Memory Skills Made Easy

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Everyone understands that memory skills improve when you sleep well and deteriorate when you don’t. Yet, people can’t seem to understand why they can’t remember where they put their keys even though they are getting 5-6 hours of sleep day after day.

It’s time to take a look at your lifestyle and be honest. Do you wake up relaxed and rested or do you wake up in a fog with a burning desire to go back to bed? Your memory skills depend on an honest answer to that question.

You see, I can show you many different ways to retain information and recall it later. That is easy. What isn’t easy is applying the techniques when your brain is too tired to respond. If you’re having a problem with memory, don’t buy memory pills or a memory program. Get some sleep every night. Then, after a month, get a memory program and learn memory skills that you can learn and use. Once you combine a rested mind with memory skills, you will remember anything  you want.

All right. Get to it. Your memory depends on it!

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If you’re old enough to be an adult, then you have a definite feeling towards memorization. In most cases, it’s a bad feeling. Don’t worry, I feel the same way.

Unfortunately for us, we were trained in the “keep repeating it until it sticks” method of remembering.  A few years of that and you run from memorizing like it was the plague. No one seemed to listen when you told them that things weren’t sticking no matter how many times  you repeated it. Their response was generally, “You’re not trying!” Read the rest of this entry »

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If you’re looking for more information on memory, one of the best places to go is Memory-Improvement-Tips.com.

Even before the owner of the site reviewed Memory Skills Made Easy, I had been looking for a site that had the information you’ll find there. Read the rest of this entry »

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As a parent, you don’t have to sit by while your child does poorly in school due to poor memory. There are plenty of things you can do now.

Number one, find out how they memorize or retain information. The problem could simply be poor organizational skills rather than a poor memory. Once you get those skills straightened out, you can improve your child’s memory very quickly. Read the rest of this entry »

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As a teacher and parent I get confused when I hear that memorizing is a thing of the past. I know when I’m in the classroom that kids can’t remember their Spanish verbs or conjugations easily. I also know as a parent that my son doesn’t remember history facts very easily.

So what am I supposed to do? Tell each to suck it up and get the information in there without a conscious effort?

I’m all in favor of learning in context and understanding information as it applies to real life. I don’t like the idea of memorizing as a rote activity. There needs to be an anchor involved somewhere. Most times this anchor comes from the context and the other elements of the lesson. Read the rest of this entry »

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You can talk all you want about understanding and comprehension. I’ll talk about memory skills and being able to retain and later recall information. In my mind, they are both indispensable parts of the same equation.

Here’s what I mean. Memory skills in and of themselves are not the solution to poor grades. It’s important to understand a concept or fact when it is presented. The problem lies in being able to recall that same fact or concept at a later date. Maybe the next day, maybe in three weeks for a test. Can your child do that?

Or better yet, memory skills aside, can your child do that with all the facts, figures and concepts that are presented in that three week period? Maybe yes, maybe no. 

The problem is not whether your child can understand the concept, fact or figure once it’s presented or remembered. It’s more a question of, can they recall it so that they can show they understand it?

So you see, understanding and remembering go hand in hand. Memory skills are 1/2 of the formula for high grades and self esteem. Nevertheless, they are part of the package and people that say that memorizing is a waste of time don’t know what they’re talking about.

I’d go so far as to say that those same people never learned memory skills and therefore suffered unnecessarily when they had to retain information. They have terrible memories (forgive the pun) of sitting down and trying to remember what they needed. They became frustrated and angry and eventually called the whole process a waste of time.

Am I right? Who knows. All I want to say is that memory skills should not be tossed to the side because they are “a thing of the past.” A fading educational requirement that has no place in learning today.

Memory skills are here to stay and the sooner you, or your child, learns them the better.

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