Do you feel you're standing still while life rushes past? The quiet frustration of knowing you're capable of more?
You've read the books. Watched the videos. Made the promises. But nothing's changed.
It's hard to keep career, fitness, and personal connections progressing — or even just holding ground.
You know you're capable of more. You can feel it. But something's missing.
If you're tired of making plans that never happen and watching others race ahead while you stand still, you're in the right place.
Success & progress in life is not random. It's by design.
We help people who feel they’re not progressing in life achieve what matters most to them.
We do this by guiding your implementation of a Life Operating System called the Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults® Life OS that identifies your true priorities, aligns your life aspirations with daily actions, activates massive focus, breaks old habits, and builds growth feedback loops.
The Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults® Life OS is built in Notion, a platform ideal for this purpose because of its unique capabilities and flexibility to create your own personalized tools.
The PPV system is a software layer on top of the Notion platform that massively leverages Notion’s capabilities — together PPV & Notion create an unparalleled growth and performance system.
Notion Life Design is the course and membership that guides the implementation of your own PPV Life Operating system. If you're new to Notion, we also get you up and running with it as well.
Stop reacting to the world around you, perpetually bouncing all over.
Shape your own path and direct your actions toward it.
A proven system to guide you and hold you accountable
PPV® is the life optimization system built in Notion, designed to bring Focus & Alignment to your life.
Focus to ruthlessly zero in on what you need to do today. Alignment to ensure you're doing the right things on any given day, aligning your high level aspirations with what you are spending your time on.
And PPV incorporates a powerful Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system into your life and work — screening, capturing, organizing, optimizing the information you come across in your life, then resurfacing the most valuable knowledge at the right time and right place for you to take action.
Origin Story
PPV® is now rebuilt from the ground up — leveraging the new 2025 Notion building fundamentals
This program introduces the culmination of 6+ years of refinement of the PPV Life OS, shaped by working with thousands of users.
Notion has changed dramatically over the past year and a half. The most powerful foundational structures in Notion are very different now — yet nobody is talking about or building around these new Notion fundamentals.
The new Notion Life Design introduces PPV rebuilt from scratch to incorporate the massive changes that Notion now enables for 2025.
PPV launched the Notion Life Operating System category — it was the first such Notion system and introduced the term "Life OS". Still today, its breadth and depth of guided life-shaping have not been matched.
Now the new PPV system is re-inventing what a Life OS can do, while simplifying how it operates.
Ivan Zhao
CEO & Co-founder of Notion
This is our passion. We pour everything we have into this program and are dedicated to our members every step of the way.
NLD Masterclass & Community Learning
These elements are more powerful when learned & brought together in a cohesive system, rather than as isolated silos. Holistic integration is at the core of what we do.
Unique Tribe of Members
The most powerful aspect of the growth journey.
Many of our members have expressed that nowhere else in their lives do they have support to explore and share their excitement for personal growth and designing optimal lives for themselves.
Most people don't get it, this is an uncommon and exceptional thing to pursue.
It can be lonely without a tribe, and nothing drives consistency and success more than being surrounded by others with similar mindsets.
The peer-to-peer support and engagement have always been at the core of NLD, and for many the most powerful aspect of the growth journey. The self-selecting nature of this program filters for and cultivates the most growth-minded community of people we've ever seen together in one space.
Our members are a truly extraordinary collection of people all pursuing personal growth and intentional life enhancement — supporting each other and sharing experiences, insights, and encouragement.
Membership Access
Our Members & The Program
Over the past five years, we've guided more than 2,000 members to leaps in personal growth and life transformations – moving toward their life aspirations.
Their achievement is our track record. The PPV system and Life Design coaching work consistently for those who implement it – this isn't theory, it's proven practice.
Our community has grown organically. Our members are not attracted by advertising or SEO tactics — they've discovered us through our public content and found that our approach resonated.
They join because they're ready for the next level — a structured system to turn their life aspirations into reality.
We've designed this program for committed individuals who:
This program is not suitable for those who:
We provide the framework, guidance, accountability, and community support to maintain consistency in the actions that matter most. You'll learn to define your true life aspirations and execute with precision.
We're determined to facilitate your achievement. Your success is our success.
Akshay Kothari
COO & Co-Founder of Notion
Choose the path that suits you best.
Notion Life Design
Essential
For some, simple and minimal is more effective. Bring balance, focus, and alignment to your life.
Featuring the new simplified, minimalist version of the PPV life operating system. Live cohort and/or recorded sessions guiding implementation.
Ongoing training on customizing your Notion PPV system for your own personal needs.
Ongoing workshops and community membership around personal Life Design, Growth, and Performance Enhancement.
Notion Life Design
Pro
Featuring the new, comprehensive, advanced version of the PPV Life operating system.
Live cohort/recorded sessions guiding implementation of your PPV Pro system for personal and professional needs.
Ongoing workshops and community membership around personal Life Design, Growth, and Performance Enhancement.
PLUS membership and community in the NLD Professional Mastermind — with workshops and peer-support for entrepreneurs & ambitious career professionals.
Notion Life Design Essential
Identify your life aspirations and implement a simplified, streamlined life system to consistently move toward them.
Personal Life Design +
Simplified PPV Life OS
Kick-Off: Live Cohort
Jumpstart your personal life operating system with the live training cohort — or go at your own pace with premium edited recordings available after each live session.
The NLD Essential Cohort guides implementation of the minimalist, simplified PPV Essential System. Sometimes, light and minimal is the most powerful feature.
Ongoing Membership
Personal life enhancement community and live sessions with ongoing support for your system use and Notion PPV customization. Enhance your live practices with a like-minded peer group and expert coaching.
Cohort Sessions + Premium Lesson Recordings
Pre-Built Simplified "PPV Essential" System Template
A passionate Notion & Life Design Peer Community
Expert Coaching from August Bradley & Team on Notion Systems & Life Achievement
Live sessions on system customization & personal use cases
Comprehensive Notion Training
Dynamic, integrated Portal Platform to enhance learning & interaction.
Continually Updated
Notion Life Design Pro
Identify your life & business aspirations and implement a streamlined, comprehensive system to consistently move toward them.
Kick-Off: Live Cohort
Jumpstart your personal life operating system with the live training cohort — or go at your own pace with premium edited recordings available after each live session.
The NLD Pro Cohort guides implementation of the full comprehensive, advanced PPV Pro Life System. Despite its broad range of life and professional guidance, PPV Pro is streamlined and efficient in its structure — leveraging leading edge Notion system design.
Ongoing Membership
Personal life enhancement community and live sessions with ongoing support for your system use and Notion PPV customization. Enhance your life practices with a like-minded peer group and expert coaching.
Move aggressively toward your professional aspirations in the NLD Entrepreneur & Career Professional Mastermind. There is nothing like it for pursuing life and business ambitions.
Cohort Sessions + Premium Lesson Recordings
Pre-Built "PPV Pro" System Template
Live sessions on system customization & personal use cases
A passionate Notion, Life Design, and Professional Peer Community
Expert Coaching from August Bradley & Team on Notion Systems & Life Achievement.
Business Achievement Coaching & Mastermind Group for Entrepreneurs & Ambitious Professionals.
Comprehensive Notion Training
Dynamic, integrated Portal Platform to enhance learning & interaction.
Live Session Schedule
The kick-off cohorts will be a series of regularly scheduled live-event workshops through January and February, 2025 — they guide implementation of your Notion PPV life System.
Each week, we start with a training workshop on a section of the PPV Life System, followed later in the week by a live Q&A support session.
Those implementing the PPV Essential system will meet on Mondays at 10:00 am Pacific Time in January and February.
Those implementing the PPV Pro system will meet on Tuesdays at 10:00 am in January and February.
The live Q&A support sessions will be on Thursdays — at 9:00 am Pacific Time for the PPV Pro system, and at 10:30 am Pacific Time for the PPV Essential system.
The Membership Experience
After the initial cohort series, we'll roll into an ongoing membership and group coaching program around the practice of Life Design — massively leverage Notion systems and the PPV framework.
Two Big Bonuses
Both of these extras come with all NLD memberships (Essential & Pro).
FastTrack Notion Course & Membership
We recently launched the most efficient, effective, immersive program to learn Notion. A full course covering all of Notion's capabilities plus a peer community plus live Q&A sessions — all about mastering the Notion platform and staying on top of new features. Details Here
Life Fundamentals Mini-Course
This mini-course introduces the life principles and frameworks that NLD and PPV are built upon. Explore foundational concepts across Systems Thinking, Life Design Foundations, and Re-Wiring Your Brain. A perfect primer for your Life OS.
Michael Hyatt
New York Times Bestselling Author
NLD Essential
Initial 3 month program
2025 Pre-Built PPV Essential Life OS Template
Live Cohort Course & Recorded Training on Life OS + Life Design
Ongoing Workshops on System Customization & Life Design
An incredible Peer Community of Life Designers
Life Design Mastermind Group Coaching lead by August Bradley & Team
Comprehensive Notion Training
Continually Updated & Expanded
NLD Pro
$1,250 USD
Initial 3 month program
Then $25/month membership
(billed quarterly, cancel anytime)
2025 Pre-built PPV Pro Life OS Template
Live Cohort Course & Recorded Training on Life OS + Life Design + enhanced Business/Professional Systems
Ongoing Workshops on System Customization, Life Design & Business/Professional Performance Systems
Peer Community of Life Designers + High Performance Professionals & Entrepreneurs
Life & Business Mastermind Group Coaching lead by August Bradley & Team
Comprehensive Notion Training
Returning Later This Year
"August and Jane's Life Design program gives you the ability to build the life you want. There are two elements to this — the software and the philosophy.
For the software, Notion serves as the backbone and like every other part of the course, August and Jane do an exceptional job here. They provides an inter-galactic template that you customize. You use the software to run your life.
August and Jane have clearly spent a lot of time thinking about the life they wants to live, what matters, and why. And they share all that thinking to help you do the same. They talk about sleep, health, mindset, relationships, how you want to approach the world, and how you want to live in the world — you can consume and think about at your own pace.
As you make conscious choices about how you want to structure a part of your life, the software is there to support you in your efforts."
Shripriya Mahesh
Venture Capital, Founding Partner
A unified system for personal & professional life.
Customize to make the system your own.
A viable long term solution.
With support & motivation to continue on an evolving journey.
I have tried many productivity systems in the past and this one incorporates ease of use, customization and functionality in a way that makes it a viable long term solution.
The PPV training and Life Design system provides a way for you to stay on track with whatever projects and goals you have, personal or business. I have been using the system to track daily routines as well as big projects.
However, the best part of this program is the community. The PPV community members provide support and motivation to continue on this ever evolving journey of productivity and accomplishment.
Rochelle Allison
Real Estate Coach
When members join our community, they don't just get access to a digital product. They step into a living, breathing ecosystem of growth. You'll shape your PPV implementation into something uniquely yours, supported by others on the same journey.
The new version of the program takes extensive feedback about what works and triples down on the best of it. The result is a next-level life enhancement experience with ongoing support, unlike anything else.
The PPV System has revolutionised my productivity, planning and thinking. It is a dream system. I have read over 100 non-fiction books and this system seems to cover them all.
There are not many competitive advantages left in the world but the PPV System is one of them. I feel in control and powerful using this system.
The self paced videos are so so well explained and the live sessions are so helpful. I cannot find any faults with this course and would recommend it to everyone. Dive in, commit and your life will change.
Hilan Shah
Media & Content Creator
A competitive advantage that makes you feel powerful and in control.
Commit and see the change.
A core part of daily life.
Much-needed structural understanding.
Value far beyond the template.
Notion Life Design is a different kind of program.
To help internalize lasting growth, we provide a well-integrated mix of:
Live Cohort or
Self-paced
Life OS rebuilt with leading Notion Functionality
Ongoing Group Coaching Mastermind
24/7 Community Think Tank & Support
This course has helped me more than I could have ever imagined. Before taking it I was meandering around hoping to make progress. Easily getting distracted by menial tasks that weren't pushing the ball forward.
Now I know exactly what my priorities are and have actionable tasks to achieve my biggest goals. Best investment I've made this year.
Gary Vaughan
Business Owner
From distracted, meandering, hoping—
To focused, determined, achieving.
Everything connected and easy to retrieve.
Change your approach to life and work.
The PPV system combined with the power and flexibility of Notion is changing how I live my life and complete my work day to day. Knowing that everything has a place and it's all in ONE place where I can easily find it again and link it to the work I am doing... it's almost magical.
August's class makes the system crystal clear and you will leave not just with an understanding of the system, but with solid knowledge of how that system will work for you specifically.
Elizabeth Caran
Agency Owner, Outlander Travel
Why I created this program
This is not just an online course to me, it’s a deeply personal undertaking.
This is an approach to life. It's how I built a strong business, and then when it collapsed how I built it back up again. It’s the approach that got me through a month of surgeries from a debilitating health crisis to the point where I emerged from the hospital with caregivers shocked at my recovery. Initially unable to walk, it powered me through a year of physical rehabilitation — reclaiming my life, my career, my happiness.
Then it directly led me to the activities and behaviors where I met the most important person of my life (my wife) and enabled me to build a family while pursuing a rewarding career.
Stories can be told in many ways. The methods and processes of the PPV system and what I share about life in this program is my story. You don’t learn about a person by what they say, but rather by what they do. This approach to life defines and shapes what you do — and keeps it in accordance with what you value and what you want to become.
I am a business consultant, a performance coach, and a designer of life and workflow processes — a Performance Systems Architect. But the only reason I can be good at those things is because I’m also a loving family member, a caring friend, an engaged community and workplace participant with an open and curious mind.
It also helps to be passionate about learning and sharing. Our professional skills and qualification do not come from industry or societal credentials, but rather by living a full life in which we are deeply engaged with our most important priorities. Then we pass on the best of ourselves in a form from which others can benefit.
That’s why I’m creating this course — it's the most powerful vessel I can envision to share what I have learned. This program takes decades of life learning and combines it with leading technologies (most notably Notion and our learning platforms).
I hope you will join us. I’m excited about the possibility of diving into this journey with you!
August Bradley