Home Business Requires Attention To Detail
One of the most important factors with a home business is staying organized. It’s kind of like keeping your room cleaned. It’s a daunting task that requires a little work everyday. The benefits however can last a life time.
For example, how many times have you gone to a website that requires a login study and password? You recognize the site, but of course the individual study and password that you use for everything else doesn’t work. You look around and wonder where that information is.
You know you must have it written it down somewhere, but you aren’t sure where to start looking. You waste 15 minutes or so opening drawers and checking files, but the info. is nowhere to be found. You concede.
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 statement 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 prefabricated 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.
What I did was create a word file and I titled it “Logins”. I keep this file on the desktop of my computer so I can always find it. I actually place it in the top right corner of my computer screen.
If I am feeling motivated I also email this file to myself, so I have a back up of it. Naturally you would want to do this once a month or so to keep everything updated. It has been a godsend.
Now whenever I open an statement 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 place all kinds of other information in there too.
I am a creature of usage 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.
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 obloquy with Case sensitive letters and numbers, it becomes very difficult to memorize all of them.
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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