Are you doing a GTD weekly review? If not, you are missing out on getting the clarity that you need on all the commitments you have made. Today, I wanted to talk about the evolution of my weekly review and share with you some ideas on how to get started doing your weekly review and [...] Read more »
Daily Review 1: Setting Up Your GTD Inboxes And Developing An Inbox Checklist
I thought I would kick off my first daily review by going over what I did today to set up my GTD inboxes. Today was a travel day for me so I didn’t have much time to actually spend time collecting but did want to share with you one of the first things I think [...] Read more »
002 How To Become A Black Belt At GTD And Master Your Time
In today’s weekly review podcast, I wanted to talk about how to become a black belt at GTD and master your time. I’ve been working with my GTD system since about 2006 and I have to tell you that no other system has had such a profound impact on my life than David Allen’s Getting [...] Read more »
BBP001: Introduction To Black Belt GTD
In my first podcast episode, I spend some time talking about the strategy I would use to become a Black Belt GTD if I was just starting out. There’s no fancy music and my voice has been known to put people to sleep but I thought that a podcast might be beneficial to some of [...] Read more »
GTD Voicemail: The Best Place To Start Working On Your System
So the other day I talked about using a GTD daily review checklist and how to use it to design the perfect day. What you are really after here is breaking down your day in little bits until you get it all down on paper and then use this checklist to build up your getting things [...] Read more »
The GTD Daily Review Checklist – How To Design The Perfect Day
In my last post, I talked about my GTD Areas of Focus and how I plan on using them as black belt levels. The plan is to work my way through each one with the goal of mastering it. Today, what I wanted to talk about is the GTD Daily Review and how to start [...] Read more »
GTD Areas Of Focus – The Black Belt Levels
In the last post I talked about The Basic Three Step Black Belt Training Program. Today I wanted to talk about the belt system I’m going to use to help you move in the direction of being a master of your life. A martial arts student starts his training as a white belt and as [...] Read more »
The Basic Three Step Black Belt Training Program
As I move along creating the foundation to help you and I master our life through GTD and more, I wanted to build on my last post called “The Dojo Kun of The Black Belt Project.” In that post, I discuss the difficulty in finding a starting point because everyone is at different stages in [...] Read more »
The Dojo Kun of The Black Belt Project
In my last post called “What is the Black Belt Project About” I talked about excellence and how a commitment to excellence is the first key to mastering your life. The challenge then is to figure out how to move from saying you’re committed to excellence to figuring out how to define it for yourself [...] Read more »
What Is The Black Belt Project About?
So I look over at my sidebar and see that this little site has garnered over 80 some readers at the time I write this. I figured that I should take some time to layout my vision for this site and discuss what the Black Belt Project is all about and how I hope it [...] Read more »
GTD Calendar
Today I wanted to talk about my GTD calendar. I went for years without using a calendar. Now my life is so complicated I can’t imagine not using a calendar. When it comes to your calendar and GTD, the main thing you are looking for is trust. You’ve got to trust that all of your [...] Read more »
GTD Collection For The New Year
So, today, I am sitting hear with the prospect of about two weeks off and figured now is a good time to start cleaning up my system so it’s ready to go for the New Year, January 1. To do that I am going to start with GTD collection. Over the last many many months, [...] Read more »
GTD Email
OK. Let’s try and pick up where I left off the other day. Right now I’ve got everything collected and am ready to start with my GTD email. It’s been a few days since I last posted about getting my getting things done system back into tip top shape. I’ve been able to maintain my [...] Read more »
GTD Getting Things Done
A few years back, I picked up a book at the bookstore called Getting Things Done by David Allen. At the time, I’d never heard of the book. It seemed interesting so I purchased it and took it home. I didn’t know it at the time, but this book profoundly changed the way I would [...] Read more »
GTD Email And Other Electronic Inboxes
OK. Now I’ve been working through my Getting Things Done GTD Thirty Day Challenge and now I am on to working on my GTD email. If you’ve been following along, I’ve gotten my collection caught up, I’ve my voicemail and text messages to zero. Now, it’s time to move forward a little more by moving [...] Read more »
GTD Daily Review Checklist
OK. So, now we’ve wrote down some things we want to review each day and it’s time to go over how to set up your GTD daily review checklist. Over the past three posts, I’ve been working through developing a list of things that I want to do to lay the ground work for what [...] Read more »
How To Process Your GTD Text Messages To Zero
Today I want to talk about how to process your text messages to zero. After I check my voice mail, this is the next GTD inbox that I zero out. Because text messages are a casual form of communication, they’re often forgot about as an additional inbox. In many cases people that use text messaging [...] Read more »
Start Here: GTD Collection
OK. So, it’s time to get your process moving with GTD collection. The first thing I always do when I process is collect everything together in one place so I can get a picture of what I have to do. The great thing about collection is that it doesn’t really require any heavy decision making. [...] Read more »
Get Your GTD Voicemail To Zero
Today’s post is about how to get your GTD voicemail to zero to zero. I don’t know about you, but lately, I’ve been letting things slide abit within my own system and I wanted to walk you through how I get things going again. So, with my first post, I wanted to start a GTD [...] Read more »