“Motivational roots” was an innovative training that brought together 25 youth workers and youth leaders from 5 countries to Estonia in order to improve their competences of time management in youth work. Time management in general is a very common topic and everyone hears and reads constantly about some tips in our daily life to become more efficient, to reach our goals, to manage to find time for ourselves, our interests and things that normally keep being forgotten. But it is really rare and rather challenging to find anything, what would advise about time management for the youth workers and how to improve the work in the NGOs as well as how to make the project management much more efficient and of a better quality. In our time, the skill of multitasking is one of the most controversial qualities. Doing several things at the same time, and even good, is it not a dream. But living in such a rhythm all the time, the energy goes much faster and this causes irritation, deterioration of health and life in general. People become dissatisfied with themselves, the feeling of belonging to something great and important goes away, and only vanity remains. Our training was designed for youth workers, who want to find harmony with their actions, learn to prioritize and distribute the most limited resource - time as efficiently as possible. Through the practical workshops, the participants learnt to prioritize according to their values, set micro and macro goals, better focus on priorities, find and replenish the necessary resources for their implementation and feel at the same time healthy. This will be useful like for the youth workers themselves, as well as they can transfer these competences afterwards to the young people they work with. From the exchange between the colleagues, as well as from more than 12 years of our experience of the work of Together Estonia, we see a series of commonly repeating mistakes of the youth workers about planning their time, whether it is in the office, during the project implementation or making the work plans of the NGO. A series of very useful time management tools and tricks stay unknown or simply misunderstood. With this training, we aimed to fill this gap and to help to the youth workers and youth leaders to break this barrier, to give them useful tools that they can directly implement after the training, raise their efficiency, not to be afraid of thinking big, make ambitious plans and projects, as well as to improve the quality of the work that they produce. We believe that this training was a real help for the personal development of these people, but also had an important impact on the partner organisations, efficiency of their work, as well as will brought to life new projects, some of which will be hopefully rather ambitious. The non-formal education and its principles were used and the methodology of the training was quite diverse: brainstormings, games, group discussions, plenary presentations, case studies and much more. We implemented directly the learned tools in the training implementation, so that to use the time during the training week the maximum way possible. We also presented the participants the Erasmus+ programme and motivated them to organise their own projects at local or international levels, as well as we encouraged them not to be afraid of dreaming on a large scale and to see the things globally. Very often it happens, that the youth workers do not dare to apply for some big long- term projects, as they have a fear that they will not cope with its coordination and that this project will take too much time. Through this time management training, they got the ready-to-use tools that also explained how to divide the big ambitious projects into smaller steps and how to plan the implementation the best way. Like this, the large scale would not frighten anymore and will make it also achievable and would help to avoid any mistakes, as the detailed planning is also the perfect way to ensure the best quality of the project. After the participants, come back home, they should act as multipliers of their newly acquired knowledge and experience.