Judy Marcus - Memory Improvement Tips

Over-multi-tasking? Brain stretched to limit? Here's tips to relax and de-stress so you can remember better.

While emailing with a New York Times reporter about memory tips, he wrote:

"Judy:  Trying to stretch my mind, but it's stretched to the limit, I'm afraid, and feeling the wear and tear of the strain."

Here's my reply to him - perhaps it speaks to you as well: 

"I hear your pain from the strain of too much on the brain.

When I'm in that spot, these three easy strategies work:

1.  I take a breathing space break often throughout the day.  It's easy.  A simple deep breath in through my nose, filling my belly with air to the count of four, and then breathing out through my mouth to the count of six as if floating a feather in the air.

2.  I meditate to calm my mind and give it resting time.

3.  I give myself permission to take even a twenty-minute holiday and do something totally different and fun."

Let me know if you find the above helpful.  Also let me know what  destressers you have up your sleeve.Blog-on!

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Memory Improvement Speaker Disappears in Bermuda Triangle. Or, Remember to Save Your Memory While It's Fresh in Your Mind - Before it Evaporates

I waited too long and I lost a treasured memory of Bermuda-- so now can I get it back?

Early this March I was in Bermuda, as the keynote speaker for the Wonderful Women being honored at the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce 2nd Annual Wonder Woman Luncheon.

I was enamored with the beauty of the island, and charmed by all the people I encountered.  They treated me royally -- and The Bermuda Royal Gazette ran a great article about my memory training keynote presentation.  They even included a photo of me on the podium of the Fairmont Hotel -- a photo capturing an energetic and laughing me --  (If you're like me and you usually sift through fifty-seven photos to find the one that shows your personality and hides the wrinkles - or whatever it is you wish wasn't showing -  then you can understand why I was so thrilled to see a candid photo of me that I loved.) 

Had I only acted soon enough.  Then I could have included a link in this blog article so - if you wanted to - you could just click onto the March 10, 2008 Bermuda Royal  Gazette page and see me in my glory. 

But too much time elapsed - and there is now a different article - and a different photo - and mine is in the archives and I will have to do a lot of research to get it back.  And when I do, I will send it out so you can see it, if you wish.

Lessons learned as life imitates memory training.

Notice how similar this "lost in the internet photo experience" is to when you're introduced to someone, and you wait too long to pay attention and capture his or her name - and then the name evaporates from your mind as you are introduced to the next person...

So you can see - whether it's names and faces you want to recall, or newspaper articles posted on the internet you want to be able to click on - how important it is for you to understand what is important to you - and then not wait to capture the images you want to remember - or, they'll disappear.

Don't forget to take the time to remember!

Share your stories.

How about you?  Do you have stories to share about something you lost because you didn't pay attention?  Blog on and share your stories!

p.s.  In case you're wondering about the Bermuda Triangle, it's:  Time - The Article - and Judy in Bermuda

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)**********************************************************************************************************

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