From my own experience, i dearly wish i had been introduced to different methods for time management and budgeting when i was younger. As someone who's quite likely an undiagnosed case of ADHD, i can't recount how many times i've been told by teachers and professors, since the time i was 10, that i'd do wonderfully if i just -applied- myself (as if that was a substitute for explaining how to set yourself up a work space physically and psychologically).

Okay, so i'll grant Trev's point that even if i had been introduced to various ways to help me manage my time as a teen i'm not sure many of them would have sunk in, -however-, once i got to university and realized that i -wanted- to succeed beyond the level of performance i'd scraped out at the last minute, i found that i had no idea how to identify my problems or where to look for solutions, and simply spent the rest of university frustrated that i wasn't able to make greater progress in keeping myself together. It's only been since i graduated that i've been able to find tips and tricks for keeping myself better organized. I'm not all the way there yet, but i definitely think that i'd be better off if i at least had a better idea of what sort of things i could have -done- as opposed to receiving inspirational, but in the end useless messages.