The three apps
One for tasks, one for notes, one for habits. None of them talks to the others, and you don’t open any of them every day.
Sound familiar?
The March notebook
You started a journal full of enthusiasm. It lasted nineteen days. It’s still in the drawer, half the pages blank.
Phone first
The first thing you see every morning is other people’s messages. By nine, the day has been decided, and not by you.
The blank night
You go to bed tired and couldn’t say what you did for the things that really matter to you. Tomorrow, the same.
The January list
You wrote down your goals for the year. By February you couldn’t remember where you’d put them.
The Sunday that slips away
Monday comes and you start the way you always do: putting out fires, answering whatever comes in, letting the week decide.
You don’t lack discipline. You lack a place to command from.
Why the Stoics
One of the most widely read books of philosophy in history was written, in large part, in army camps. Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, spent his last years on the Danube frontier, at war. At night he wrote for himself, and he noted where: “among the Quadi,” “at Carnuntum.” He wasn’t writing to publish. He was writing to put himself in order: what was up to him, how he would treat the difficult people of the next day, where he had fallen short.
Seneca ended every day with an examination: once the lamp was out, he went over his actions and his words, hiding nothing from himself. And he warned his friend Lucilius against scattering himself:
Epictetus taught his students the first rule of the whole system: “Some things are up to us, and some are not” (Enchiridion, 1).
A fixed place, reviewed at fixed times, to separate what is up to you and move forward on that. That’s a headquarters.
“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”
Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 2, 2
What Headquarters Is
A complete system for putting your life in order from a single dashboard, with five rooms and three fixed hours.
- Room I · Journal. Five questions in the morning, before your phone: what is up to you, the priority of the day, what could go wrong and how you’ll respond, the virtue of the day and one line of gratitude. Four at night, before bed: what you did well, where you fell short, what you’ll do differently and whether you got the priority done. And a score for the day.
- Room II · Habits. Between three and six, with their streaks and your percentage.
- Room III · Goals. Between one and five, with a starting number, a target number, a date and the next step that is up to you. The system tells you whether you’re on pace or behind.
- Room IV · Orders. The day’s tasks with priority A, B or C. No more than three A’s.
- Room V · The Sunday Council. Thirty minutes in six steps to close the week and put the next one in order.
Morning, five minutes. Evening, five minutes. Sunday, thirty.
Use it however you prefer: in Notion, imported into your account with a step-by-step guide, or in Excel or Google Sheets, with a spreadsheet that calculates your streaks, your percentages and your progress on each goal.
Everything you get
Headquarters isn’t a lone PDF: it’s a 9-piece kit, ready to download.
- I
The Notion template
A ZIP ready to import: home page, five databases with examples, the manual on one page, and the journal and Sunday templates.
- II
The Notion Import Guide
8 pages with simulated screenshots: import, property types, formulas, linking orders to goals, views and the daily page that creates itself.
- III
The Headquarters spreadsheet
Excel and Google Sheets
A dashboard that updates itself, the journal, habits with streaks, goals with progress and pace status, orders, a weekly review and charts. With a filled-in example file.
- IV
The field manual
The complete method, with filled-in examples of a morning, an evening, three goals and a Sunday.
- V
Quick Start
2 pages
Your headquarters up and running this week.
- VI
Printable sheets
5 pages
For pencil and paper.
- VII
Pocket cards and poster
The morning, the evening, the virtues, the orders, Sunday, when you slip, and the “A General Doesn’t Improvise” poster.
- VIII
5 phone wallpapers
One idea from headquarters every time you pick up your phone.
- IX
Commitment sheet and certificate
You sign on day zero; you earn it with thirty days and four Sunday councils.
Everything arrives as downloadable files, in order, for your phone, your computer or on paper.
How it works
Three steps. The first one, today.
I
Today: choose your format
You open the Quick Start and choose Notion or the tracker for Excel and Google Sheets. Then you sign your commitment.
II
The setup, just once
Thirty minutes: your start date, three to six habits, your goals with their numbers and the missions for your first week.
III
Ten minutes a day
Five questions in the morning, four at night and the X’s for your habits. Every Sunday, the council.
Who it’s for, and who it isn’t
It’s for you if…
- The man who feels he’s running behind his own life, with other people deciding his day.
- The man who has started journals, lists and apps and abandoned them within weeks.
- The man who wants one place for his day, his habits, his goals and his week.
- The man who’s willing to give it ten minutes a day and thirty on Sunday.
It’s not for you if…
- The man looking for an app to do the work for him: headquarters puts you in order, but the decisions are yours.
- The man who wants to spend hours decorating a system instead of using it.
- The man who expects guaranteed results without reviewing anything: what isn’t reviewed repeats itself.
Your copy
One payment. You download it today and it’s yours.
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Headquarters · the complete kit
- The Notion template
- The Notion Import Guide
- The Headquarters spreadsheet
- The field manual
- Quick Start
- Printable sheets
- Pocket cards and poster
- 5 phone wallpapers
- Commitment sheet and certificate
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Everything is digital and you download it from the Hotmart download email. The texts and printable sheets come as PDFs; the tracker is an Excel file (.xlsx) that also opens in Google Sheets; the phone wallpapers are high-resolution PNG images.
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Yes. The PDFs read well on any phone, and the tracker works in the free Google Sheets or Excel apps. The wallpapers are sized exactly for your phone.
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Thirty minutes once for the setup. After that, ten minutes a day and thirty every Sunday.
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Marcus Aurelius had an empire at war, and he still went back to his notebook every night to put his life in order. You have a job, a family, a body, money and a character to govern.
One fixed place. Three fixed hours. First, what is up to you. A general doesn’t improvise.
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