Google has released a new, free Google Apps Team Edition designed to implement Google Apps collaboration with others in your group/team. All you need is to have the same domain name in your email addresses to be able to share/collaborate with your team members using Google Docs, Gcal, Gtalk, and a Google Start Page to bring it all together. You can even share Calendars in Gcal !

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By fixing the amount of time we spend on a given set of tasks, we can focus on doing the things that matter, give us motivation to start, prevent overruns and use our “null” times effectively. In contrast, if we worked on things until completion in one sitting, we’re less likely to start on complex tasks, more likely to overrun on open ended tasks and leaves us with less time and motivation to work on the next set of tasks.

Source: David Seah

Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website in a presentation at Google Headquarters talks about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email.

This is becoming one of the better books I've read in a while. Give it a try. It's been an eye opener for me.

To complement what I wrote earlier about the Be-Do-Have concept; I introduce to you the best productivity tip of all time:

Do Something You Like!

Yes, indeed. If you're passionate about the things you want to accomplish, and love what you do, nothing else matters. Things will Get Done!

Dave Cheong wrote a great post about Procastination, and it's relationship to Payoff and Pain. Here is a snippet. Click on the links to read the whole article.

I’ve often thought about why we Procrastinate. If one was logical, one would assume if there’s something that needed to be done and was Urgent/Important or rewarding enough, we’d get on to it right away.

As you may know, I've become a big fan of GTD (getting Things Done).

I've tried several applications on both PC's and my iMac. Here and here are a few comparisons I did a while back.

Finally, I think I've found the applications that works the best for me. It's called iGTD!

I've been using the ThinkingRock GTD application for several weeks now. I like the fact that I can run it on both my Mac and Windows machines.
However, there is a new player in the GTD application arena. The GhostAction is a Mac only app. and looks very promising.

This is a great read. It is Reclaim Your Life: A Two-Week Challenge to Help You Regain Time, a 17 pages free downloadable pdf manifesto which is well worth reading.

If you've decided to start 2007 learning and using the Getting Things Done methodology, good for you! Then you should visit Lisa Peake's 10 Beginner Behaviors. GTD can take some getting used to, but Lisa, who manages GTD Connect at David Allen's company, has 10 really good starter points in her post.