I have to confess that I have a problem with time. I am often a few minutes :
late for social appointments--a carry-over from growing up in another country where it was the norm to come half-an-hour to even an hour late for dinner and other social events. I also tend to put things off for later.
Anyway, I thought I could benefit from reading about "time management" so I started reading "First Things First" this spring. I know, I know, I'm a decade or so late--did I tell you about my lateness problem?--but that's where a lot of 90's buzzwords probably came from: personal mission statement, win-win, vision, paradigm, empowerment, etc.
I find the book too serious and it seems that I will have to work hard, and so I've postponed "enriching" myself for now. I couldn't get over the effort I'd have to expend to think of my mission and it seems like it would be so static, set in stone and that I would be bound by the mission. There were some good parts, though, about the importance of distinguishing between urgency and importance, etc.
Anyway, the article brewer linked seems shallow in comparison, especially the part about being kind in a time-effective manner, confining kindness to acts that require little time. Maybe time and how we use it relates to the "big picture" of our psychological make-up and underlying philosophy of living that any half-baked article like this just won't do.
I haven't given up entirely, though. I've started on "Getting Things Done" which has a lighter tone than "First Things First."