You may believe that you're productively multitasking as you bounce between your Smartphone, tablet, and laptop. The fact is that you're just being distracted. In Marla's opinion, the words productive and multitasking should not be allowed in the same sentence! Single-minded focus is key to productivity.

Distractions like texts from employees or "urgent" emails from clients are time-consuming all on their own. But did you know that it takes up to 28 minutes for your brain to refocus after being interrupted? Wow! A two-minute interruption can lead to a full half-hour gone down the drain. Eight little distractions and half your day is shot.

Today your host, business coach, Marla Tabaka, is going to fill you in on some outrageously simple, some even unlikely, steps to send your productivity levels through the roof, and none of them involve multitasking--or email!