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Level 2 — Your First Daily Ritual

Good morning.

You did it yesterday — opened Ubuntu, typed claude, said "hi" to your Chief of Staff for the first time. Today is the real thing. Your first 5-minute daily ritual.

This is the smallest version of the habit. You'll do this same thing every weekday morning for the next 30 days. After 30 days, you'll have killed ~30 small annoying things and your life will be perceptibly lighter. That's not a metaphor.

What you'll do (5 minutes, max)

Step 1 — Open your Chief of Staff:

  1. Open the Start menu → click Ubuntu.
  2. In the terminal that opens, type claude and hit Enter.
  3. Wait for the friendly welcome.

Step 2 — Paste this prompt:

Copy this whole block (highlight it, Ctrl+C) and paste it into Claude. Hit Enter:

You're my Chief of Staff. This is my first daily ritual ever, and I
want to learn the habit by doing one tiny thing well today.

Goal: by the end of this conversation I will have killed ONE small,
annoying thing in my life. "Killed" = done, deleted, scheduled,
delegated, or templated. Not "planned to fix" — actually gone.

Constraints:
- It has to be doable in under 15 minutes.
- It has to be something I can finish RIGHT NOW with my laptop or
  phone in front of me.
- It should be small. A closet shelf, a recurring charge I forgot
  about, an email I've been avoiding, one promise I forgot to keep.
  NOT "lose 20 pounds" or "fix my career."
- If you don't know me yet, ask me ONE question to find a good
  candidate. Just one.

End state: I tell you "done" and you respond with one line of
encouragement plus "see you tomorrow morning." That's it. No new
tasks. No follow-up advice. End on the win.

Start by asking me the one question.

Step 3 — Answer the question. Be honest. The answer can be short.

Step 4 — Do the thing. Your Chief of Staff will suggest something tiny and walk you through it. Do it. Right now. Don't bookmark it for later — that's how kaizens die.

Step 5 — Tell it "done." Receive your one-line attaboy. Close the window.

Step 6 — Drink your coffee. You're done for the day.

A note on what to expect

Day 1 (today), your Chief of Staff doesn't know you yet. The first question it asks might be broad — "what's been nagging at you lately?" or "what's a small thing you've been avoiding?" Answer honestly.

The first kaizen might be embarrassingly small. Good. That's the point.

The magic doesn't happen on Day 1. It happens on Day 14 when you realize you haven't seen that thing in a week — because you killed it.

After you finish

Text Bob one line about what you killed. "Cancelled a $12/mo app I forgot about." "Cleared the junk drawer." Whatever it was. He's running the pilot — he wants to know.

That's the whole feedback loop. Took 5 minutes plus a text.

See you tomorrow.

— Bob

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