Paperwork

I used to be so much better about keeping up with the amount of paperwork a small business can create. Every few months, I would dutifully enter the few credit card transactions in a register, so the expenses could be properly tracked and classified. And I was always very careful to keep personal and professional expenses strictly separate. I still enter the sales data every month (with information provided by a fulfillment company), but everything else has fallen into disarray.

Even my personal paperwork — the bills to be paid, forms to be filled out, notes of tasks that need to be attended to — accumulate on my desk. I try to attended to them regularly, but weeks pass before notice is taken.

The past year was a difficult one, with many unexpected (though not altogether unpleasant) distractions. This year has been different — perhaps better in some ways, but I find I'm still trying to rebuild the sense of structure in my life.