My life story

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My life story
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Let any old man do his duty during his life, in order that humanity could progress better than before; so, what can be better than Writing An Autobiography telling the world what one can learn about life?
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If we would like to be counted as good people from the rest of the comunity, we should try to do our best during our lives, and the try to give our life learning to the future generations. 






My life story

Dear readers, this is the continuation of our last post, an old man life story. Click edit above to add content to this empty capsule.

As I was saying in our last post, the old ladies were telling us stories when we were kids; I apologize for not being able to tell you any of those stories that my mother and my grandmother were telling me, they were old fashioned good stories for us kids, since we kids would hear them many times and still we were interested in them, perhaps we were waiting for the heroes of the stories to do what they had to do to have their ways. Anyhow, today I have forgotten most of those stories, therefore I am not able to tell you any of them. But anyhow this is not the only reason why I am writing this article; because what I would like to write here in the future is this; I am going to tell you the story of my life. I know that now you are thinking, what is wrong with me why should I tell you the story of my whole life? Well it is just because I cannot tell you a fairy tale anymore, since today people don’t believe anymore in fairies or fairy tales, and really, I don’t remember most of the tales that I have been told when I was young, so I could not tell you much of a story; therefore, I am going to tell you the story of my life, because that is the only story that I know better than anybody else.

Now that I have decided to tell you my whole life story, starting with this hub called, (An old man life story), which is going to be also the name of my story writings, I have also to say that there are other issues that have prompt to write my life story, the main issues are written hereunder.

Firstly, I would like to tell you dear readers that I would like to write this story of to my life, in order to compare the ways of living between these days and the old time ways; since I believe that in order to tell a story and make sense to the listener or readers there should also be a purpose for it, so, if we try to compare this old life story to today ways of living, then it may make this story more interesting for everybody.

Having said that, now I wonder what it would be like if one could go back in time, just like in time travel fictions of today, how nowadays ways of living would have affected the older generations. You see, generally speaking in the old days normally time seemed to stand still and very little changes would happen, and if anything did happen it would happen very slowly, except when there were wars or some other violent happenings, like earthquake or diseases that could kill lots of people around; whereas today everything changes very fast even when there are no wars, earthquake or disease; therefore, what could be said that is brand new today, in a few days may be said to be old. I hope you see what I mean?

Secondly, I am going to tell you about why I feel that I have to write this story, and why I believe I have to write it. You see, I feel that every human being has a story to tell, and anyone of us could tell our own story if we attach enough importance to the story that we want to tell. So, to me it happens that I believe that by telling you my life story, not only I become satisfied that I have written my own life story, but I would also feel that I am doing humanity a good service, because something can be learned from my life story. I believe that it is the life duty of any man to try to improve anything at all, if one can; so, let me explain the way I feel about what could or would be the duty of any man here under.

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The Duty of any human being

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Or perhaps we should call this the duty of any man

The duty of any human being may be divided in two folds; one of this duty is an idealistic duty about what a man should do for the betterment of humanity; the other duty is how a human being or man should behave during his life, in order to be viewed and thought to be of good character and everything else, which enhances the quality of life itself; because these two things is what distinguishes us from the animals’ world, and also from those do no good humans that want to rip off the rest of the human society for themselves.

Having said that, now let us start to talk about that idealistic duty that a man is supposed to do during his life, since we believe that it would be a good thing for all humanity, as the aim is to do something for the betterment of all humanity.

Therefore, let us start from the beginning of our own lives and use first of all our own lives observations to decide what is the duty of any human being. We have reasons to believe that when a man (or woman) is born, they receive their gift of life from God and/or Mother Nature or whatever one believes in there is that makes life possible on earth. Of course all this is would be achieved through and from their parents, who would be guided from their natural instinct to do what they have to do to bring on a new life, as we all know this is the only way for life to reproduce itself and continue indefinitely.
Now, for life to evolve and become better, it is important that we all do our best, so we should be very careful what we do during our lives; therefore, this gift of life that we have received from God, Mother Nature or whatever we believe our lives come from, we have to be very careful with it and we should endeavour to guard our lives dearly during our own lives, with all our inner will and physical strength, because our lives is a very special gift that we have received from God, if we believe in God, or from Mather Nature or whatever one believes in.

You see, there are reasons to believe that every one of us have our own ways of seeing this gift of life in different ways, but for those who believe in God have an extra special meaning, since God is the life giver of all existing life on earth. Therefore, the life duty of a man even in the eyes of God is that a man must try to live his own life well, or at least as good as his parents have done before him, and if he can he must try to improve the standard of life he has received. Now if there are any improvement that he has made during his life, they should be passed onto his children, so that the next coming generation that will come through him and from him will have a better standard of life that he has had during his life, since he has been able to improve that standard of life that he has received himself, so let any man come forward and say what he has to say about his beliefs or improvements that he could contribute to humanity.

Now that I have described above what I think the life duty of any man could or would be, and of course believing every word that I have said above, there could be no way that I could or would avoid to do my duty for the improvement of future generations. Of course by doing my duty as we have said above, not only I have achieved something good for the community at large, and therefore I would feel that my life has been worthwhile living, because I have done something worthwhile during my life; otherwise I would feel that life has passed me by and I have not done anything important, or contributed anything at all for the improvement of humanity and the future generations. For this reason, I believe that our life learning should be passed on for the betterment of all humanity; we have to come back to talk about this duty, after I explain what I believe our other human duty is.

I believe that this post is becoming too long for today average reader, because they seem to like only short articles. So, see you soon in our next post, the other human duty.

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This is:  

Menfranco general blog, 

My life story

IS TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, the other human duty

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/ 

http://rentalsbrisbane.net

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com 

An old man life story

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In the old times our grandma used to tell us children stories, they did not read the story from a book as it is done these days; but they new by heart a few stories that were very handy to tell the children to keep them interested and quiet.



An old man life story

Dear readers, this post is the continuation of our last post, some other general writings, where we began telling you about, an old man story, so, let us start the story right away; because there are a few things that we could tell you.

An old man life story

Let me tell you a story and transport you to another place and to another time, at the time when I was a young kid and my mother or my grandma in the evening would tell me a story just to keep me happy and go to bed and sleep.

Oh my god! What did I say? Tell you fairy tales that the elders of my time were telling me when I was a young kid; no, sorry my dear readers I have made a mistake and I apologize, because you see today I don’t remember much about those stories that the elders of my time were telling me, even though those stories seemed very interesting to us kids then; here I need to tell you that in those times mothers and grandmothers had always a story to tell the kids, it was the only way to keep us kids quiet as there was no TV and most time not even a radio for miles, the only news in those times were in the newspapers, if one could borrow it from somebody that could afford to buy it, the rest of the news were the local news that the people of the town would tell each other, so that they would know what was happening around them, so people would pass them around by word of mouth. Anyhow the stories that these old ladies would tell us were as good as any other story, and if the famous Brothers Grimm had known them they would have written them in their stories book. The Annotated Brothers Grimm : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm‎

Here I would like to point out that a lot of things have changed since I was a kid, but I still remember lot of things that I would like to tell you, so let me go on. Now that I happen to be talking about the mothers and grandmothers of those times, I would like to add how they worked hard to keep kids quiet in those times, we will come to talk about my life story soon, as soon as I finish telling you this old fact of life; because here I would like to add something else that today does not happen anymore in the western world, I am saying the western world because what these old ladies were doing then might still be done in very backward countries today one can never know; I can just imagine that there might still be a few places where progress as not taken place, and therefore people are still using those skills that their forbears have used for centuries or even thousands of years.

Anyhow let me describe to you what these old ladies did to put a child to sleep, they would take the child in their arms sit on a sturdy chair and sing a lullaby while they were rocking the chair until the child would go to sleep, or do the same thing by putting the child in a rocking cradle and rock the cradle and sing a lullaby, those times were a lot harder than today for young mothers as you can see for yourself, not only they had to look after the child, but they had also wash everything by hand as there were not any washing machine, or any throw away paper devises that would keep the child clean, so, they had to rely or their skills that they had picked up from their elders and work hard to keep things going properly.

Today is a lot easier for a young mother, because of the washing machine and other things that make life less stressful, even singing lullaby is gone out of fashion, perhaps it is because there is so much music songs and everything else around us, so, singing lullaby is out of fashion, and for this reason you cannot hear any mother singing their lullaby to their child in any town, I guess that even in the country outside towns they don’t sing anymore, it is the sign of the time people are not born singers, those young mothers were singing then because they had to, it was their job to keep their children quiet even if their singing was out of tune as long as their child was satisfied. You see children are attention seeker and they were happy as long as they knew that there was somebody looking after them, and to hear their mother singing to them and rocking them would satisfy them and fall asleep. Anyhow this is how it was done in those old days.

I think I have said enough in this post, so we will continue with it next time, when I have time to write another post, starting with, my life story. See you then.  

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This is:  

Menfranco general blog, 

An old man story

IS TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, my life story

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/ 

http://rentalsbrisbane.net

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com 

Some other general writings

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG, IN ADDITION TO OUR OWN POSTS, WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO SUPPLY SOME USEFUL INFORMATION TO OUR READERS, SINCE WE ARE GOING TO WRITE SOME DO IT YOURSELF POSTS.
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Welcome to my blog, menfranco general blog
and this post, some other general writings
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Some other general writings
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Hereby I welcome all my posts future readers, in the hope that I will slowly learn how to write beautiful and useful posts to read for those readers that will understand me and follow me. I know that this might be just a dream of mine but let me dream, as there is no harm in dreaming.

Some other general writings

Dear readers, this post is the continuation of our last post, welcome to my life story, where I was welcoming you to my posts and introducing myself, and then explaining why I am writing these posts. Having said that, I hope that somehow I would be able to interest you my readers now and in the future, with my articles about my life story and other things, therefore at this very moment I hope that you dear readers still want to know a bit more about me, so, I am going to tell you this. In the beginning of this article I said that I have some of my friends and also one of my cousins already writing their hubs in Hub Pages, (Hub Pages is a site where people can write many things, it is somehow similar to blogger; anyhow, they have asked me to join them but I am not interested, as I believe that they want to use me to their advantage, so I have decided to surprise them when they see my first article published. So, Hub Pages, my cousin and his friends here I come to surprise you; at least I hope it is a surprise, but I think that they already have guessed what I want to do. 

Here I want also to tell you that I am also on Face book and I am contributing by writing some posts in blogger with my friends, one of these general blog is called Menfranco general blog at this address; http://menfranco.blogspot.com I also follow and contribute in groups of public forum, so I am not completely new to the internet activities of today.

Anyhow, I believe that when my friends see my first article they will think that I have gone crazy, just because they wanted me to help them, and now in a way I am competing with them; they will also be thinking that I am dreaming an impossible dream when they see my first article and my posts, and they will thing that I will not be able to fulfil what I am now promising you dear readers that I am going to write some interesting articles, so, I am saying to my friends that only time will tell if I am going to be able to do what I am promising to do in hub pages site.

Anyhow I believe that I will be able to do what I have to do, because a man has got to do what a man has got to do? It is only a matter of making up your mind and then you try hard enough to succeed. I hope you understand me dear readers, as I am sure that some of you might have been in a similar situation during your life.

Now that I have welcomed you and written my brief introduction about what I would like to write in my Hub Pages articles; this opening article comes to an end and all I have to do is to say to you dear readers what I will be writing in my next post; I think that it is only appropriate that I shall start by telling you about the story of my life, including what I believe a man has got to do with his own life accumulated knowledge, since this may become the main theme in my articles in Hub Pages and blogger in the beginning, and then will see how we go and decide if we have to do something different, whenever it becomes necessary, like when we are reviewing our articles we have written.

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Reviewing our posts or articles

Dear readers here I would like to point out that this last article in this post has been added, when I have reviewed my hubs, you see, while I was reviewing our hubs I have become aware that I have written some good hubs already, so we would like that you could check them out. You see we have written about our life and our life struggles and people seem to think that it is worth reading, the hub My life my struggles, we have written also about The town I came from, and many other articles, we have also written a few hubs telling you about bricklaying, and anyone that is not a real bricklayer might find them helpful, DIY brickwork, this is one link, but there are several articles talking about DIY brickwork, readers are advised to look for anything about houses and building and also some financial issues, like buying your own house, since as you know I am telling you the story of my life and therefore the knowledge that I gained in my life.

Anyhow we are writing a few articles all about our life and what we have learned from life, therefore we hope that they would be helpful to our readers and that they enjoy reading them; or at least read them so that they might be in a better position to understand what is involved, when they are building or buying their apartment or house, you see everybody would like to own their own house, because owning a house is very important, as it helps to live a better and less stressful life.

However here, while I would like to tell you the story of my life, I have to say that I cannot stop wondering how most people tell the story of their lives, so I have been checking on the internet where I found that there are several articles if we look for them anywhere on line.

www.your-life-your-story.com/ Writing An Autobiography,

This is just one link, but there are many more to be found. Anyhow I think that I might have said enough in this first article, so see you in our next post that we will call, an old man life story.

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This is:  

Menfranco general blog, 

Some other general writings

IS TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, an old man story

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/ 

http://rentalsbrisbane.net

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com 

Welcome to my life story

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG, IN ADDITION TO OUR OWN POSTS, WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO SUPPLY SOME USEFUL INFORMATION TO OUR READERS, SINCE WE ARE GOING TO WRITE SOME DO IT YOURSELF POSTS.
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Welcome to my blog, Menfranco general blog
and this post, Welcome to my life story
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Welcome to my life story
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Wherever we go and whatever we do we would like to be welcomed, so, with this sign I am welcoming you to my posts, these posts to start with will be about my own life story and many other things.
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Welcome to my life story 

Dear readers, with this post, I am going to start writing this first article of my life story, my life story is going to be many articles or posts if you like to call them posts. Therefore, let me welcome you to my articles and introduce myself first of all: my name is Frank Menchise; and here I am writing my first article, in Hub Pages, yes you heard it right, I have already published this article in Hub Pages, and now I am repeating them in blogger for my blogger followers.  

So, I would like to welcome you to my posts, you are all invited to read about these articles, which will be about my life story that will be written in the following articles that I indent to write.

I am welcoming you dear readers, since those who are going to read my posts are going to be my friends from now on, so I would like that they feel welcome. So I feel already that I have a bond with you dear readers, and that is the reason why I am welcoming you to my posts with open arms so to speak; since I would like to have many followers.

Now that I have welcomed you to read my articles; first let me tell you who I am and where I come from, my full name is Francesco Menchise and I was born in Genzano di Lucania, for those that don’t know where Genzano di Lucania is, I will tell you it is in Southern Italy.

Now that I have introduced myself, let us state briefly what sort of articles we are going to write for our readers in these posts: in a way all articles put together are going to be the story of my life and what I have learned from it, so, even though today I am in Australia and writing these articles in English, I am going to start the story of my life from where I was born; therefore, for a start we are going to take you on a journey to the place where I was born, and talk about my native town of Genzano di Lucania, where I was born and spent my young life in this town, and therefore, what I did when I was young, then we will talk about my emigrating to Australia and what I did for a living when I came to Australia, and then all the most important things that I have done in my life, so in a way it is going to be the story of my life from beginning to the present days; I hope to be able to write it clear enough for my readers to understand easily. You might say why I want to write the story of my life? Well I don’t really know, but today seems that everybody wants to write about the story of their lives, so I would like to tell you my own life story also.  

Therefore, I hope that I will be able to write about a few interesting things, while I am telling you about my life story, and you are all welcome to read and enjoy anything that you find in my posts interesting, and perhaps sometimes that part that is not going to be very interesting for you, but might have some interesting things for other people. Anyhow you are also invited to comment on my posts if you like, in the hope that by knowing what you would like to hear from me, I could be able to reply and have a friendly discussion with you, and at the same time be able to improve my posts, based on your feedback. So don’t be shy let me hear what you would like to see written in my life story, in the hope that I can make them more interesting for you. You see, I believe that it is the duty of any man that wants to write something to do his best for his/her own readers, apart from the fact that I believe that it is the duty of any human being to write issues for the benefit of humankind, I am going to write an article within my next few posts called, ‘an old man life story’, where I am going to write an article about, “The duty of any man”, so that you can see what I mean; at this point of time, you might be asking yourselves, why I have been writing these articles in Hub Pages and I am going to explain it to you here-under. 

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 Why I am writing articles in Hub Pages

The reason why I am writing these articles in Hub Pages

Now that I have welcomed you to my articles and introduced myself and other things, let me say why I am writing my first article in Hub Pages to start with; you see, I am not sure whether wanting to write has been dormant within me and now I have become aware of this desire to write something, in my old age; I suppose I am just like everybody else and I would like to write my own life story; or it might be because of the many things that I have learned during my life and for this reason today I wonder what I could do with all those things that I have learned during my life, as I feel that it would become a waste of my accumulated knowledge if I don’t use it anymore. So, I have decided to do something about it, because, not only it gives me the chance to tell you my own life story, but also because one should try to remember what one has learned and pass it on to the next generation if possible, therefore I am going to write my life experiences down for myself and my readers, as it might turn out to be useful one day. Now what I have just said is one reason why I am writing these articles in hub pages, but there are another reasons as well, or perhaps just an excuse if you like; you see, one of my last experiences is the following explanation:

But before I can explain everything, let me say something else, I have to say that I am not a real writer and I am still learning how to write properly these articles or posts, so let this learning of how to write properly begin and let me dream that I would be able to write good articles for my readers, of course this being a writer one might say that this is just a dream of mine, but let me dream it is nice to dream something that you would like to do anyhow, and now let me explain the other reason:

You see, I have a few friends and a cousin that are telling me all about their activities in Hub Pages, at this point of time they are writing about religions, which is an interesting subject to discuss and contribute, in the hope that you may say something useful for all humanity just like what I would like to do here, of course there are all those religious beliefs and not beliefs to discuss and here is their first article, which I believe I have contributed and this is the link,  Reconciliation forum, if you would like to check it out, of course this is their hub even though I have discussed these religious issues with them many times. Anyhow I don’t want to go the same way, since they are already covering that; so I have read a few articles here and there because I wanted to see how they were like and I believe that I could contribute something to this Hub Pages site by writing my own hubs about my life story and also writing general subjects, and perhaps be able to earn a few dollars if I am lucky, at least they tell you that it could be done.

I am saying this just because I have in mind to write and publish several articles that will deal in general subjects, perhaps I will have to write things about what I have done in life, like working in the farms when I was young, working in the building industry and my bricklaying trade, which some people might want to know a few things about it, not because they need to know what I have been doing during my life, but because they would like to know how these building things are done, so I would like to describe to them how these things are done as a trade person would do it, therefore, while I am doing these descriptions, I will also be telling you the story of my life, which would be the most important side of my articles for a while when I have not any other important things to say.

I would like to tell you the story of my life, because I think that it could be interesting to know and compare my life happenings with somebody else to see what we have done during our lives; you see, I am an old man now and I find that the way that we are living today is very different from the ways life was when I was young, so I feel some time that I want to tell the younger generation a story beginning with, when I was young; perhaps here I have to add this observation, that I am just like my older relatives who sometimes wanted to tell me their story starting with the words, when I was young. Anyhow I believe that today the difference in life style could be interesting to the public in general to know, in order to compare what sort of improvement we have had in the last three quarters of the last century. Well this is just one way of seeing it, because I believe that there could be many other ways to use the life story of an old man, which is indeed going to be the story of my own life, plus a few things borrowed from our previous generation. I know that these are old stories, and the younger generation live a different way today, but there might be something in my story that might interest even the younger generation, you never know. Well I believe that my articles would be able to highlight the difference, between the way that we live today and the way that we used to live in the past.

My personal beliefs are that today people are better off than they were in the past, at least that is the way that I see it. Of course some people may not agree with me, but that is their opinion and I am not going to challenge that.

Now, we could start to write about some other general writings; but I believe that this post is already long enough for today average readers; so, we will write about that in our next post. See you soon.      

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This is:  

Menfranco general blog, 

Welcome to my life story

IS TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, some other general writings

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/ 

http://rentalsbrisbane.net

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com 

Improving your memory

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Improving your memory
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To do things;
write a to do list.

Interesting Info -> Psychology -> Improving Memory

Improving your Memory

Tips and techniques to help you remember...

...you know, that thing... I forgot. 

Great for students...but other folks could benifet from these tips, as well.

Having problems forgetting appointments, to-dos, errands, feeding your children and pets, picking up after yourself, getting out of bed... not to mention forgetting birthdays, and even anniversaries?

If you are like many people, you will often find yourself forgetting something. In an age of computers, PDA’s, and many other devices - this may be ok for some folks, unless you forget where you put those devices. Others may want to increase their ability to memorize things - luckily there are a few creative ways you can improve your long and short term memory. 

Use your Senses & Be Aware

Practice creating vivid images/concepts in your head - using all of your senses. Analyse your surroundings by sound, sight, smell, taste, and touch. Being aware all of your senses will give your mind more ways to associate (and thus remember) when it is time to recall something.

This is like form of meditation -- which is good for your brain in a variety of ways. (see our article: Interesting Ways to Improve Your Brain for more info). 

Memory and Concentration Games on Blifaloo.com: Memory 3  Memorize color patterns to test your short term memory. Music Memory Test your memory while training your musical ear with this game. Balls & Boxes Memory Game Use your memory and put the balls back into their original boxes. Classic Memory Game Old-school card matching memory game.

Practice this tip of simply being more aware of your surroundings every day and you will find your general memory greatly improved. 

Humor & Vulgarity

If you need to memorize something specific try using humor or vulgarity as a memory aid.

Make a nasty or funny limerick or poem about something that needs to be remembered and you'll have a hard time forgetting. (Great tip for students).

Example: Guitar students are sometimes taught to remember the common 5 string tuning of EADGBE with this:

Every Asshole Does Good But Eddie

Don't worry, be Mindful

There has been a lot said about the power of positive thinking. Recently, a huge bandwagon of new-age positive thought = positive outcome theories have been on tips of everyone's tongue from Oprah to your local convenience store clerk. Just do a google search for "Law of Attraction" or "The Secret" if you aren't in the cult loop.

Negative thoughts fog our minds, but clearing out the negative and focusing on the positive also improves memory & concentration.

Stress is a big brain buster, so minimize stress and negative thoughts to keep your wits.

Apt Quote: “What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.” - Douglas Adams

See the Future

Have trouble remembering to-dos, appointments, meetings, deadlines, birthdays and other future events?

Here is the secret: When you know you have an upcoming event you don't want to forget, picture yourself at the event. What are you doing, who is there, what does it smell like? Imagine the event...even better: imagine yourself taking the steps that lead to the event.

For example, let's say tomorrow you have to call the someone. Picture yourself in your home/office, picture yourself picking up the phone, imagine dialling the number and talking to the person of the other end. 

Associate

Association is among one of the easiest and most used tools in learning. This is the process of taking the information you wish to memorize, and linking it mentally to something else that is natural to you. When learning something new, try to associate the new concept with one to which you are already familiar.

Couple association with being aware using all of your senses and you will have a higher rate of successful recall. 

Chunky like your mom

Chunking information is a great mnemonic method to remember multiple items. Many people naturally use chunking to remember phone numbers: Instead of thinking "17342876642" we chunk it as 1-734-287-6642. 

The concept of chunking comes from a famous 1956 paper by George A. Miller: The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information. If you are a sucker for classic works in the history of psychology (I know, who isn't?) you can read the whole original paper here. 

Write it Down

We generally think of "writing things down" as a means to NOT have to remember something. The paper does the work for -- we just need to remember where we put that piece of paper...

But, writing things down has another effect: you clear your mind and take away the stress of "having to remember", and by doing so you actually have more room in your noggin for remembering stuff. I know that explanation wasn't scientific, but it works.

To-do lists are championed by business gurus and soccer moms alike. Try writing everything down for a week or two and see how much this improves your memory & focus. A great digital tool for "writing things down" is provided by a website called Nozbe.com -- I recommend it for clearing your head and also organizing your thoughts. 

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