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Getting Organized With A Home Business

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by Larry Lassiter

If you spend a lot of time on the computer, or make a living on it, you must keep it organized. I compare it to a clean car inside and out. It’s work to keep it clean everyday, but knowing where your stuff is at, is a great feeling.

For example, how many times have you gone to a website that requires a login name and password? You recognize the site, but of course the user name and password that you use for everything else doesn’t work. You look around and wonder where that information is.

It’s got to be somewhere you think to yourself. You then proceed to lose 20 minutes of your time trying to find the confirmation email the site sent you six months ago. You ultimately determine the information has found the circular file.

You reluctantly go through the sign-up process again and proceed to waste another ten minutes of your valuable time. You then get an email notification that your new account will be activated in 24 hours or less. You feel like throwing your computer out the window.

I managed to repeat this mistake for years until I finally made a change for the better. It’s hard to change when you do things a certain way forever. But, if you force yourself to be aware, you will never have this problem again.

I finally came up with the bright idea to make a word file on my computer. I call it “passwords”. I put this file on the bottom left of my desktop screen so I can always find it. It works like a charm.




I finally came up with the bright idea to make a word file on my computer. I call it “passwords”. I put this file on the bottom left of my desktop screen so I can always find it. It works like a charm.

I then take user/pass data and the web address, and I copy it into my file. It has gotten pretty large over the days, but everything I need is in one place. It is a great feeling.

A lot of the passwords and logins are the same, but this really is useful for those rogue logins that are forced on you. Everyone says you should have a different user and pass for each account, but I am not exactly storing top security information for most of these sites.

It always seems like the sites I use most will give me a login that I can’t pick. When you have twenty or thirty different login names with Case sensitive letters and numbers, it becomes very difficult to memorize all of them.

Use this idea and you will notice that you can breathe easier. There is nothing more frustrating than wasting time searching for something you lost. If multiple people use your computer, then consider password protecting that file. Just don’t forget that password. LOL

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