30 Days to a More Powerful Memory

Contents

Introduction vii

1. How Your Memory Works 1

2. How Your Long-Term Memory Works 15

3. How Good Is Your Memory? 31

4. Creating a Memory Journal 49

5. Pay Attention!!! 57

6. Improving Your Health and Your Memory 69

7. Decrease Stress and Anxiety to Remember More 85

8. Increase Your Energy to Boost Your Memory Power 96

9. It’s All About Me! 105

10. Remembering More by Remembering Less 110

11. Using Schemas and Scripts to Help You Remember 124

12. Chunk It and Categorize It 134

13. Rehearse . . . Rehearse . . . Rehearse . . . and Review 145

14. Repeat It! 153

15. Talk About It 158

16. Tell Yourself a Story 164

17. Remembering a Story 170

18. Back to Basics 175

19. Take a Letter 181

20. Linked In and Linked Up 187

21. Find a Substitute 194

22. It’s All About Location 198

23. Be a Recorder 208

24. Record and Replay 213

25. Body Language 223

26. Let Your Intuition Do the Walking 227

27. Remembering Names and Faces 236

28. Remembering Important Numbers 245

29. Walk the Talk:: Speeches, Presentations,

and Meetings 255

Notes 261

Resources and References 265

Index 267

About the Author 277