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Weirdly Effective Time Management Tips & Best Practices!
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5(84 ratings)
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Weirdly Effective Time Management Tips & Best Practices!

Dramatically improve your time management and productivity with very practical and very unusual ideas you can use today!
Role Play
Created bySteve Ballinger, MBA
Last updated 2/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Crazy, weird, maybe unusual, time management tips.
  • Practical best practices you can implement immediately to improve your productivity.
  • All tips are easy to implement but some may take some courage to actually do it.
  • Control your time better so you can focus on what is most important to you in both work and your personal life.

Course content

2 sections • 35 lectures • 3h 6m total length

  • Life Is Too Short To Not Drink Good Beer1:54
  • #1 Way To Reduce New Emails In Your Inbox2:47
  • Maybe #1 Most Crazy: Your Outgoing Voicemail Message7:46
  • Should I Answer That Phone Call?2:29
  • Block Out That Time For Real3:04
  • Business Writing: Keep It Short Benefits1:58
  • Perfection Is...Stupid...Good...Somewhere In Between4:19
  • The One Most Important Task To Do Everyday3:01
  • Eat That Frog (Yummy)3:21
  • The 80/20 Rule Is So 1995...Do This Instead2:49
  • Just Say No3:54
  • Give Your Work To Others...Even Your Boss2:06
  • EXTRA: Managing Up8:05

    Discover five practical tips to manage up: be proactive with problems and solutions, align with your manager's goals, respect their time, speak up when needed, and see the bigger picture.

  • EXTRA: Delegation Tips5:43
  • -Delegate a task to a peer who does not report to you-
  • Batching Is Like Bathing...You Feel Great When Done4:24
  • No Multi-Tasking Except...3:13
  • Sorry, Cannot Make That Meeting4:37
  • Make Meetings You Hold Super Fast & Productive2:38
  • No PowerPoints...No Problem!6:29
  • Gracefully Managing Off Topic People At A Meeting6:52
  • Triage Your Tasks. Some Live Some Do Not.1:54

    Triage your tasks by urgency and importance, balancing immediate needs with important future work, delegating or dropping what’s not essential, and noting the urgent-important matrix coming up.

  • Focus On Important...But Not Urgent Tasks4:30
  • Easy Time Tricks10:59
  • Love The Delete Key2:12
  • "Inbox Zero" -Punishment Free Zone-2:25
  • How Many Calendars Should You Have2:12
  • Importance Of A Preferred Communication Method4:04
  • Reduce Mind Overload With Simplified Decision Making5:12
  • I am Feeling Sleepy...Time For A Power Nap3:18

    Take a short nap to boost productivity and reduce stress; a 20–60 minute window works for refreshing energy.

  • Top 4 Action Steps + Extra Step2:53

Requirements

  • No prerequisites other than a desire to learn and use practical time management tips, even if some are a little odd.

Description

You may be just one great idea or tip away from making a big difference in your productivity and improving your time management for the things you want to do. Maybe just one unusual idea away?

I use every technique in this course and rest assured, there will be some you will think that is impossible for you to do. That may be but you don't need to implement all of them...just the ones that make a difference in your life. Hint, the more you do adopt the bigger the difference.

Using every technique in this course I was able to be more effective in my full-time work as a Senior Vice President and grow my side-gig on Udemy to the point where I could quit my full-time job. Now I have more time than ever and the best practices in this time management course is something I rely on heavily.

Goal of the course is to give you some practical ideas you can implement immediately, even if some are a little scary.

The best practices cover many areas including:

  • Email

  • Meetings

  • Working with others

  • Working with your boss

  • Phone conversations

  • ...and more!

Some of the lessons include:

  • Maybe #1 Most Crazy: Your Outgoing Voicemail Message

  • Short Emails Save You In Many Ways

  • #1 Way To Reduce New Emails In Your Inbox

  • The One Most Important Task To Do Everyday

  • Eat That Frog (Yummy)

  • The 80/20 Rule Is So 1980...Do This Instead

  • Batching Is Like Bathing...You Feel Great When Done

  • No Multi-Tasking Except...

  • No "Email At Zero" -Punishment Free Zone

  • I am Feeling Sleepy...Time For A Power Nap

  • ...and more!

Again, I use every technique in this course and rest assured, there will be some you will think that is impossible for you to do...but may be worth a try.

My hope is that you can enjoy the tremendous reduction of stress and focus on what is most important to you either at work or in your personal life and if even one smart tip from this time management course and productivity course helps then that would be fantastic.

Next step, just click the button to enroll and I hop to see you in your first lesson.

-Steve Ballinger

Who this course is for:

  • If you feel your life is a little chaotic...then this course is for you.
  • Want to learn new ideas beyond the standard time management tips.
  • Like the idea that even a small change in your behavior can lead to big results.
  • Maybe have everything under control and want to get even better to free up even more time.

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