Working for yourself is great. I recently read an article in MacLife (I think that was the one — it was on a stack) that said a bad day working for yourself is better than a great day at the cube farm. That’s paraphrased, of course. While that is not universally true, I have found that it’s true for me.

Working for yourself isn’t without pitfalls, however. If you run your own company, even if it’s a one-man show, you have got to be organized. This is coming from a guy who started out disorganized and is now trying to do it in bulk. Sure, I had all the legal paperwork requirements met, held annual meetings, kept minutes, and so on. But basic bookkeeping, among other things, just piled up.

Now, after two years of financial struggles, I’m getting ready to hire my first employee: Me. Even though it’s me, I’ve got to do paperwork, pay monthly payroll taxes, and all that stuff. I decided it was time to stop organizing in bulk spurts once every two months, and devise a system that consists of weekly and daily tasks.

Since I’m one who favors chaos over order (by just a little bit), this is difficult. I haven’t devised any system yet, but I think it will be best if I could just do a little bit every day, so that it doesn’t seem like much at all. I’ll need to take some time and create a meticulous file-system, and get my new version of Quickbooks Pro set up properly to make tracking everything easy.

All of this would be so much easier if I had a large desk all to myself. But I would need a bigger house first.