs a day irrespective. However, I think my keeping up issue has a lot to do with trying to be honourable with all my real life commitments – my family, etc and as much as I want to dive in deeper and build more and better relationships I also need to take stock of what's around me.

Let me thank you for your sharing and your commitment – I for one appreciate it.

One thing I would suggest and you have probably heard this before or know this for yourself, but take your time and work into something.

I read about 100-150 blogs myself daily. I comment on 50 of those blogs. But it took me a little while to build up to that.

Maybe you might feel a little overwhelmed by the fact that you have 100 blogs to read on your google reader? But I think it starts slowly and then it becomes a way of doing things.

Now a days it is a daily occurrence that I read all those blogs, comment, post a couple of blogs, and stay involved in a 300 people tweet stream. But I thin that takes a little while and by no means am I there yet or am claiming to do a great job at doing all of this.

But keep it up, because it will change for you shortly and you will start to really develop a strategy.