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Getting Organized With A Home Business |
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Written by Larry Lassiter
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 17:32 |
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If you have a home business or do a lot of work on the computer, then you must be able to find things. A clean computer desktop is like a clean house. It can be a laborious task, but the benefits are huge.
by LarryLassiter
If you have a home business or do a lot of work on the computer, then you must be able to find things. A clean computer desktop is like a clean house. It can be a laborious task, but the benefits are huge.
How often do you go to a web page that demands a user name and password to login? Of course your normal user name and password won't work, and you have no clue what it might be. You look around the desk to see if it might magically be available.
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 have no choice now but to re-open a new account and go through the whole process again. You get an email confirmation telling you that your new account should be active within a day or two. You almost take a hammer to your computer and start smashing it into a million pieces.
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.
Because I appreciate this file so much, I will email it to myself once in awhile. This creates a backup in case I ever lose the original. You would be surprised how much time this will save you in the near future.
Now whenever I open an account or have to create a login ID, I cut and paste this information into my "Logins" file. I have several home businesses and this method probably saves me over 40 hours a year. I put all kinds of other information in there too.
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
About the Author:
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