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Ever had the feeling that the meetings you attend are a complete waste of time? No agenda, no organizer, just some incoherent emotional rambling about stuff that bothers you and the others. Well, check out these six ways to hold a tight meeting. Just as they do at Google HQ. # Set a firm agenda…

[[image:172651123_798af692b8_m.jpg::left:0]] Today I received a very interesting link in my feedreader. The dutch PR Firm for “Mindjet”:http://www.mindjet.com/eu/ is giving away free copies of the excellent program Mindmanager for bloggers. If you like to brainstorm, think through processes and generaly get things of your mind, Mindmanager can be a wonderful tool for you. As they say…

From the Ready For Anything reading group I found “this link”:http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/34/allen.html to an old Fast Company interview with The Dave. Great stuff. With one very true and very beautiful quote You can do anything — but not everything. Print it on a tile, hang it on your monitor. Very true!

In the fourth installment of Sunday Shortcuts (yes I know it’s monday…) I would like to put the spotlight on one of the best Firefox extensions I have seen. The “Gmail Macros”:http://www.mscape.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=macros make it very very easy for you to manage your email in Gmail. The script is Firefox only and you will need the…

Do you use your mobile smartphone a lot for capturing ideas or checking tasks? Do you have Outlook as your primary GTD system? Than perhaps “SmarterTasks”:http://www.smartertasks.com/default.aspx might be an interesting option for you. I haven’t had the chance to try it out myself but the screenshots and key features look promising [[image:screenshots-anim.gif::center:0]] # Designed for…

[[image:tessthumb.jpg::left:0]]”Where are the sunday shortcuts?”, “Where are the new articles?” All valid questions…but I had something far far far more important to do the last couple of weeks. And the coming years. Me and my girlfriend Helie are very happy with our new daughter Tess. Her full name is Tess Moana Meeuwsen. Her middle name…