You can apply self help motivation and improve your memory at the same time.
- Mnemonics
Mnemonics is a fancy word for using the first letter of something you want to remember and creating a memorable sentence from them.
For instance if you were learning to type and you wanted to ensure that you had typed every letter in the alphabet, you could type:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Here’s another example:
To remember the nine planets in our solar system in order from the nearest to the sun you could use:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Pizzas (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,Pluto).
So take the first letter of each word and create sentences that are unusual, catchy or humorous.
Why is this easier to remember. It’s easier to remember because our brain will latch on to anything that sound unusual, catchy or humorous.
- Song and Rhyme
Using a song or a rhyme is an excellent way to improve memory. It’s through song and rhyme that most of us learned our alphabet, we may have been very young children when we did so and yet that rhyme will stay with us for the rest of our lives.
OK. See if you can finish this one:
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two………………………………….
So, turn what you want to remember into a song or rhyme.
If you use self help motivation and practice these methods often you will soon find that you are on your way to having an excellent memory.
I wish you Health, Wealth and Happiness