Know someone who's hard on themselves for not being "productive enough"?


In November, I launched what's probably the most innovative and powerful resource I've ever attempted to create.

It was also the most personal thing I've ever created, because I built it for people like me.

Motivation Lab is a coaching app designed around neuroscience and powered by AI, to help you stop fighting against your brain and work with your natural tendencies for getting stuff done.

To my delight, over the past few months, hundreds of people have been trying the app out, and the responses I'm getting are making me wish the tech for this had been available sooner. (It literally wasn't even possible until late last year.)

I was nervous (and still am, just a bit), because I can't control exactly what's happening within the app. It truly is personalized to each user's goals and personality, so training the AI bot extensively--and exclusively--on my content was key.

That right there is exactly why I made it.

If you've been following my emails/podcast for awhile, you know my story of how it took me years to realize I'm not lazy.

I spent years wondering why I couldn't just do the thing when everyone else seemed to manage fine. And, I spent many more years researching motivation and productivity, not just because I found it interesting, but because I needed answers for myself.

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My Finding Flow Solutions curriculum was born out of that research, and it's helped thousands of students learn how their brains actually work.

But I kept hearing from adults, "Where's the version for me?"

So Motivation Lab is that version.

Here's what it actually does (in plain terms):

When you open the app each day, you get a personalized set of support based on where you are right now. Not where you think you should be, not some idealized version of your most productive self. Where you actually are.

There are 30 different module pathways I created, everything from "Reset When Overwhelmed" to "Take Control of Your Phone Habits." The lessons are short (3-5 minutes), and they come in video, audio, and swipe-to-read formats for variety so your brain gets that novelty it craves.

The AI coaching piece is what makes it different from just watching a course and hoping you remember it. The AI has been trained on hundreds of pages of my content, so it sounds like me, uses my strategies, and gives you my approach.

But it also remembers your history, tracks your patterns, and meets you where you are on any given day.

You're never pressured to keep a streak. You can skip days. You can turn weekends off.

I made this 2 minute video for Motivation Lab to share my challenges / diagnoses (both as a student and adult) that have fueled my study of motivation over the years.

Can't view it above? Click here.

Why I'm telling you this now:

I know most of you are educators, and you can absolutely use Motivation Lab for yourself. But I also know that you have people in your life who aren't teachers, and this might be exactly what they need.

  • the college student who can't get off their phone
  • the family member who calls themselves lazy because they can't power through a to-do list
  • the friend with ADHD who's already using AI tools but needs something more structured
  • the person who's tried every planner and system and app and still feels like they're failing

Would you send the link to Motivation Lab their way?

You can try risk-free for 7 days. The regular price is $29 quarterly or $89/year, and you can get it 30% off as a thank you for being on my email list.

Thanks for reading, for supporting my work, and for being the kind of person who shares good things with people who need them. I couldn't do this without you.

Angela

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