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Using Physical Reminders - One-way that may help you remember items, errands, special dates, locations, is to use physical items. These items can include strings, rubber bands, clothing, jewelry, accessories, or about anything else you can think of to jog your memory.

Repetition Don't you get tired of repeating things over and over? Repeating words, sentences, and phrases can help you to remember. The trick is to repeat them over until you know what they are. Actors use this trick when remembering their lines. So do people who need to present or give speeches. I have found this trick helpful when I need to remember information in a short amount of time. You can also use the repeating trick to remember names. This imprints the name on your memory. Could you repeat that please?

Grouping Items and Numbers - When paper is not available; listing items in your head in groups can help you to remember better than trying to remember a long list. For example, you need to get some items at the grocery store. In your mind, you could list your vegetables in one column, your fruits in another, toiletries in another, paper goods in yet another column. Grouping numbers uses a different strategy. It uses the same technique as remembering phone numbers or social security numbers. It is much easier to remember blocks or chunks of numbers than it is random numbers. Grouping numbers can be used for any numbers you like and any block sequence.

Stories, Rhymes & Acronyms You may find making up a story or rhyming helpful for remembering names, items, places, dates, by weaving whatever you are trying to remember in your short story. Your story or rhyme should only be a sentence or two to make it easier to remember; the sillier the story or rhyme, the better. Acronyms are another memory trick to use. For example, you need to go shopping and pick up some tomatoes, raisins, apples, and potatoes. To remember your shopping list, you can use the word TRAP as an acronym to help you remember.

Outlining - Have you ever taken a highlighting marker and highlighted certain passages in a book, magazine, or newspaper? I'm sure most of us have. That is essentially what mental outlining is; mentally taking key words, phrases and leaving the rest. If you focus on the key elements, it's much easier to remember what you have read.

Drawing - I don't know how your drawing skills are, but mine are best left for drawing stick figures. Not that bad, but almost. Did you know that drawing

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