Choose your password with the code from your email. Make it long - a few words you will remember beats a short one with symbols in it.
At least 12 characters, with a capital letter, a small letter, a number and a symbol or space. Not one of your last ten passwords, and without your name or email address in it.
The code works once, for a week. Next you set up two-step sign-in: a six-digit code from an app on your phone.