From my own personal experience, I know if I am not motivated, I like to sleep. Sleep is a time when you can shut off the stresses of life and get away from problems. I think sleep provides an escape for a lot of people when they don’t have focus or are otherwise unhappy with [...] Read more »
Success Starts When No One Is Watching
If you follow me, you will not doubt notice that I will go through stretches of time where it seems like nothing is happening. And on your end, that might seem to be the case. Behind the scenes though, it’s a different story. I’m plotting my next move and working towards goals that I have [...] Read more »
Why You Need To Start Your Own Business To Become Financially Independent
In my last post I talked about how to become financially independent. I talked a little about how to break it down into steps from your smallest bill to your largest. Determine how much money you need to save that would generate enough income to pay those bills. The missing ingredient here is how to [...] Read more »
How To Achieve Financial Independence
Over the years, I’ve read a lot of how to stuff. I’ve read a lot of motivational stuff. A common theme among many of these works is that most people want to achieve financial independence. But for most people, this is just a dream they will never realize because they don’t have a plan behind [...] Read more »
What To Do When You Don’t Complete A Thirty Day Challenge And My Next Challenge
My thirty day challenge for the month of March is to complete the collection section of my GTD daily review checklist. I’ve been working on getting my checklist fine tuned and now what I want to start doing is getting each of these sections done on a daily basis. I’m going to start with the [...] Read more »
Live GTD Weekly Review On Google + Hangout This Sunday
This Sunday evening at 11pm, ET, I will conduct my first live event. It’s called a Google + Hangout. During the hangout, I will walk you through my GTD weekly review so that you can see what an actual weekly review looks like. You’ll be able to ask questions as I work through my weekly [...] Read more »
Started Adding Projects And An Agendas List To My Daily Checklist
I spent more time today updating my daily checklist. Primarily I focused on adding personal projects to it. These were primarily financial and household accounts that I have to keep an eye on each week. I use the projects list during my weekly review. I like to have each account I have on the project [...] Read more »
How I’m Expanding My GTD Daily Review Checklist To Get EVERYTHING Out Of My Head
In my last article, I showed a snapshot of my daily review checklist and mentioned the first five sections of my checklist were for the five phases of GTD workflow. Those were, collecting, processing, organizing, doing and reviewing. I have started building out the steps I take in those areas and have expanded my checklist [...] Read more »
My Thirty Day Challenge For The Month Of February: Work On My Daily Review Checklist Each Day
It’s the first of the month and time to start another thirty day challenge. If you read my post from yesterday, you know that I completed my last thirty day challenge which was to walk for three miles each day. I continued walking three miles again today and started my new thirty day challenge which [...] Read more »
I Completed My Thirty Day Challenge, Now What?
It’s the last day of January and it marks the completion of my thirty day challenge which was to walk three miles each day. I’ve been doing these for nearly a year now and so I know what the next step is. But if you just completed your first thirty day challenge, you might be [...] Read more »
The Next Step Of Active Visualization
Yesterday I talked about beginning your active visualization. Today, I wanted to start going over step two of your active visualization which is to identify the next actions you can take to make those images you have in your mind come true. In this podcast, I talk about how I suggest you do it and [...] Read more »
How To Begin To Actively Visualize What You Want
In today’s podcast, I talk about how to begin to actively visualize what you want. There are three main components to becoming a white belt master here at the Black Belt Project. They are, creating change with thirty day challenges, building mental strength with checklists and designing your life with active visualization. It’s the last [...] Read more »
Start Planning Your Next Thirty Day Challenge
As I approach the end of the month, I have a few things on my mind. The first is that I am excited that I’m about to complete a thirty day challenge. This month, I’ve been walking three miles every day. The next thing I start thinking about is maintaining what I start this month [...] Read more »
How Many Thirty Day Challenges Do You Need To Do?
This is the first month, I’ve “officially” had members doing thirty day challenges along with me. As we near the successful completion of a month of creating change in our lives, does doing a thirty day challenge for one month mean that you have mastered change in your life. And if it doesn’t, then how [...] Read more »
How To Improve Your GTD System To A Black Belt Level
Over the last few days I’ve started building a daily review checklist. To get it started, I’ve been taking a close look at exactly all the steps that I take to do that and getting them down on paper. I’ve also streamlined my email a bit by setting up a bunch of filters to get [...] Read more »
An Example On How To Use The Tasks On Your Daily Review Checklist To Raise The Bar And Increase Your Mental Strength
OK. Yesterday, I finally got to the main concept of building mental strength. That was figuring out where to set the bar. The bar is placed at the place on your checklist that you didn’t get to on the previous day. Your goal each day is to get to the bar and to strive for [...] Read more »
Figuring Out How Many Tasks You Can Do Each Day So You Know Exactly How Mentally Strong You Are
Yesterday, I started to break down the email checklist I am building to illustrate how you build mental strength. I wanted to pick up where I left off in the last post and talk more about that today. Before I get into it, just a reminder, I’m of the view that before you can increase [...] Read more »
Starting My Email Checklist So I Can Begin To Assess My Mental Strength
Yesterday, I talked about my folder structure inside my email account. I then made a list of those folders and put that list into my daily review checklist. While a lot of people look at their email account as an inbox, I look at each folder in my email account as an inbox. I list [...] Read more »
Getting Started On Building My Mental Strength Using My Email Account As The Starting Point
A couple of days ago, I started talking about the two types of mental strength. The first was the mental strength we use to remember everything and the second form of mental strength was what we use to get our tasks done. I suggested that the first way to get your mental strength up was [...] Read more »
The Two Components of Mental Strength
As we are near the half way point of this month’s thirty day challenge, I wanted to start working on the next phase of the white belt master training. With several members progressing through their first official challenges, I have to stay one step ahead of everyone. The nice thing about seeing other people do [...] Read more »