Networking is really about oneself and one's own values, moral principles, ethics and nature. It is not that related to number of contacts, education, years ofexperience, personal encounters, previous working experience, etc… Ifone is really reliable, one will act correctly online and offline, inBrazil or anywhere in the world. Then question is how do you know who is good or bad for you? Well, whenever I interact with somebody, I use my own checking list based on 5 basic points:

1.Identification: looking at my key words and profile, what do we have in common?
2.Complementarities: how can our skills, knowledge and experiences complement each other?
3.Synergies: how can we sum up our skills, knowledge and experiences so that 1+1 = 3?
4.Leverage: how can we accelerate our growth and wealth exponentially by working together at a minimum effort?
5.Resonance: how much do our values, principles; beliefs, passions, purposes, energy resonate at the same frequency?

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**** Leave a message if you want to connect with me @ LinkedIn (Danny)

Turn Gmail into a powerfull time management tool

GTDGmail can be easily called paraphrasing another promising service , as the best thing that happened to Gmail since Gmail.

Done by the same guys that created BumbleSearch (aka Andy Mitchell and Chris Korhonen) GTDGmail in short is a Firefox / Flock extension that works on the same principles as Greasemonkey to turn your Gmail account into a powerfull task manager.

In their own words, GTDGmail means:

“GTD - Getting Things Done - is a simple and effective productivity concept: designed so that even the laziest and most scattered of people can be organised and stress free. “

GTD is a productivity concept by David Allen that implies that “that a person needs to move tasks out of their mind and get them recorded somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate fully on actually performing those tasks.” At the core of the system are the following principles:

• Collect
• Process
• Organize
• Review
• Do

While Gmail COLLECTS various pieces of informations daily, GTDGmail helps you Process, Organize and Review tasks in order to facilitate Doing.

GTDGmail features:

1. Easily Organise GTD Labels:Labels are now structured into Contexts, Status, Projects and References; making it easier to read and use. The labels the sytem needs are very easy created in the Settings section using a wizard like interface.


2. Labels can be applied much more rapidly than in standard Gmail. If in standard Gmail, applying labels is done through a dropdown list, with GTDGmail applying labels is more easy. In the inbox view, an icon provides all the needed labels, or when viewing an email all the labels are listed on the top of it

Apply labels from Inbox

Apply labels from email
3. Quickly Review Outstanding Tasks. Once the labels are setup and applied to a few messages, you can start using the organizing features.
a) Normally from the labels box
b) Using quick shortcuts from GTD Review on top the email messages:

c) Quickly review outstanding GTD tasks that are over a few days old using the new advanced GTD search:

4. Save Specialised Searches. Searches can be created and saved that enable precise queries over your GTD tasks.
5. Send Myself Tasks and References. One of the features I like the most is ability to mail yourself different tasks. You can quickly compose Tasks and References and send them to your Inbox. In order to do this, GTD hides the TO: field and sends emails to your address in the formats gmailaccount+task and gmailaccount+refference.

Other stuff you should know:
1. Legally speaking, any page modifications are against Gmail’s T&Cs. Therefore, as a disclaimer they had to state that you run GTDGmail at your own risk. (GTD Gmail is a perfect addon to Gmail. Google guys should be complete retards killing accounts of users that use it and in fact they should immediately hire Andy)

2. In order to take the maximum profit of GTDGmail you should familiarize yourself with the GTD system. If it doesn’t fit you than there are still options for you. Check the Tips&Tricks section for that.

*** See also: http://www.davidco.com/tips_tools.php The David Allen Company
http://ideamatt.blogspot.com/2005/09/dealing-with-meeting-notes-gtd-to.html

or http://cnxn.ca/NoFoldersTutorial.html#Sorting_Email

http://home.comcast.net/%7Ewhkratz/id3.htm

as well as www.cool-time.com

and if you have any comments about how to implement these ideas please leave a meessage.

Let your actions reflect your values

By Harold Taylor

Make a list of the people you really enjoy spending time with. How much time did you spend with those people during the past week? Last month? Last year? Chances are, there are people – perhaps family members – who are being crowded out of your life because of your busyness. In fact, some people are so busy networking they have little time for anyone who is not a business associate.

Be careful that you don’t allow the people that count to be crowded out by things that don’t. Our choices in life have multiplied exponentially during the past decade. We can cruise the internet, take photos with digital cameras or cell phones, listen to music on iPods, scan hundreds of channels on our TV sets, play with our PDAs, ad infinitum. We could spend a lifetime reading instruction manuals for electronic toys and household gadgets.

It’s a life of choices. And the problem is, there are too many of them. If we are not careful, what we do may not reflect our true values. We must make sure that we don’t lose sight of what’s really important.

Take that list of people, for instance. To ensure that you will spend adequate time with them, make commitments now. Schedule time in your planner next week or next month for a coffee, luncheon or night on the town. Never end a conversation with a good friend by saying, “Let’s get together sometime.” Instead, say, “Let’s schedule a time when we can get together.”

© 2000, 2006, Harold Taylor Time Consultants Ltd.