Despite much success in 2007, my biggest downfall, by far, was not staying on task. I worked in fuzzy mode, bordering on chaos mode. I jumped from thing to thing to thing to thing to thing to thing, without finishing the sentence. Each day, when I woke up, I really had no freakin' clue what I was going to do. I just did what seemed most pressing.

This fuzzy, chaotic, haphazard work pattern wasn't all bad. I did, after all, far exceed my goals set last January and within a year came to hire 7 employees. Last January, I couldn't have imagined generating the sort of revenue that I'm now generating...not to mention having a plan to generate it.

Now that I know what works, I've decided to put more structure on my time and those of my employees in 2008. The idea is that my company can increase cash flow by being more intentional about the way we use our time.

As a model, for your benefit, here's an example map of a 40 Hour Work Week that I might implement for myself:

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