If You Really Want To Focus, Create Your Own Start Page

Everyone loves to talk about increasing productivity and doing better in the new year, so I thought it was time to share one of my own personal strategies for this

Many years ago, I created a very plain HTML page and put it into a password protected directory on one of my private sites. This page was a simple index of all (or most) of my daily tools, organized into various sections of the page.

I had all the direct links to the login pages of my income related sites (bank accounts, paypal, etc). I had all the login/member page links to affiliate stats, website stats, and so on. I had links that led me directly to both my private and public tools and scripts.

I can't remember everything I had on there, but the point is: It gave me a one stop dashboard of everything I needed to get work done each day.

I cut out every single extra step I could too. Instead of linking to the main ClickBank page for example, I linked to my main member page after I was logged in. This way if my login is still valid when I click that link, I'm immediately shown the page I want. If the login has expired, I'm shown the login page. No need to go to a page, then click a members/login link, then do something else, etc.

Now, I've evolved this system dramatically in the last year. Here are a couple of screenshots...



This is my main start page. I have it set to load each and every time my browser is first started. The page is password protected, and I've blanked out a lot of the private info of course

You can see my Firefox browser tabs at the very top. On the start page itself I have tabs for various organized information...




Here's what the second tab of my page looks like. This section tracks all PayPal and ClickBank sales/payments (including affiliate), and allows me to keep tabs on just how well things are going from one month to the next - one day to the next, and so on.

As you can see there are quick links around this page. I can click a month to drill down on sales info for that, and not shown farther down the page I can click transaction IDs, customer emails/names, etc to get additional info on specific stuff.

Each of the other tabs are primarily quick links and/or data tracking too. I have a tab with bank and affiliate account links, a tab with quick links and info about my websites and hosting accounts, etc.

Now, I know my system as it stands today is too advanced for most people but the point is to get something started. I started with a plain jane ugly two column html page.

Just get all your critical links, passwords, and whatever other info you need onto one page. Set that page up in a secure, password protected area, then set that page up as your browser start page. You really might be amazed at just how much more productive you can be when you have everything at your fingertips like this

Hope it helps a bit,
Kathy