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10 Ideas to Help You Remember - by Maria GraciaYou are busy and you have tons of things to do. How can you possibly remember it all?Having a sharp memory recall can be as simple as finding ways to help jog your memory throughout the day. Here are 10 quick ideas: 1. WRITE IT DOWN. With the amount of things you have to remember in any given day, why should you try to stuff it all into your memory bank? When you want to remember something, the very best thing to do is write it down. Then, when you need to recall it, it will be there for you in an instant. 2. KEEP IT TOGETHER. When you write down things you want to remember, keep them in one consistent place. Otherwise, you`re going to spend a lot of time looking for your notes. 3. MAINTAIN GOOD HEALTH. Eat healthy foods, get enough sleep, and exercise. These are all important for your memory, staying focused and being alert. 4. RECORD YOUR THOUGHTS. Sometimes you might want to remember something, but it`s impossible for you to write it down, such as when you`re driving. A little hand held tape recorder is a wonderful gadget to carry around with you and record your thoughts, or your parking space number, or a phone number you see on a billboard. 5. CALL YOURSELF. If you`re at the office, and you want to do something when you arrive home, call your answering machine and leave yourself a message. When you get home, you`ll listen to your message and remember exactly what you wanted to do. 6. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. If you keep saying you have a bad memory, you`ll probably continue to have a bad memory. It`s important to have a motivated, I CAN remember attitude. 7. SEND YOURSELF E-MAIL REMINDERS. There are many free e-mail reminder services available. You simply type in what you want to remember, such as a birthday, anniversary or event, and you then receive an e- mail reminder when the date is approaching. 8. POST STICKY NOTES. Those wonderful, little sticky notes can be amazing memory helpers. Want to remember something before you leave the house? Jot it down on a Post-It Note and stick it on the inside of your door. You`ll be sure to see it as you`re getting ready to walk out. Have to make an urgent call first thing in the morning? Leave a Post-It Note on your telephone. 9. SET TIMERS AND ALARMS. Take advantage of alarm clocks and timers throughout the day. Have to take the clothes out of the wash at 3:00? Set your alarm clock to remind you. Want to leave for the basketball game by 6:15? Set your timer to beep a few minutes before. 10. USE VISUAL REMINDERS. Visual reminders can help you remember and focus. I especially like visual reminders for remembering your goals. If your goal is to take a trip to a beautiful island in a few years, keep a magazine photograph of the island right on your desk. If your goal is to own your own business one day, find a picture or ornament that will help remind you of this goal each day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by Maria Gracia - Get Organized Now! http://www.getorganizednow.com FREE Idea-Pak and E-zine filled with tips, ideas, articles and more to help you organize your home, your office and your life at the Get Organized Now! Web site! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS ARE FREE TO REPRINT THIS ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRETY AS LONG AS THE BYLINE REMAINS INTACT. Maria Gracia, author of `Finally Organized, Finally Free,` can help you organize your home, your office and your life. Visit her Get Organized Now! Web site for a free idea-pak: http://www.getorganizednow.com Make Mistakes! It`s Okay. Really! - By Ronnie NijmehWhen you fall, do you get right back up? Do you learn from your mistake and move on? Or do you kick yourself so hard in the butt that you just mope around for days in your PJs and wonder why you`re so miserable? Come on! Get a grip!Okay, okay, that was uncalled for, but seriously, the more mistakes you make, the more you learn. The more you learn the more you grow and the more likely you`ll be a future bright star in the sky. When you were a young growing child, how were you supposed to know the oven was hot? Or that you can?t put metal in the microwave? Or that when you say something impolite you`ll hurt someone`s feelings? You would have either experienced these things first hand, or you were taught that these were all things to avoid. Mistake Anxiety A constant fact of life is that we all make mistakes. What varies is how we all handle a self-inflicted setback. Some get angry; others get upset, while others encounter the wretched beast known as denial (What mistake? It wasn?t me!). Just like we mentioned in ?The Key`s in the Hole. Now turn it!? it?s important to take a chance! If you make a mistake, at least you turned the key and made a valiant attempt. If you were too terrified of turning the key, you never would have known whether you would have been successful or not! And you couldn`t have possibly made a mistake to learn from! I mean, how can you learn without messing up every once in a while? You need to make a mistake to learn. If you did everything perfectly, then you?ll never know the right strategy from the wrong. Are You a Leader? Then there?s a whole other set of people who admit to their mistakes, acknowledge that they stumbled, but they go right into contingency mode. I mean, so you screwed up, so what? It?s not the end of the world is it? The Earth will still be in orbit and mosquitoes will still be biting the hell out of your legs. It?s not a question of: ?I screwed up, give me pity? it?s a question of: ?Okay, I slipped-up, but this is what I?m going to do about it ? The best leaders out there are the ones who made the most mistakes but learned from them. The ones that never discovered or acknowledged their faux pas never made it into the business world and never made a difference in their own life, or the world. Young Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Josh Towers went 0-12 last season between Baltimore and its Triple-A club. This year he was the Jays` fifth starter and went 8-1. Quite the turn around from just a year ago! Josh Towers, the winning Jays` pitcher in the last game of the season, said: "You can`t succeed without failing. I failed. I learned a lot from that." Now go out there and pitch a perfect game in your life. You might fail once. Or twice. Or ten times. But just remember, each failure brings you closer to a glowing success. ?Copyright 2003, Ronnie Nijmeh, ACQYR.com. Reprinted with permission of ACQYR.com. For more information and exciting free articles, visit http://www.acqyr.com. Live. Learn. ACQYR. Project index
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