Is getting ready to get things done getting in the way of actually getting things done? For the “hero” in this story this seems to be a real challenge…(this video comes courtesy of a tip from Michael Sliwinski, Founder of Nozbe)

Our second video today is a special treat: it’s David Allen at Google presenting GTD and the two keys to sustaining a healthy life and work style. This is a fantastic video and is absolutely worth the 45 minutes or so to watch it through. If you haven’t seen this before you’re in for a great learning experience, if you have, it’s worth seeing twice (or even thrice).

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Google has just launched an amazing new service, Custom Time. The new application allows you to control when, as far back as the day Gmail launched (April 1, 2004) , you would like your sent email to arrive and appear chronologically in your recipients in box.

This application is great. Particularly, if for some reason you are Not Getting Things Done (on time) and thus need to resort to some artifice to convince people that you really are just as productive as ever and that their email reading skills are really to blame. Not only can you control the date and time at which an email will appear to have arrived, but you also have the option of making the message appear to have been marked read or unread as your preference (and degree of cruelty) dictate.

Of course it goes without saying that an application this powerful as well as devious should be used sparingly. Not only because using it too frequently might expose you to suspicion and the likelihood of discovery, but also because you could disrupt the space-time continuum, causing a temporal rift that results in you going back to a date and time before you were conceived, interfering with your own conception and causing you to cease to ex…

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