I typically use passphrases to create passwords. Which would work out like this for
the previous passphrase:

ituptcp

Then I add four digits from a phone number, and a symbol or two, varying the order in
ways I won't specify here, but it might look like this:

itu12ptcp34#

So all I need to remember is the passphrase, and how I order the add'l numbers and
symbols. It is a password and it can be broken. Eventually. The idea is to make it
more difficult.