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Your memory is one of your most vital and basic resources that you get from your body and mind. At any age memory can be improved upon, although it may seem to start slipping with age. Use the sound tips in this article in order to expand how much you can remember and how quickly you can recall it.



You should keep a list of things that you need to get at a grocery store. You need to get. That is by keeping a list you will know exactly what it. This will save a you lot of time from wandering aimlessly, as well as money, once you are at the store. Once home, it will also help keep you organized since you will not have too many multiples of things you thought you needed.



When a person is sleep deprived, his brain struggles to be fully functioning. Simple things like problem-solving, creative thinking and remembering, suddenly become difficult. Getting a full night's rest each and every night will maintain your brain's ability to function at capacity. Enough sleep also increases your memory since the most important memory enhancing activities occur while you are in your deepest sleep.



To remember things like turning off the water, place some object that will remind you in a place where you are likely to trip over it! If you have left the sprinklers on for half an hour while you go inside to eat, put your garden gloves in the kitchen sink or some other unlikely place. This will remind you to turn off the water!



Improve your memory by getting more organized. Sometimes a poor memory is simply a side effect of having too much on your plate and poor organization skills. Try using a day planner to keep track of your schedule. Make to-do lists outlining the tasks that you want to accomplish for the day. Finally, clear up clutter around your house and your work area. When everything is nicely organized and in its proper place, you may find that your memory problems disappear.



Sleep well for at least 7-8 hours a day. A sleep deprived body has diminished functions including problems with brain memory and activities. Studies show that inadequate sleep can cause difficulties in problem solving, critical thinking and studying. Sleeping is an unavoidable part of the learning process as it is necessary for memory consolidation.



Putting information into categories will help you to remember it later! Everything has a category and compartmentalizing things in your memory by category can give you much greater recall. For example, chicken and hot dogs on your grocery list go into the category of milk and meatwater and milk into beverages and so on.



The best way to keep your memory sharp is to make sure that you stay mentally active. Physical exercise keeps your body in shape, and mental exercise keeps your mind in shape. Doing crossword puzzles, reading complicated passages, playing board games, or learning a musical instrument can all help you keep your mental edge.



Getting plenty of exercise will help your memory. Exercise improves the blood flow throughout your body, including the brain. This can invigorate your mind and improve its ability to remember. Even a brief walk for ten minutes can increase your circulation. The fresh air wakes up the brain and keeps it alert, which improves its memory capacity.





A great way to make your memory more effective is to teach other people. If you are forgetting a story about when you taught your grandson to swim, talk about it to more people, for example. It reinforces it in your mind, and makes it harder to forget.



Physical activity enhances the effects of helpful chemicals within the brain and actually protects brain cells, as if you needed another excuse to exercise! Exercise is one potent weapon in improving your memory or maintaining more of it, as you get older. So keep active, keep moving and keep more in memory!



To improve your memory and help your brain work at its highest level, choose food that will nourish your brain. Including healthy fats in your diet can promote the health of your brain and central nervous system. These good fats are found in things like fish, certain nuts, as well as olive flax and oil seed oil.



When you think about how your memory is, make sure you view yourself in a postivie light. If you think you have a bad memory, the self fulfilling prophecy will come into effect and you will have a harder time actually remembering things. Reward yourself for the things that you do remember, and you will see an improvement quickly.



And you happen to remember something you need to do in the near future, do it now instead, if you have a bad memory. You lessen the risk of forgetting to do it when it is required. For instance, let's say you have a DVD due back to the movie rental store tomorrow. Bring it back today so you do not forget.




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Here is a memory tip! Remember something by categorizing it in your mind. This will make recall much easier! As an example, if you are going to go food shopping remember meat and that will remind you that you need pork, beef and chicken.



Things are easier to remember if they have a special meaning to you. Think about why you need to memorize the information. For example, if you are going shopping, ask your self why. It could be for your child's birthday, and thinking about that will help you remember what you need to buy.



Using acronyms is a great way to help you remember things. Acronyms are formed by using the first letter from a group of words to make a new word. This comes in handy when you are learning something ins a specific order. For example, if you are trying to remember the colors of the rainbow, you can remember ROY G BIV (yellow, blue, orange, red, indigo, violet and green).



To help you to remember something, take that abstract thought or article and place it in a memory palace. A memory palace is some place that is familiar to you. By picturing yourself walking through that space, and then seeing, feeling, or hearing the thing you want to remember, that thought will come easier to you. This is a technique used by professionals regularly.



If your memory is either, starting to decline or simply not being as strong as it used to be, consider following some of the suggestions mentioned in brainer360 . You may be surprised at how much greater your memory can quickly become, once you start working on it on a daily basis.





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