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 many times have you gone to an internet account that require you to login? You end up at a website that you may not have been to in months, and now it wants your case sensitive user name and password. After a few login attempts, you get locked out from signing up for 24 hours.

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 determine that now you have to create a new account at this site because you don’t want to call and talk to some customer service rep. from India. Everything goes smoothly until you get that email that says to allow 48 hours for your new account to be verified. The swimming pool outside starts to look like a great place to throw your computer into.

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.

I am a creature of habit when it comes to these things now, so I try to have the same username and password as much as possible. They say you shouldn’t do that, but most of the accounts I make aren’t exactly an issue of national security.

And of course the sites I use most are usually the ones with strange login ID’s. It becomes very difficult to remember all of them. That is why putting them all in one place that you can easily find is worth its weight in gold.

And of course the sites I use most are usually the ones with strange login ID’s. It becomes very difficult to remember all of them. That is why putting them all in one place that you can easily find is worth its weight in gold.

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