12 things to help you remember more.

1. Keep your attention focused on the needed information to be stored in your memory bank.
2. Utilize the most ideal sense or senses when gathering information. This is what we call acuity in sensing our environment.
3. Relate memory to taste, smells, and other senses.
4. When you're not sure that the information that you are about to remember would really be retained by your brain, write it down.
5. Maintain a balanced diet. A well proportioned diet will result to a conditioned memory.
6. Don't deprive yourself with enough rest and sleep.
7. Take time to relax.
8. Stay positive, creative and energetic.
9. Your memory needs to be within a circle of various things. Continuously excercise your memory by reading, doing crossword puzzles and other cognitive activities.
10. Drag out the times tables or count backwards from 100.
11. Organize your day.
12. Make time for the things that require some extra attention to increase your ability to focus.