Hi I'm back again to talk to you about working at the computer - you notice I did not say working on the computer.

If you listen to all the noise on the Net, it sounds as though all that you have to do, besides building a website, is to make sure you have traffic, that you have a good rating, traffic, that your site be appealing for those that pass through,etc., and don't forget TRAFFIC.

There are many of us who are constainly buying anything that comes along that will make all this easy.  That we just have to buy it because they say we need it, and we will accomplish more by having it.  That is easy to say but Not At All True!

I have things on my computer that I picked up several years ago (Admit it.  So do you).  At the present time, they are all gathering dust in the computer archives.  Don't you just love that word archives.  We can go back and see if they still work, if we could only find them, and let's not forget if only we could remember all the ones that we thought were going to make life easy and make tons of money.

Fortunately for me, I just had my computer worked on and the additional hard drive I had installed (80 gigs) is going to allow me time (don't know when I will have that lovely word TIME) go through and evaluate if it still has any meaning in todays techie world or just taking up valuable computer space.  I truly believe that we all need to do a Spring/Winter/Summer/Fall cleaning or whatever you want to call it. 

Now that is not to say that there are not some really old things that we have ever opened and never looked at, would not still be helpful.  There are articles that can be revamped, there are tips that could still work with a bit of tweeking.  Get the Picture.  Go through your computer, maybe 1/2 hr each day, an hour if you are lucky (please let us know where you found that hour), and weed out what is taking up precious space.  (You need the space to put more STUFF on).

But here is the ticket.  If it sounds good, If it looks like it is something that can be useful - DO SOMETHING WITH IT.  I believe that is the #1 problem with all of us, me included.  We gather all the freebies, but what do we do with them.  We load up our computer with the thought that I'll look at later, and later comes and you forget what you downloaded or worse you can't remember where you downloaded it.

Tomorrow I will give you some tips regarding downloading things like software, ebooks, etc.

Until then, "Remember to Relax and Breath, it will all come together with a bit of Patience".

Teresa Rothove

www.teresarothove.ws