I wrapped up day four of the White Belt Master Training in the members area. Today I talked about how to keep track of your thirty day challenges and why it’s important. As I have said in the past, one of the basics at mastering your life is the ability to master change. You master [...] Read more »
White Belt Master Training Day 4 Tracking Your Thirty Day Challenges
On Day 4, I want to revisit the thirty day challenges you are doing. Part of the psychology behind the thirty day challenge is to create a mindset that you can do something that you set out to do. That’s why I suggest that you start out with something easy that you know you can [...] Read more »
White Belt Master Training Day #3 Now Available In The Members Area
On day 3 of the White Belt Master Training, I talk about a concept I call active visualization and give you the formula for active visualization. It’s available to all members of the Black Belt Project. If you are not a member of the Black Belt Project, you can join here. In today’s training, I [...] Read more »
White Belt Master Training Day 3 – The Formula For Active Visualization
Over the last two days, you’ve started to lay the ground work to become a White Belt Master. You’ve started a thirty day challenge to learn how to change. You have started a checklist to start to begin the process to measure your mental strength. On day three, before I expand on those concepts, the [...] Read more »
White Belt Master Training Day 2 Is Now Available In The Members Area
So it’s on to day two of our white belt master training. If you are a member and are following along, then you should have started your thirty day challenge and completed day two today. In today’s training, I talk with you about how to start to assess your mental strength. I think it’s important [...] Read more »
White Belt Master Training Day Two – Assessing Your Mental Strength
OK. So I completed my thirty day challenge for day two by walking for three miles again today. As a white belt, you need to continue your thirty day challenge for the next thirty days. For day two of our White Belt Master Training, it’s time to start assessing your mental strength. Mental strength is [...] Read more »
White Belt Master Training Day One Complete In The Members Area
I’ve completed day one of the White Belt Master Training and it’s now available to members only. In today’s training I talked about the most important rule in the Dojo Kun. That rule is that we only talk about what we have done and not about what we like to do. I also talked about [...] Read more »
White Belt Master Day 1: The Most Important Rule In The Dojo Kun And Getting Your Thirty Day Challenge Underway
Okay white belt students. It’s day one of the journey to White Belt Master. I’m excited for you. I’m excited because I know that you want a better life than you feel you have today. In order to achieve that, it probably is a safe bet that you need to change some things in your [...] Read more »
First White Belt Master Training Starts January 1st
I wanted to get a quick announcement out to everyone that the first White Belt Master Training starts on January 1st. As a lot of you know, this site is a work in progress. I’ve started formulating the requirements to become a White Belt Master on a member page called Your Complete Guide To Becoming [...] Read more »
How To Measure Your Mental Strength And How To Improve It
Tonight I wanted to talk about how to measure your mental strength and how to improve it. Mental toughness is something that a lot of people talk about but few people know how to measure. We know what it looks like when we see it. We know what it feels like when we have it. [...] Read more »
What To Do When You Lose Momentum
If you have been stuck and started to do what I suggest and start doing thirty day challenges, then you will notice that after you do a few, you will start to create some momentum and be able to do each successive thirty day challenge a lot easier than the one before. This momentum is [...] Read more »
Daily Review #17 More Discussion On How To Become A White Belt Master
In today’s daily review, I talk more about how to become a white belt master. A white belt master is a beginning student that understands the fundamentals of mastery and how to apply them. Just like I advocate to you, start getting those thoughts down and start working on constant improvement. Anything you do won’t [...] Read more »
Daily Review #16 How To Use Checklists To Help You Avoid Mistakes
Today, I talk about how a checklist can help you avoid making mistakes. No matter how good we are, sometimes we don’t make the best decisions. Maybe we get tired. Maybe we had something we didn’t like happen to us or maybe we just have a bad day. As much as we would like to [...] Read more »
How To Use Your Areas Of Focus To Start Projects And Identify Next Actions
In this weekly review I talk about how to start creating projects from your areas of focus list and then to identify the next actions for them. I also spend some time talking about some changes I’ve been making in the member area. This week some of our members decided to start working on becoming [...] Read more »
Subscribe To The Black Belt Project Google Calendar
I wanted to let everyone know that if you use the google calendar, I’ve made the Black Belt Project google calendar available for you to subscribe to and add to your own calendar in your google account. Just visit the calendar page and click the button at the bottom of the calendar to add it [...] Read more »
Daily Review #15 Discussion From The Forums, Thirty Day Challenges And Checklists
In tonight’s daily review, I spend some time talking about some ideas tossed around in the forums and also talk about creating a central repository for our work on thirty day challenges and the checklists that we all put together. Read more »
Daily Review #14 Creating The Foundation For The White Belt Master
I start discussing what I think is important for white belt beginning students to master. It’s kind of late tonight and I don’t have time to give you a full recap. The idea behind tonight’s discussion is to begin the process of identifying what needs to be mastered and why it matters. Read more »
How To Set Up Your Gravatar
I had some questions about what an avatar is, what it does and how to set it up at gravatar.com. I decided the best way to answer these questions was to do a video tutorial that answered these questions. While not required to be a member of the Black Belt Project, I think it will [...] Read more »
Become The Site’s First White Belt Master And Get A Free One Year Membership
As I pondered what to write about today, I thought I would try and get some community involvement going by seeking a volunteer to become the site’s first white belt master. The first white belt founding member who responds in the forum and then also completes the training will then receive a free one year [...] Read more »
Daily Review #12 How To Live In The Moment
One of the things that I have struggled with in the past is how to live in the moment – particularly when I am doing things that are important like spending time with family. During those times, I always feel like I should be doing the work I didn’t get accomplished either because I wasn’t [...] Read more »
