Well, it looks like you are also having problems with your short-term memory. Welcome to my club. And, be sure that you and I are not the only ones having issues with our memory. Thankfully, I have had that problem for a while and have learned some tricks along the way that have helped. Logically, I think they can help you, also.
If you've been poking around on the Internet for a while you have had people telling you that your brain is just like a muscle. You know, back in high school we usually thought that was something of an insult. Not that it was ever said about me since I was not quite an All-Star athlete but saying you had muscle between your ears implied that there was not much brain there.
We both know that what is implied is that we have to exercise our memory in a similar way to exercising our muscle if we want either of them to grow. It's just that sometimes my memory problems were so bad I did wonder if there was only a very dense muscle between my ears.
I really was blessed in that I've never really had that problem which is frequently mentioned on the Internet about misplacing keys and wallets. Maybe it's a male thing, one of the blessings of being a male maybe, but when I wear pants they always have pockets and that's where my keys and wallet go. If I have pants on then my keys and wallet are with me. It's that simple.
I knew I had any problem with memory though, for instance, just keeping instructions straight became difficult for me. My business partner and I could be sharing our agenda for the day and she occasionally would ask me to do several things for her. Usually if it were more than two or three items or possible complications with alternate solutions then by the time she got to the end I frequently would forget a large part of what she said in the beginning.
The source of my short term memory problems is unknown. My guess is that the excessive negative stress in my life had a lot to do with it. I knew that I could not remove all of the negative stress in the short term but I knew that I had to do something about my memory problems and so, quite simply, I did.
One of the tools that I learned to use in order to stretch my mind was a simple act that anyone can use effectively. I have to admit that not being a doctor I cannot say that someone suffering a brain injury would profit from this trek as well but it sure does work for me and I suspect that it would work for a lot of other people as well.
For this trick I would simply take a photograph from our family picture album and use it to help exercise my memory. Okay, I'm old enough that I still have pictures on Kodak paper, pictures that were processed at my local drugstore. Well, if you're a bit younger or more with technology than I am you probably have your pictures in an electronic format. Rather than use the image off of your monitor I would suggest that you print out a photograph from your collection. If you can do this in color then so much the better. It will give you more to memorize if you are dealing with a variety of colors. All you are going to do is simply take a photograph that means something to you and study it for a while. I would suggest at first that you take several minutes to study the photograph in detail before you then set it aside and write down all of the details that you can recall that show in that photograph. After you become a little bit more proficient at this then quite naturally you will reduce the above time that you study the photograph before you turn it away and write down as many details as you can remember. All this does is increase the challenge for your brain which is exactly what you want to do. The more that you challenge your brain the more efficient your short term memory will become.

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