Judy Marcus - Memory Improvement Tips

Memory Tips to Conquer Information Overload: Be smart when you rely on cell phones to remember phone numbers!

 
One way to avert and conquer information overload is to let your smart phone remember the phone numbers.  Free your mind for other uses.

 Good idea!  Or is it?

Carla (name changed to protect the guilty) moved to San Francisco.  Saved all the phone numbers of her new friends into speed dial.   Then the unthinkable happened.

Carla fainted, hit her head on the concrete, and wound up in the hospital two nights for tests and safekeeping.  Adding insult to injury, Carla's  cellphone battery died.  She couldn't remember any of her San Francisco friend's phone numbers.  It wasn't amnesia.  She had never learned them in the first place.

No one knew what happened to her until Carla got home, used her phone charger, and once again had access to her friends' phone numbers.

Carla's out-of-communication dilemna could have been avoided.  If only she had learned the phone numbers of just a few key friends.  

Moral of this story is to be smart for yourself.  Remember the essential numbers. And let your smart phone remember the overload.  

Here's what you can do:  Think of the top seven phone numbers you would not want to be stuck without should your smart phone not be handy or your battery dead.   Use your fingers to punch in each of those numbers at least once a week.  They'll be top-of-your mind.  That's the "use it or lose it" philosophy.  And brain assurance that you will have the essential numbers at your fingertips when you need them.

Let's hear from you. 

WHAT ARE YOUR "Information Overload 

stories?" 

How about  your "I need to put more Brain-Friendly Life-Style Habits in my life" STORIES?   Blog on and share your LOVE Memory Method stories as well. 

Blog on with your comments.  And forward this blog to as many friends and associates as you wish.  Hopefully they'll become Memory Tipsters as well. 

 

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Where Are My Keys? They're easy to find if you look in the right place.

My husband always says if I ever run away from home, one of the first places he'll look for me is a book store.  So, here I am.  Cozy and connected. 

Speaking to a room full of amazing Aspen locals and vacationers in one of my favorite places, Explore Booksellers and Bistro, which is a big house with lots of rooms, all the nooks and crannies filled with an amazing array of books, and a bonus upstairs dining room looking out onto trees and mountain, serving delicious, nutritious organic food.  

That's me.  Sharing information.  Talking WHERE ARE MY KEYS? book-talk.  Teaching people of all ages who have busy, active lives, how to remember whatever they choose to remember - instantly, upon demand. 

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One of my memory tips is to find a place for everything that's important to you, and put it back in its memory place.  That way you don't have to spend hours of your life searching for things because you can't remember where you put them.

I read that in America we waste 90,000 hours per day looking for lost items.  How much time do YOU contribute to that statistic?

Placing your keys on auto-pilot is a good habit to begin with.  My friend Sandi has a basket for her keys right in her entranceway.  She immediately puts her keys in that basket as soon as she walks in the house.  My husband Steve walks in the house, gives me a kiss if I'm home, and then proceeds to the bedroom where he empties the contents of his pockets, including his keys, onto his nightstand. 

The key to Steve's and Sandi's consistant behavior is just that - consistant behavior.  Auto pilot action.  And then they know just where to find their keys.

What about you?  Can you make a commitment to focus on just one object that you will find a memory place for - and then every day for thirty days: stop.  take a deep breath.  and then put that object back in its memory place? 

With the extra time you save by knowing where are your keys (or your glasses, checkbook, wallet, etc.) - where will you be spending your valuable time?  Where are your favorite places to hang out so we can find you?

Blog on and let us know!

Please forward this blog to as many friends and associates as you wish.  Hopefully they'll become Memory Tipsters as well. (Copyright - Judy Marcus - 2008)**********************************************************************************************************

Reprint Permission: You are welcome to reprint any items from the Memory Improvement Tips Blog.  However, please credit Judy Marcus, Memory Lady, as a source, with the following paragraph:

Reprinted from the "Judy Marcus - Memory Lady - Memory Improvement Tips Blog", www.memory-improvement-tipster.com featuring tips and strategies to take control of your memory and keep your brain strong.