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 »
Why You Must Get Everything Out Of Your Head
In the membership area today, I posted a video about how I am working on my daily review checklist. I view the checklist as the key component to a stress free life. Here’s why. Most of the time, I spend time thinking about work, even when I am not working. The reason is because I [...] Read more »
Daily Review #11 Learn How To Determine Your Black Belt GTD Level
In daily review #11, don’t ask me why I called it daily review #12 in the video, I discuss how important the checklist is to your black belt gtd setup and how to figure out just what level of black belt that you are. I believe that it’s important to get everything out of your [...] Read more »
Daily Review #10 Getting My Email Inbox To Empty
In today’s review, I talk a little about the next step in getting my GTD system in shape. In the last episode, I got my voicemail to empty. Today, I got my email inbox to zero. I had nearly a 1000 emails in my inbox when I started as I had been neglected for the [...] Read more »
014 Use Your GTD Weekly Review To Get Your System In Shape
When I first started doing GTD, I didn’t really do a weekly review. I just worked on getting my inboxes to zero. Over time, I ended up reaching that goal. Later, I made my first project list and then finally I started doing a weekly review. The clarity I had at that point was amazing [...] Read more »
Why It’s Important To Visualize What You Want And Take Action Now
Whether you feel stuck in your current situation or are well on your way to mastering your life, an important component to getting what you want is to visualize your outcome. This visualization process doesn’t have to be an all out formal process. For me, it’s nearly enough to say what you want and take [...] Read more »
Daily Review #9: Getting My Voicemail Processed
In today’s daily review I talk about formulating a path to obtaining your first belt which will be the white belt master. On the white belt page, I’ve started brainstorming some ideas on how to know when you have achieved the level of white belt master. One of the things I talk a little about [...] Read more »
Daily Review Checklist
I’m slowly building a daily review checklist. You can see the checklist as it is currently by visiting this google doc. Click here to go to my: Daily Review Checklist This is a live document and as I update it, you will have a current view of my daily review checklist. Read more »
Daily Review 8: Starting My Daily Checklist
This is daily review #8 and in it I discuss the first steps I took towards my journey to black belt. This is a members only podcast. Read more »
How To Master Processing ALL Of Your Inboxes To Zero
When you are first starting out with GTD, it’s easy to be a little excited that one day, you’ll have an empty inbox. I remember the first time that I found the book Getting Things Done, I really didn’t have any expectations. I found it in the bookstore and thought it seemed interesting. As I [...] Read more »
The Dojo Membership Area Has Been Updated
Just a quick update to all of my members that I have been working on updating the dashboard to the membership area. I refer to this area as the Dojo. The Dojo is your training area that will contain the training materials as I create them. Inside you’ll find a new video where I talk [...] Read more »
The Daily Reviews
On this page, you’ll find a collection of all of the daily reviews posted here at the Black Belt Project. The majority of daily reviews are for members only while a few are available to all visitors of the Black Belt Project. The purpose of the daily review is to keep things moving forward and to give you and inside look at what [...] Read more »
Why You Need To Start Completing Thirty Day Challenges
Well today marks the end of another thirty day challenge. This month’s challenge was to write an article very day. This article marks the thirtieth article I have written on this site. Over the last few months I have completed several thirty day challenges. Because of that I am starting to create some momentum. I [...] Read more »
What It Takes To Be The Best
When I think of the term black belt, I think of being the best. A master at what I do with skills at the highest level. Images of champions in sport and business come to mind. And it makes me ask the question, what does it really take to be the best? I think the [...] Read more »
Founding Member Program Closed
Over the past few months, I’ve been encouraging my readers to sign up as a founding member to the Black Belt Project. Nearly 200 of you signed on to be founding members to the site. The site remains in beta at this point but over the next few weeks, I plan to officially launch the [...] Read more »
Why I Use One Main GTD Context
In today’s world, it’s easy to be connected to your work. While both a problem and an advantage, it does create problems trying to figure out what context to put your GTD next actions in. If you are just starting out, I strongly suggest that you go with the contexts for your next actions that [...] Read more »