3 Steps to Achieve Your Goals and Create Better Online Passwords

Posted May 20, 2009 * Comments(7)

This tip is a ‘2 For One’ – it’s a neat trick to help you practice the power of positive thinking to achieve life goals, while helping you create strong passwords for websites to make your online identity more secure.  Never forget a password again. Here are the steps:

  1. Write down a few positive life goals, mantras, or other statements that The Secret, Napoleon Hill or Tony Robbins told you would make you happier and more successful.  Some examples:
    • Practice a Random Act of Kindness
    • Exercise every morning before work
    • Build $1 Million in net worth
  2. Turn elements of the phrase into an acronym.  Look for opportunities to swap out words for numbers or symbols, and emphasize the important words with some capital letters:
    • to, too, two = 2
    • for, four = 4
    • money, wealth = $, $$
    • I = 1,!
  3. Use the phrase as a password for those sites that require complex passwords with combinations of letters (incl. mixed case), numbers and symbols
    • Practice a Random Act of Kindness = p1RAOK
    • Exercise every morning before work = Xemb4w
    • Build $1 Million in net worth = b$1Minw!!!
This technique solves several problems – it makes it easier to create ’strong’ passwords, it helps you remember those passwords, and it reinforces the achievement of positive goals in your everyday life. 
Hope you find this helpful – and maybe even keeps you from ever forgetting a password again.
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7 Comments so far

  1. Gina on May 20th, 2009

    What a great tip! Thanks, I was just about to do some goal setting! :) Now I can kill 2brdsw1.!

  2. Matthew on May 21st, 2009

    Great idea. I really like how you combine a meaningful memory device with clever security. I'll be applying this going forward. Cheers!

  3. Lukas119 on May 26th, 2009

    awesome, and such a easy way to remember the passwords. thank you for share

  4. Three ideas from the WWW that caught my imagination this week | be amazing today on May 29th, 2009

    [...] Darren Rush’s blog entry on achieving goals creating better online passwords combines creating strong internet passwords (containing seemingly random letters and numbers but which are easy to remember), with affirming positive life goals every time you use them. One example is Practice a Random Act of Kindness, which becomes p1RAOK. Practical and inspirational – genius! [...]

  5. Deanna on May 30th, 2009

    Agree with all the above!

  6. Three ideas from the WWW that caught my imagination this week on July 11th, 2009

    [...] Darren Rush’s blog entry on achieving goals creating better online passwords combines creating strong internet passwords (containing seemingly random letters and numbers but which are easy to remember), with affirming positive life goals every time you use them. One example is Practice a Random Act of Kindness, which becomes p1RAOK. Practical and inspirational – genius! [...]

  7. Anonymous on January 22nd, 2010

    Cool, I'm gonna use: "Passwords Are Super Secret Words Or Really Dumb" or PASSWORD for short… Thanks Darren!!!