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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.

Today’s digital world has affected many businesses mostly for the good, but there are a few others we hate to see leave. In the franchise business you are always safe with the new digital tools used to market your business. For example, it has been said that once the baby boomers have transcended to higher places, so too will the newspapers and Post Offices. While nostalgia tries to maintain a strong hold on traditions, the pioneering spirit of digital platforms have taken over the world of communications. Already, if you get on a bus or a transit system, you do not see people reading the newspaper or books anymore, you see people on cell phones, ipad, iPods, or kindles.