Finding your Focus continues this week with a look at a building block of time management, a way to reduce the immediate overload, the Tickler or FortyThree system.

This is accompanied by the usual Microsoft Excel Tip for the week, this time movement.

Overloaded and struggling to handle all the demands on your time is not an uncommon theme in all areas in life.

There is a plethora of advice on how to cope, from tools and techniques, digital to analogue and even mindset that can help.

This is the first in a short series and the introduction to some of the mechanisms I have employed over the years.

From time management, prioritisation and tools, systems and techniques. Where to start?

Excel is beguiling, a tool that is used and abused across desktops globally. Just how well do you know it. Introducing a weekly tip that has helped me and a quick summary of some big new functions worth adding to your armoury for 2021.

Rock Star Misdemeanour or Smart business. David Lee Roth and the Brown M&M’s story. Contract small print often serves a purpose, in this case it was quite specific.