It's Time to Make Records

Have you ever seen real fear? The type of fear that requires full concentration but yet is wildly distracting? I have and it ain't pretty.

The same gentleman I wrote about in my last blog that had taught me several things not to do also taught me to do one thing well: Maintain Good Records. The lesson was purely by accident, of course.

The poor guy got a letter from the IRS simply asking to review his travel records including mileage and expenses. He had little to offer and had to recreate from call reports where he had been for his mileage, and call customers he thought he might have taken to lunch. He of course had his tax records but now he needed specifics about customers. Can you imagine THAT conversation; "Uh, Joe, do you remember going to lunch 11 months ago? Oh, I've never taken you? Must have been Jim, can you connect me to him?"

Keep good and complete records for yourself, your company and our governments!
By the way, he did get out alive but a thin man looked a little thinner by the time he was done.