Moe’s B2B World

How many times have you been driving home and suddenly had that sinking feeling that you’ve forgotten something. You walk in the door and you husband or wife greets you loveingly and hands you your anniversary present.

Wow, what a bummer. You have once again forgotten your wedding anniversary, and you know it is time to work on memory improvement. There are a variety of great tips and techniques that can help you to improve your memory drastically so you won’t have to worry about forgetting simple things, such as your anniversary ever again.

Your memory utilizes several different categories for retention. These are: names and faces, factual information, lists, dates and events, and so on. Each of these areas utilizes different techniques and tools that you can also use for memory improvement.

For example, if you’re someone who can’t quite remember names, there are several techniques you can use that will improve this for you. One way to do this (and one that’s commonly used) is to repeat a name when you’re introduced to that person, such as saying, “Nice to meet you, Tony,” when you’re introduced to Tony. This will help you remember the name and solidify it in your short-term memory.

To make the person’s name stay in your long-term memory, use a rhyme that helps you associate that person’s name with something that’s easy to remember. For example, “Tony” and “pony” rhyme, so you can associate Tony the person with the pony, the animal.

Sometimes it can help to match the rhyme you think of with a common feature about their appearance. This can help remember the name for the long-term as well.

You can also make a word, saying, sentence, etc., out of the first letters of a list of things you need to remember. For example, if you have a grocery list and you need to remember the following:

Lollipops Bread Chocolate Apples Ketchup

Take a look at the list that you have, and then rearrange it to make word, such as follows.

B read
L ollies
A pples
C hocolate
K etchup

Now you can see that the first letters in the list spell the word, “Black.” All you have to remember when you go shopping is the word “Black,” and you’ll be able to easily remember the things that are on your list, since they start with the letters of this word.

Once you learn all these easy little memory improvement tools you’ll be able to have a fantastic memory in virtually no time at all.

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