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2025-12-11

Eliminate the Zero-Value Activities

By The Eat That Frog Team

Tracy's 'E' in ABCDE stands for eliminate: tasks that made sense once, or never did, and now merely consume time out of habit.

Ask of each recurring activity: what would happen if I simply stopped? Often the honest answer is 'nothing,' which is your permission to quit it.

Every zero-value task you kill returns time and attention to the frogs that actually matter.

Put this into practice, start free

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