What makes you happy ?

For ages I’ve been trying to get a grip on the jobs I do. The main one is answering support tickets obviously, but there are some other small tasks which still need doing every day. I am hopeless at remembering some sorts of information and these little tasks fell right into that gap. Because of this I was not getting a routine going and not having a routine can really mess up your day – even when working from home, maybe more so in fact. So I started making lists – post-its, notepads, an image stuck on the desktop, reminders on calendars and nothing worked. My workload seemed more because of the disorganisation. And then one day I went to Backpack for something that happened to be stored there and nowhere else. It has lists.
For the last 2 weeks I have tried to get back into some sort of routine and I’m getting there – this week has been (mostly) smoother than previous. The pages at Backpack I can use so the laptop also can get at info and I have a daily todo and a weekly todo. And it’s working – and because it’s working I want to keep using it – it doesn’t feel like it’s effort to use. (It’s one of my home pages and it’s in the bookmark bar along with everything else work related). It’s an account I got and never really thought I would use. If – and only if – it’s still as useful I’ll upgrade at the end of January as the calendar would be cool and some space that is not on the host I have would also be cool. And if I can remember to keep my mobile charged (I probably spend less than £20 a year on calls/texts which is why I forget) I could use the reminders. Useful place. (And it has OpenID signin too)