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First Things First Ritual

A personal web ritual tool built around Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog — write down today's hardest task and its first bite, move through a 5-4-3-2-1 launch ritual, complete a body check-in after your focus round, and export the whole session as Markdown back to Obsidian.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • localStorage

Outcome: A single quiet loop from naming the frog to archiving the session — emphasising the first bite over finishing, with a body check-in built into the end of every round.

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First Things First Ritual started from a simple friction point: knowing you should do the hardest thing first, but still finding your mind and body resisting. The missing piece wasn't another to-do list — it was a short ritual that could actually carry you across the threshold.

The experience is a single linear flow: write down today's frog and the concrete first bite, optionally settle in with a five-minute meditation, then enter a cinematic 5-4-3-2-1 countdown that ends not with pressure but with a quiet reminder — the frog is chosen, the first bite is written, now just begin one round. Timer options split for real-world use: reach for your physical Pomodoro timer, or let the built-in 40-minute frog clock run.

When the bell rings, the focus isn't on logging completion — it's on checking in with the body first. Quick-tap chips lower the barrier to writing, and a few short prompts capture what actually moved and how you returned when you wanted to escape. The whole session compresses into a structured Markdown block, ready to paste straight into Obsidian. It pairs naturally with the Meditation Companion: meditation handles the settling before action, the frog ritual locks that energy into a first bite and one focused round.