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Digital Safety — Month Two

$49.00

This is the month everything stops feeling fragile.

It’s for the Saturday you set up a new phone and everything comes across with you, including the codes, and nothing locks you out for a week. It’s for the call telling you there’s a problem with your account, and you hang up and call the number on the back of your card, because that is simply what you do now. It’s for the letter saying your information was in a breach, and you read it once and throw it away, because your credit has been frozen since March.

You work through four areas over four weeks, and each one takes three steps: configure, recover, then monitor. You start with your accounts, beginning with your phone number, which is a credential almost nobody treats like one. The next week you protect your money and your credit. The week after that you protect your files and your photographs, and you test a restore instead of assuming one. In the last week you cover your devices, your network, and the people connected to you.

The rhythm is about two hours a week, in whatever shape your week allows. A good deal of it happens sitting on the couch with your phone. One piece of it, the credit freeze, takes a single sitting, and it is the highest-value hour in the book.

The steps are mostly small, and they are better to do than you would guess. You switch something on, you note that it’s done, and it stays done. Nothing you set up this month has to be set up again.

Month Two of the Digital Life Management System. 50 pages. PDF. Instant download. No login required.

This is the month everything stops feeling fragile.

It’s for the Saturday you set up a new phone and everything comes across with you, including the codes, and nothing locks you out for a week. It’s for the call telling you there’s a problem with your account, and you hang up and call the number on the back of your card, because that is simply what you do now. It’s for the letter saying your information was in a breach, and you read it once and throw it away, because your credit has been frozen since March.

You work through four areas over four weeks, and each one takes three steps: configure, recover, then monitor. You start with your accounts, beginning with your phone number, which is a credential almost nobody treats like one. The next week you protect your money and your credit. The week after that you protect your files and your photographs, and you test a restore instead of assuming one. In the last week you cover your devices, your network, and the people connected to you.

The rhythm is about two hours a week, in whatever shape your week allows. A good deal of it happens sitting on the couch with your phone. One piece of it, the credit freeze, takes a single sitting, and it is the highest-value hour in the book.

The steps are mostly small, and they are better to do than you would guess. You switch something on, you note that it’s done, and it stays done. Nothing you set up this month has to be set up again.

Month Two of the Digital Life Management System. 50 pages. PDF. Instant download. No login required.

What’s inside

Protection is only half of it.

Each area takes the same three steps: configure, recover, then monitor. Most security advice stops after the first one. Recovery is the half nobody does, and it is the half that decides whether a bad day costs you an afternoon or a month.

Week One

Your Accounts

Your phone number first, because everything else resets through it. Then locks at your carrier, stronger second factors, and a way back in for every account that matters.

Week Two

Your Money & Your Credit

Alerts on the accounts, a spoken passphrase at the bank, and the credit freeze that stops anyone opening anything in your name.

Week Three

Your Files & Photographs

A real backup rather than a sync, and a restore you have run yourself, so you know which of the two you have.

Week Four

Your Devices & Your People

Encryption, passcodes and Find My, tested before you need them, plus your home network and everyone connected to it.

Also included

The Five Rules, a decision framework for the call, the message and the payment request · the review rhythm that keeps protections current · a reference appendix · and a Month Two checklist.

Before you buy

Questions

Do I need Month One first?

No, and plenty of people start here. Month Two protects the accounts, money, files and devices you already have, whether or not you have listed them anywhere. Month One’s inventory makes it easier, because you know what you’re working through, but it isn’t a requirement.

What do I get, and how?

A PDF, delivered the moment you pay. The link appears on screen and arrives by email as well. No account, no login, no app, and the file is yours to keep and print.

Do I need to be technical?

No. Every step names the setting, tells you where to find it, and says what it does. Where providers use different words for the same thing, we list the names each of them uses.

Will this make everything harder to use?

No. Most of what you switch on this month you will never notice again, and passkeys and an authenticator app are faster than the codes you’re typing today. The one thing that does add a step is the credit freeze, and it lifts online in a few minutes whenever you need to apply for something.

Can I get a refund?

Digital downloads are final sale. Once the file has been delivered there’s no way to return it, and this is a small business protecting work that took thousands of hours to make. If your download doesn’t arrive, or the file won’t open, reply to your receipt and we’ll sort it out. And if you read the whole thing and think it was worthless, write and tell us. That sits outside our policy and we don’t make a habit of it, but we’re not going to argue with you about a PDF.