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• Store the supplies (define where).
• Put a cross beside incorrect parts on the purchase order form.
• Label the incorrect parts (define how) and set aside (define where)...

Get your accounts up to date

Get those invoices out on time! Chase late payers politely, but hard.

If you offer credit, create a system that ensures you invoice the same day a project is finished, or a product delivered. And create another system that flags up when those invoices are one day overdue. Otherwise, you are, in effect, acting as their banker and offering loans for free!!

Take a break

If things are really quiet, and you're feeling down, take a break. Switch on the answering machine, lock the front door, and go to a Theme Park and ride a rollercoaster, or go bungee jumping or do something that you don't normally do. Shock the system. Create excitement. Feel alive.

As Lincoln said, 'In the end it's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.' The same goes for your business.