Temporal Discounting
"There's a human tendency to under- or over-estimate the value of a reward based on its temporal proximity [how soon we'll get a payoff for the effort]."
Want Never Goes Away
"The problem isn't that you are a bad manager of your time, you are a bad tactician in the war inside your brain."
~ David McRaney
The Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo is a time management method that reminds me of some of the basic principles behind mindfulness meditation: break things down into smaller more manageable units and focus primarily on one thing for a specific interval of time to develop concentration.