Making Time Management Work for You: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #10

Most of us struggle with time management. It's normal. But, things need to get done both at work and in your personal life. So, in this episode of Crash Course Business, Evelyn gives us all some ways to structure our checklist and make sure we get our work done while still not forgetting to take care of ourselves.
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[@bilboswaggins7629]

Here I am, procrastinating watching a video about how to not procrastinate..

[@LearnTwiwithEfiaBAE]

Same here but your comment made me realize I need to stop, work and come back to this video when I take a break :).

[@lincolnhawthorne7360]

I should be working. But this video will help me.

[@AngelRodriguez-rm3wn]

Sounds a lot like me :)

[@pewdiepiep1453]

bilboswaggins76 make a video on chirstion mythology

[@windywendi]

Boy, you are basically a mirror of me..

[@RangerRuby]

I love how well-put-together all these Crash Course videos are!

[@lincolnhawthorne7360]

I should be working, but I need to learn how to manage my time better.

[@Haseo123653]

Better now then later, at least you'll know how to work faster later.

[@lincolnhawthorne7360]

Haha It's a joke. I clean an elementary school by myself for a living (be jealous... I'm not either.) But thank you for helping (not being sarcastic. Wild I know haha)

[@najlaela4157]

It s literally 3:15 am when I am watching this vid 😌

[@miapjo12]

3:35 a.m. for me

[@harrison6082]

Last semester I thought my problem was me not having good enough time management. Turns out I was way over stretching myself too thin. For about 2 months straight I on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I went to bed at 2am that night and got up at 6am. I lived on energy drinks. The thought of having one now kind of grosses me out. (It's easier to admit to yourself and on your ego that you aren't stretched too thin, instead you simply aren't managing your time effectively enough.)

[@suncib3913]

"Dont do multitasking" But i watch it while folding origami paper 😂😂

[@jonjuul4276]

i know that this is crash course and it is supposed to be fast but I just love the calm way in which she speaks. Great vid!

[@christinec28]

I'm a morning person, but the chipperness is a MYTH lol. I work best in morning, mentally, but that doesn't mean I like it ;)

[@lewisgorrod3763]

Amen to that!

[@idndyzgaming]

Here I am, watching video about time management with D-1 of my project looming.

[@CoffeeMugTwentyFive]

I've been a fan of Evelyn since the Veda-days. good to see her stepping up! further, farther! congrats on the success!

[@i_smoke_ghosts]

yea dude she pretty cool ay

[@KeepingItKevin]

Loved hearing how to say no! And be polite. Great video

[@Adaginy]

App recommendations: Habitica (also a website) and Forest. Habitica - list your chores and tasks and such, check them off, level up your avatar, defeat monsters. Forest - set a timer, plant a virtual tree, leave your phone alone (or only use whitelisted apps) or the tree dies. As for stuff that isn't your job, though, gotta talk a bit about training your teammates: If you are always the one who does the thing even though it's *their* job, eventually it becomes *your* job, and they think that it's their job to hand you half-finished work. If they ASK -- "hey, we're swamped, can you do the thing" -- that's fine, that's acknowledging it's their job. But if they're handing you half-done work and expecting you to roll with it, Nope Nope Nope. Hand that back. "This isn't ready for me yet, please let me know when you've finished XYZ."

[@kfcchicken1610]

So i like a strict scedule down to the minute but im a night owl. Im in bed till 10am and productive most around 5-6pm then i go to bed a 3am

[@prathushaayoganathan9442]

Can you make a video on how to manage time, stress and life when you have learning disabilities like ADHD/ADD or psychological disorders like depression, anxiety etc..

[@fangirlfortheages5940]

This is so perfect for theatre. Directors can take so much from this. Making your team stronger and playing to their strengths. I’d just like a video on how to pick that team and motivate people.

[@LearnTwiwithEfiaBAE]

Happy to see Evelyn on this channel😊.

[@agactual2]

I like the flexible and non judgmental approach to these videos. Everything I have been told by other sources always acts like one way of doing things is the only way of doing it, which makes things stressful and exhausting. This "find your style and make it work for you" is a breath of fresh air. I don't want to be a type A personality workaholic that wakes up at 4:00am and is going at full speed 18 hours per day. That is what I have always been told is the key to success and now I know why it never worked for me.

[@malllllll]

this video is literally a sign to me. I always say that time management is my weakness

[@nyadubead9736]

Internet cousin!

[@kyliesmith2004]

Thank you so much! I struggle a lot with time management. I have four honors classes on my plate, a piano recital coming up, and a close friend of mine who is having a birthday tomorrow (I'm making her present now). I'll be sure to follow this advice!

[@carsonking605]

85% good advice

[@indianstudywithme8255]

Time management is so much important 😊 we always underestimate it

[@jorellortega]

Multi tasking is real. You said it best in your intro find what works best for you everything else I agree

[@afuantics175]

Evelyn!! Yesss chase the bag😭😭❤️❤️

[@EmilyaVoskanyan]

Thank you...I like this. And time management is really great topic.

[@ohmyvaleriee]

Well, I watched it and now am more motivated. Thanks ❤️

[@ampz1466]

Evelyn!! I love this woman. Killing it on the internets

[@mabymabynot]

Oh my goodness im so happy evelyn is on herrree!

[@emilyjenson8158]

Hye so this was super awesome and really helpful! I am in my last semester in college, with CAP stones and a million other projects due so thanks for the help. Keep up the good work!!!

[@molliemk3477]

Yes,, pls make more of these series. I’m struggling lol

[@leolaw624]

I like the way she talks. So smooth and it's easy to understand

[@rizzplayz4529]

7:26 lol nice to see El (11) on Crash Course

[@ZacharyLaid]

If you can't manage time, how do you expect to manage a business.

[@charleneraymond4036]

When I tell you I looked at the thumbnail then looked at the channel name back and forth a couple times out of sheer confusion 😅 Like, why is Evelyn's face... on a Crash Course video??

[@khrisnakhristian5419]

please continue this series! i love the host

[@nantukoprime]

Luckily, more places are going to Agile so someone is going to create To Do lists with you in it anyways. Still, a To Do list never hurt but it can get out of control if you start overplanning thing. A time tracker app is going to scare you, and you have a right to be afraid. I don't think I have met a single person who was initially happy with their time tracking, so make sure you do some research on realistic time schedules before you start doing it. You are still not going to like the results, but hopefully you won't feel like you waste all your time everywhere.

[@alphameetpatel]

Good.

[@issytobizzy395]

anyone both | I wake up early in the morning to finish work and procrastinate all day then at midnight i write an 800-word speech for the next day

[@FratorityRow]

This is great - super helpful! Regarding what you said about underestimating how long something will take, this has been happening a lot to me lately in my new job. In part, it’s because I feel like I don’t always have a frame of reference of how long something will take me (because it’s new or because my boss/peers think of it differently/in a certain way compared to me because I have a very different background and way of thinking) AND because my boss is often very vague about expectations and timelines (she doesn’t suggest gradual deadlines, but rather a lot all at once because EVERYTHING is urgent to her, no matter how I try to frame it to her). Do you have any tips? I feel like I’m losing my mind, or maybe I’m lazy/not as good as the rest of the team - it’s hard to feel like I’m always lagging behind with no light at the end of the tunnel.

[@jo-vf8jx]

FratorityRow have you tried talking to your boss/supervisor about giving you an expected time line? Maybe frame your question in a way of saying hey It’d helpful to me at complete said tasks and do my job more efficiently if I knew how long i have on xyz? Or something along that. I’m not really sure what to tell you honestly, but I hope things get better 😊

[@JulieHerrick]

I always struggled with the advice to delegate. Early in my career, I was basically the bottom of the totem pole within my small nonprofit organization. Everyone delegated to me, but there was nobody for me to delegate to. Occasionally we had short-term volunteers, but most of the time, delegating to them involved so much training on our various systems that it was easier to do the thing myself. Years later, I'm finally in a position where I work at a University, and I just hired my first student worker to whom I can delegate. I know the time I invest in training her will be worthwhile because she's going to stick around long enough to get independent at her tasks. It's really great, but it's taken me a while to get here.

[@crystalward1444]

This has good points, but if you do work for government a sudden request can quickly become the top priority, especially in emergency situations. It's taxpayers' money, unlike the private sector.

[@_aidid]

This video should not only be included in Business Soft Skill, but should be in general.

[@mademoisellelinconnue1189]

Thank you for this video😊

[@joewilson3393]

You will never find the time, you must always make the time.

[@alicedubois1348]

This is what should have been taught when I was in school...

[@fryingpan552]

I think it's one of those skills they expect you to just figure out on your own to make it through school, but most of us just find the minimum coping skills to survive

[@yanzhucardenas4031]

Did anyone else notice Eleven from stranger things being the waffle friend? Haha

[@meowth900]

I gotta work on it. It hard man.

[@Rabbeck]

No way, I procrastinated doing this video and it just so happens to be about procrastination

[@FitRav]

Thank you

[@abderrafimansari4643]

Thanks professor ! Super lesson .

[@DeadAccount43_]

Thank you!

[@raj-kumar1674]

How to schedule feelings with time management ?

[@junesept234]

This video helps me so much. The solutions to problem was described neatly. I will remember all of your advice.

[@mirellaquiroga6316]

Here I go listing on how to better manage my time listening to managing my time.

[@beastbuilder]

very very cool, positive and no nonsense video about Time management - human friendly lol

[@floralirony]

Great episode! Also animation at 8:00 is my jam

[@innanaai1451]

I'm saving this video so I can watch later..

[@malllllll]

I love the Steve Harvey shade

[@isisribeiroaesthetics3667]

when she talked about gym I looked at my belly and my brain was like "yes you need to go but don't do it"

[@brynwhitehead1731]

Quaint

[@the_number_one]

You are a great Internet mom :)

[@Nieosoba]

Thanks for the video! I want to believe that there is nothing wrong with getting up at 10 and working until 3 but is it true? I think that brain activity and functionality is much better in the morning and early afternoon and later, of course, you can do stuff but is much less efficient. Is it true or just my belief?

[@franciscomilitao8947]

I love Evelyn!

[@refilwejas3351]

Am watching this at 2 in South Africa

[@BrendenPragasam]

As an industrial designer, we often are forced to stay up for days on end due to the fact we're not taught how to manage time! Thanks for the tips

[@bitemefox9102]

Thank you for making us night owls not look bad!

[@komaibra7988]

seems like good class

[@FroehligGirlz]

Yay for sleep!!! It's about time we pushed back on people who aren't clued in to the self-abuse sleep deprivation is. It's not a lack of discipline to sleep long enough in the morning if you're productive or health-driven in the evenings. And let's abolish that bi-annual time change, shall we?

[@leghtim1]

crash course Architecture!!!!

[@NickCuttonaro]

Procrastinating is how I got here to this video 😂 Maybe I'll stop procrastinating now after watching this... maybe not.. we'll see😂

[@78chaser]

That my girl Evelyn 👏👏👏👏

[@dvklaveren]

Having my own business; don't listen to people who say *they* would do everything themselves. Delegate what you can afford to and if you can't afford to, consider why. Some things can't be delegated, because you can't give away certain decision-making tasks, but you can for most things. EDIT: These thoughts are for an app development company. There's a lot of technical tasks that are easy to underestimate. Here's two rules of thumb I use; 1). If you can do a non-repeating task now and in 5 minutes, do it now and don't put it on a checklist. By non-repeating, I mean, 'a task of a kind that you'll only do once today'. So, if you have only 1 e-mail to reply to with one or two sentences, do it now. If you have two of those emails, you're probably going to take more time, so put it on the checklist. 2). Everything you have to do, say, ~30 times is worth time and money to automate and systematize. Standard email replies, for example. I bought a €500 scanner that scans up to 50 receipts in 100 seconds and recognizes cost amounts, dates, vendors and buyers. I did that, because I have a ton of tiny expenses that I want tax returns for. It paid for itself the next day. That was a whole year of accounting I processed.

[@lou8391]

@CrashCourse Does listening to something on the side while studying, count as multi tasking?

[@willisdagrillis]

Depends what you’re listening to and whether you think you can focus on your task without being distracted. Listening to music might be okay but a podcast might take too much of your attention.

[@joshualyttle9059]

whats the S.M.A.R.T thing

[@Harpreet_62]

Please please do a series on mathematics.

[@niko-ni6ps]

watching video about time management while actually u have to do some deadlines? good job

[@jjona910871]

9:47

[@starboyar]

Enjoyed this video

[@macbuff81]

I'm a night owl and HATE that morning larks feel they are somehow better than us. That one must become like them in order for us to be successful. It's infuriating and I've decided to stop explaining myself for being a night owl. I can get early in the morning every once in a while and if there's a good reason. However, I've learned the hard way that getting up early every morning will make me physically and emotionally sick. Skipping meals is another one that I have decided to not allow. Eating well and in peace is not a luxury. It is a necessity

[@niko-ni6ps]

wait, why the girl with blue jacket got her nose bleeding? 7:46

[@caramujov2]

That's 11 from Stranger Things

[@lyndao7356]

Excellent!

[@BreeDarcel]

Evelyn being on this show makes me so happyyyyy! Yay 💕

[@Gamerextra1029]

Weird. Hitting the gym when I have too much on my plate is exactly how I overwhelm and push my limits. I mean, if you're the kind of person that can't sleep and wants to jog until they suffocate, then sure, working out can be hard. But as long as you're on top of your bodily needs, you can dive in and out of the gym without too much fuss.

[@chamelor]

WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU DO ONE ON HISTORY OF MUSIC.

[@larrygreer3036]

This is amazing

[@GulzarHussain-eu9bm]

Good

[@avi12]

Who else is watching this time management video at 12AM?

[@cameronday9926]

It's 7 am

[@Escoveeche]

5 pm

[@gabby_donz]

welp..back to my afternoon nap

[@Caterfree10]

No themed thumbnail? :0

[@jaymaurehaywood6031]

EVELYN

[@kevinfalcon4488]

I'll disagree about multi tasking being a myth. It's real. You just have to know how many things you can juggle efficiently.

[@ZoeAlleyne]

Who was on the phone with 11? Was that a reference I didn't get?

[@marlenanichole]

Evelyn my internet cousin is on crash course!! :-)

[@FroehligGirlz]

I have to be on my game for email, and even conversations. I get misinterpreted pretty regularly. That's super problematic.

[@Hlayne1979]

Good video, but what was with the nosebleed in the thought bubble?

[@Ceduria]

It's a reference to the tv show "Stranger Things"

[@Hlayne1979]

@@Ceduria ah. Thanks.

[@pewdiepiep1453]

make on christion mythulogy

[@benv7933]

Who's watching for procrastination?

[@mehere1482]

!!!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

[@Babyshoes777]

Evelyn!!!

[@mechailreydon3784]

Trust me she’s not kidding when she says trying to do too much work leads to fewer work getting done.. and a lot of time wasted 😥