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Keep your feet flat on the floor when sitting at your desk.  This will improve your posture and blood circulation.  Both of these will give you the benefit of improved energy and help avoid muscle pain associated with bad posture.

There are advantages to shopping in your local store. It is helpful to pick up products and view them and it is nice to keep your business local. However, there are times when you can make substantial savings online.

I purchased a few books from my local bookshop yesterday, but decided not to buy one particular book because I thought it was a little expensive at €29. I checked out the book on Amazon today and purchased it for €17, including shipping and allowing for currency conversion.

There are many times when you can save both yourself and your business by shopping online. Before making some purchases check if the product or service is available online and if you can make a big saving on it.

When checking figures, it is very easy to assume that everything is correct, once the figures balance. But sometimes this assumption can lead to serious errors. If something is left out of both sides of your figures, they may still balance, even though they are wrong.

I recently checked payments we received from a large client. In one column I wrote down everything we were owed, and in the second column I listed all the payments we had received, from the client. The figures balanced and I closed the file content that all was in order.

A little later, one of my colleagues mentioned a payment we were owed from the client. I went back to check my figures and realized the client hadn’t paid for this. But my figures balanced because I hadn’t included it in the column of what was owed. The figures balanced, but a helpful observation from my colleague, avoided a mistake that would have cost the company a lot of money.