Productivity Power-Up

The Productivity Power-Up 🔋

The Productivity Power-Up is a 4 week, 8 session live course teaching you the essentials of effective work and breakthrough success on your goals. Round 4 opens in Summer 2022.

Does each week feel like a non-stop blur? 😵‍💫

You wake up and start the day reacting to the news, bosses, co-workers, even family. You try your best to get everything done, you still end up overwhelmed, adrift, and feeling like (or knowing) there's still a mountain of things left to do.
But there's good news...

Achieving your goals can be really simple...

...but with everything that happens in a week it's easy to lose track of the the simple ways to stay on track to achieving your goals.

You know how a day can go - wake up and start the day reacting to the news, bosses, co-workers, even family. You try your best to get everything done, you still end up overwhelmed, adrift, and feeling like (or knowing) there's still a mountain of things left to do!

Planning the week, making to-do lists, blocking time, prioritizing tasks, and reviewing the week are all things you're familiar with but it's still hard to put the pieces together in a meaningful way.

It's like you're looking at a puzzle with all the parts scattered about. You can tell what each one does individually but struggle assemble a greater system.

Stack Successful Days 🧱 into Winning Weeks 🏆

Every morning is an opportunity to start again - whether you're in a productive rhythm or not. A few successful days lead to a winning week, sharpened skills, and a much needed confidence boost. Because here's the secret of long-term productivity and reaching the summit of your goals and aspirations.

Successful days lead to winning weeks, which stack on top of each other into your best year ever.

You can even approach a small set of weeks, i.e. a 6 week sprint, to complete a significant goal in a reasonable amount of time. For example, I created this course in a focused 6 week sprint. We will cover all the material + implementation calls in another 6 week sprint.

✍️ Want to write a book? Stack 12 good weeks of writing together, like Stephen King does.

💰 Want to hit your monthly sales target? Stack days and weeks of sales calls to best fit customers.

📹 Want to start a YouTube channel? Stack 10 weeks of short videos then decide if it's a thing you want to keep doing (more on that 10 round concept in the course, it's a game-changer).

You'll Learn to Master These Power-Up Skills

Achieve Goals by Stacking Winning Weeks 🧱

The most effective way to reach your goals is by stacking productive weeks. In this course you'll learn how to break down your goals into weekly wins, making success inevitable.

Cultivate a "Kit Builder Mindset" for Success 🧰

You'll learn how to combine the skills you've learned into a productivity kit that fits exactly what you need to do for the challenge you face or the goal you want to achieve.

Own Your Attention & Eliminate Distraction 👀

Your attention is the most valuable resource you have. Learn how to identify the reasons behind distraction so you can be more focused.

Increase Your Daily Impact with 2% Time ⏰

Learn how proper planning takes only 2% of your daily time but has an exponential effect on the other 98% of your day.

The Productive Week Principle

The span of a week is the building block of our system. It's long enough to make real progress on a goal, but short enough that a bad week doesn't wreck the entire year. That's great news.

At the beginning of each week, define your goal(s). Next, write down every action or contingency you can think of that leads to the achievement of your goal. Finally, look over your calendar and protect time to work on those action tasks. Now, let's get to work!

At a glance that may look too simplistic. But there's the beauty of the system - simplicity leads to speed and limits friction. You can do all of this with pen and paper (like I do with a bullet journal). Don't be fooled by simplicity, embrace it. Because here's the simple truth of a productive year...

Successful days lead to winning weeks, which stack on top of each other into your best year ever.

Create a personal productivity system

The biggest thing I've gotten from the course is how you take all these productivity tools and put them together in a cohesive system.

I like to learn about productivity and have taken different courses, even had coaches in the past, but this course has helped me visualize how I can combine everything in a way that works for me. - Max McGuire

Start Turning The Productivity Flywheel

In my experience, any productivity tactic, tip, or strategy can be filtered into one of these four buckets. Once you understand how the loop works it's easy to identify your strengths and areas of improvement.

The Productivity Flywheel helps define your actions, protect time, organize your ideas, and choose the right tool(s) for success. It creates a virtuous cycle of productivity and success to use over and over.

A Virtuous Cycle of Confidence → Competence

With every turn of the Productivity Flywheel you build confidence and momentum in your work and life. This naturally increases your competence and effectiveness. It's a natural, linear progression you can master without much practice - but you do need to be proactive and mindful as the flywheel turns.

A common reason people join the Power-Up 🔋 is to start creating content - whether a YouTube channel, podcast, email newsletter, or short essays/threads on Twitter. So how does the Productive Flywheel apply to creative goals like these? Here's an example...

Action: my goal is to launch and create 10 videos on YouTube
Time: I will protecting 4 hours each week to create and edit videos
Ideas: I'll keep a notebook of ideas and information to make video creation easier
Tools: camera, editing software, digital and/or analog notebook

See how each part of the flywheel helps build momentum for the others? When I define my goals and tasks, protect time to work on them, organize my ideas, and pick the right tools for each step, I'll keep the flywheel moving and build momentum!

The best part? You can use the flywheel to identify the needs for individual tasks, goals, projects, anything you need! Use it for the big goal of starting a YouTube channel, then shrink it down to understand what needs to be done for each video you create. Make sense?

Breaking everything down was a huge help!

I used my new power-ups from the course to confidently launch my new podcast and have systems in place to keep publishing consistently! I've never gotten this far, thank you, thank you, thank you! - Tish Bouliver

Introducing the Productivity Power-Up 🔋

In the course you'll learn the Productivity Flywheel and how specific "power-up" skills help you face any challenge, overcome obstacles, and do the work you're meant to do each week.

You'll enter each day with a clear plan of action, ability to quickly prioritize and pivot, project clarity to others while building confidence in your own power.

You'll develop a "kit builder" mindset that treats each productivity tip, tactic, and strategy as a power-up skill you can use (or not) depending on the goal for that day. No more trying to do it all, going through never-ending checklists, and getting frustrated you're not further along.

Instead you'll develop an effective yet simple system. This "productivity kit" is what helps you turn the flywheel of success by identifying which of your many skills are needed to accomplish the daily or weekly goal. No more, no less. I'll help you keep it simple so you can go fast.

Principles like simplicity, clarity, and belief available to everyone. What I will help you with in the course is realizing everything you need to be successful is already inside you.

$297 or 2 monthly payments of $177

Full Cycle Productivity [Self-Guided Edition]

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35 Lessons

📚 8 core lessons & resources 🎁 Bonus tutorial video & templates for Notion 👨‍🏫 Monthly member Q&A session 💰 Credit up to $200 to a live cohort!

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Course Curriculum & Power-Ups

🧱 Lesson 1: Stacking Productive Weeks

From the very beginning we start stacking productive, effective weeks. You'll learn how to focus tasks and knock out weekly deliverables that help you make progress on your biggest goals. When you're proactive and intentional at the start of the week it will laser focus your productivity and give you confidence to say "no" or "not yet" to non-urgent tasks that seek to distract us.

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - GAP Weekly Preview

🗺️ Lesson 2: Using the QMWD Goal Framework

In this lesson you'll learn different goal setting strategies for short and long term achievement. You'll build confidence with mini-goals and challenges, accelerating your growth and experience faster than you imagined. Think of this as a way to create a map of where you want to go!

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - QMWD Goal Setting & Integration

⏰ Lesson 3: Transforming & Focusing Your Time

The most valuable asset you have is time. In this lesson you'll learn how to better understand and transform the time you have to focus on the "uphill work" that drives the most value. Instead of spinning your wheels you'll create the time for what matters most.

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - Time Tracking, Calendar Blocking, Attention Allocation

✅ Lesson 4: Mastering the To-Do List

In this lesson you'll learn how to master your to-do list and how to resist (even laugh) at the daily distractions of modern life. You'll see how each of the previous power-up lessons combine to help you align daily tasks with long-term goals and how to protect the time you need to thrive.

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - Task Management & Kit Assembly

☀️ Lesson 5: Heroic Habits

You start the second half of the program by applying a heroic habit framework to daily life. You'll see how to supercharge your weekly quests and quickly sidestep those productivity pitfalls with a few simple steps and systems. With habits it's not about how much you do, but how often you do it!

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - Habit Loops & Rewards of Routines

🗃️ Lesson 6: Build a Personal Knowledge Base

In this lesson you'll take a literal inventory of your current work, commitments, ideas, and notes. One of the most common struggles in personal productivity is accessing information and ideas that we already created! You'll learn how to use the PARA method (by Tiago Forte) to offload your "second brain" and never start from scratch again.

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - PARA Method, Personal Knowledge Base

📝 Lesson 7: Effective Note-Taking Systems

Note-taking is the most misunderstood practice of productive people. In this lesson you'll learn a simple system based on years of research and academic proof. When you implement and practice QUICK notes the problem of "how do I start with this project?" will vanish.

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - QUICK & Spark Notes, Creative Confidence

🧠 Lesson 8: An Unbreakable Productive Mindset

In this lesson we integrate all of the power-ups to help you see the entire map and understand what's needed of you to keep stacking productive weeks into an epic year!

Power-Ups & Experience Points (XP) - Creative Confidence, Kit Builder Mindset

🏗️ Summit Sessions: You're a Master Builder

In this special follow-up session you'll learn more about how to continue integrating and improving your personal productivity kit. We'll take specific examples from the community and assemble the productivity kit to make each week a victory.

♻️ Summit Sessions: The Cycle Begins Again... and that's a good thing

After a couple weeks we come to realize the cycle of challenge and improvement never ends... and that's a good thing. Without a new call to adventure, we grow stale. It's your nature to be called out of your comfort zone - but this time you have a new mindset and tool kit to meet the challenges of each day.

My confidence is soaring!

I joined the Power-Up right after I started a new job. It was a perfect opportunity for me to practice new skills and make a great first impression.

Now that I have work under control I finally have more free time to start focusing on things I want to do personally. My confidence is soaring!

By the end of this course

You'll have a particular set of (productivity) skills. Skills that make you a procrastination dragon's worst nightmare. Skills that you'll master in the next 6 weeks and beyond.
You'll plan and execute on a successful days and victorious weeks using GAP and WRAP frameworks.
You'll command your time and energy, understanding how to channel your most important work into your most productive hours of the day.
You'll master the essentials of productivity tools by understanding how they help you in the quest... while not making the tool a quest itself.
You'll understand distractions and even chuckle at their feeble attempts to throw you off the quest.
You'll bounce back from unexpected challenges and delays, quickly and confidently able to pivot your plans based on new information.
You'll build confidence through action and completing the heroic cycle of productivity hundreds of times.
Your personal productivity kit will be clear, well-organized, and quickly accessible to fight any procrastination dragon that pops up.
You'll access each of the heroic productivity archetypes and know how to call each one out as the goal or challenge presents itself.
You'll have strong connections with other productivity heroes who are excited and willing to support you in the journey to come!

Hi, my name is Matt 👋

I'm a father of three boys, a business owner, and for five years worked at fast growth startups. Before I practiced the simple path to productivity I had years of frustrating unproductive work weeks (and months, and years).

Sure I was getting things done and had a reputation of a being a "hard worker"... but I wasn't doing the important career-changing work or the creative output I knew I was capable of.

Everything changed for me when I cut my goals in half and simplified my planning and action routines. With the help of my own mentors, coworkers, and community I was able to identify how to better prioritize, plan, and perform in my work and life. I want that for you too!

Here are a few takeaways from Power-Up alumni...

What people are saying about the Power-Up 🔋

Jon Salem

I've purchased everything Matt's created - his style is both authentic and inspirational. There are a lot of people in the productivity space I follow, but I've really found him to be the one I pay the most attention to.

Ken Rice

The Power-Up concept is very actionable. I've taken lots of productivity courses that gave me concepts without a clear way to do the work. Matt's program helped me create a system that fits how I work!

Juli Thompson

I had a huge aha! moment in my life from the power-up. I was stressing about a project only to remember that I had everything that I needed in my notes! I was able to start right away and build a ton of momentum!

You've got questions, I've got answers

What is the course structure?

Productivity Power-Up is a live cohort focused course. That means we have a limited members for better engagement and LIVE calls. We also have a community forum on Circle and you can view lessons and replays on Podia.

What if I can't attend live?

Life happens! You’ll get the most out of the course and community by attending live, but replays, lessons, and assignments will be shared the same day as the live call so it’s easy to catch up.

What is the refund policy?

If after the first call you decide the Power-Up isn’t a fit then I’ll refund your payment. But since this is a live cohort we can’t extend refunds past that time.

If it’s truly a matter of cost then this program might not be for you. If it’s a matter of fit please use the chat button in the bottom right so I can help you figure that out. Please leave your email for follow-up.

Do I get to keep access to the course and community?

You will keep access to the course lessons and replays for as long as it's active. If I ever decide to shut it down (and I have no intention of doing that) you'll be able to download everything.

You’ll have access to the community until the next cohort begins

How will the Power-Up help me?

Two things - if you want direct feedback on how the power-up can apply to your work, hit reply and I’ll answer. Second - what you’ll learn in the power-up is applicable to any work, even at home!

Independent planning, time management, goal-setting, and execution are highly valued skills - and they'll only become more important in the coming years.

I signed up for an earlier cohort of the Power-Up, do I get a discount?

You do! Email me matt@mattragland.com and request your discount code. Thanks for coming back!