Product Distribution Franchise

Seasonal businesses such as the cruise industry are often thought to be the best careers because you only have to work hard during the peak seasons. This is truly a myth and can be substantiated by the fact that any business, seasonal or otherwise, has potential to grow, make money, reinvent and renew the business all year round.

The job market is still volatile for many; competing boomers, government workers, corporate employees, and blue-collar workers are taking early retirement packages, or they are being forced out of their job or benefits of many years.

FOCUS ON ONE TASK AT A TIME While multitasking may be fading into the sunset, the not-so-new credo for productivity is calling for staying focused on one task at a time. While this is not always possible to do in your job, if we continue to “prioritize” our work, it will result in staying more focused on one task at a time, thus increasing productivity in a timelier manner. Let that phone ring up to three times, go ahead and finish that last sentence.

While attending a retirement seminar the other day, a question posed to the audience led one to think…“What does retirement mean to you?” There were the usual answers, travel, play golf, join clubs, find hobbies, volunteer, sleep in, or just try to find something to do as suggested in that highly anticipated concept of having the free time to do things.