Have you ever tried going to a room and then you completely forgot the item that you are supposed to get? Or have you been talking for quite a while with someone but his or her name has slipped your mind? Or perhaps you have seen someone familiar but just can´t recall who he or she is.

It all sounds common to most people and there are many methods you can use to improve your memory power.

A person´s memory is categorized into three parts—imprint, retention, and then recall. Imprint talks about any piece of data that you prefer to keep in your memory bank. Retention, on the other hand, is the intensity of the information which makes it truly memorable or worth discarding.

And the last is recalling which talks about your mind´s capacity to recollect that piece of information. If any of these components fail, then the end result would be memory loss or memory lapse.

Therefore, take note of these tips on how to improve your memory.

1. Pay enough attention. If you put in less attention on certain information, then chances are it will be easily discarded by your memory and will not be imprinted in your memory bank. Usually, those things that interest you get most of your attention and that is why they are best remembered.

2. Associate or relate one piece of information with another. Physical association generally helps in recalling things. It helps if you can associate a picture with the object or person you want to remember. Our brain works better remembering pictures rather than letters and numbers.

3. Get adequate rest. Don´t deprive yourself of rest and sleep. When the physical body and the brain are overworked, the tendency is for all these to become less attentive. That is why students should be adequate sleep before their examinations. Never burn the midnight oil the night before your examinations.

4. Oxygenate and hydrate. Memory loss is mainly prompted by the lack of water and oxygen in the body.

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Subliminal psychologists

Persuasion is an art form that not many people have mastery over; often many try to apply what they know of the art without really understanding the concept, and more often than not they fail in their endeavours. This is not a by line to begin your course to tricking people into believing what ever you want to them. This isn’t mind control. This is using the faculties that you already have on hand and some nuances as well as a good sense of perception to see change in behaviours and predict what people are feeling. The messages that you exude - even something as basic as your posture affects people on a subconscious level - and can actually influence people to see your point of view - in layman’s terms; how to persuade people using covert subliminal signals.

One of the most important subliminal signals is posture. These are the messages that you deliver to someone even before you open your mouth. Your posture can spell confidence, arrogance, a happy disposition and can make you see either open, friendly, successful and confident or even closed off and unfriendly. By posture alone a person can assume what kind of a person you most likely are, and based on their perception of you they can already decide if they want to listen to you in the first place. Putting your hands in your pockets, keeping your chin up and stiffening your body gives the impression that you are arrogant, closed off, think highly of yourself and unfriendly. An open face, relaxed posture that is also confident might make people think you are successful and used to a thriving life.

What about clothes? You’re right. What you wear and how you wear it is also a powerful subliminal suggester that can be used in the whole mixed bag of persuasion. Imagine a confident person who is dressed well - dressed in a way that gives the impression that he is a neat, well kept and successful person. This lets most of people’s guard down, opens the mental state of people for greater acceptance and be easily persuaded.

The last aspect of this bag - while not limited to is of course the speech factor. Words are extremely important and the implicit and explicit things you say can influence anyone and give you the power of persuasion. In order to make this work, you need to be able to read people and their posture. Strategies must be changed when you see people being unreceptive to the messages. Reassess the things you’re saying, make subtle alterations to the ideas you’re trying to get across so they’ll be more receptive to them, vary the inflection in your voice and the emotions you portray.

Of course we cannot just say that this is the end of the matter. Subliminal psychologists all over the world agree that every human sense matter, and they all come into play when you try to persuade someone. Everything that you do, from what you do, how you do it, how you look and what you say, are all subliminal signals you send out to the person in front of you - signals that sculpt an image of character in their minds - character that gains you trust, trust you can use to your advantage and of course only for good.

There are two ways to improve the good luck / bad luck ratio in your life. One is to take steps to do those things that lead to more good luck. The other is to stop doing the things that cause bad luck. This lesson is about the latter. It is an examination of the actions, habits and thinking of unlucky people, so that you can learn what to avoid.

Six Things That Cause Bad Luck

1. Blaming. Blaming others - even when it is justified - is one of the most de-motivating things you can do. It puts things outside of your control and so things tend to “happen” to you even more - and sometimes these are bad things. It is fine to acknowledge that someone shares some blame for a situation, but then follow that immediately by asking yourself, “What can I do differently next time?” Put the control back in your hands.

2. Making Excuses. Really just another type of blaming, this bad-luck habit is often more subtle. For example, a real estate agent says, “I can’t sell enough homes because I don’t have the contacts that others have.” This might be 100% accurate. The solution, though - developing more contacts - is then ignored, because the real reason to say this was to justify his unsuccessful habits. Saying, “I know I can sell more homes by meeting more people and making more contacts,” is certainly more likely to lead to good luck (success) than the first statement, right?

3. Waiting For Luck. This is perhaps one of the worst bad-luck habits. Work invites luck, not waiting. While one man waits for his “ship to come in,” others are building ships. Unlucky people just wait, and let things happen - for better and worse - and so miss out on the many opportunities that are out there waiting to be seized.

4. Acting On Destructive Impulses. I met a man on his way to see if his welfare application was approved, and he proudly told me about the great cowboy hat he bought for $200. Is this an impulse control problem, or what? Is it possible his bad habits lead to a place on the welfare rolls? If this is you, by the way, don’t say anything until you read number 2 again. To overcome this bad-luck habit wait a day before taking any action that commits time, energy or money towards something which isn’t a major goal in your life. Do this until it becomes routine. Probably you’ll change your mind by the next day.

5. Not Learning From Mistakes. Want more bad luck? Just keep making the same mistakes. Want more good luck? Start learning from your mistakes. In fact, always assume that you have some role in the disasters or irritations that befall you, and look for what it is. Identify what you are doing that either causes your bad situations or makes them worse. Then change your approach accordingly. Even better, learn from other’s mistakes and you can avoid making many of your own. See how others create bad luck and don’t do those things. That is what this lesson is about.

6. Being Too Critical. If you can find fault with everything and every plan, this proves your intelligence. But how will you have any luck if all opportunities are shot down? It is good to think critically, to see the truth, and so reduce risk. The problem comes when a person sees only the risk and the flaws. For example, this kind of thinking only sees the fact that 80% of restaurants fail, but ignores the other 20%. If you want to move forward, you see the weaknesses in your plan, but to each one add, “And this is what I can do about it…” or “Here’s a better plan…”

We rarely want to acknowledge the role we play in our own bad luck…