1. Catch Up on Your Sleep

When you get plenty of sleep, you let your brain work more effectively at processing and storing information. But when you’re tired, you have more trouble keeping your attention focused, and your memory can pay the price.
No standard rule can tell you how much sleep you need, since the amount varies for each individual. However, if you’re drowsy during the day or require an alarm clock to wake up, you should get to bed earlier. Keep going to bed a half-hour earlier each week until you wake up before your alarm rings.

2. Collect Your Thoughts Before Bedtime

As you’re lying in bed awaiting a full night’s sleep, let information that you really want to remember run through your head. Scientists at the Israel Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have found that sleep helps the brain consolidate information, and the body’s circadian rhythms during sleep help the brain retain new facts.

3. Stick With Your Best Thinking Method

Some individuals learn facts best when they hear them. Some individuals learn them best when they see them. Others store thoughts by acting on them or writing them down.
Ask yourself which style suits you best, and use it every time. Maybe you need to hear someone repeat his name an extra time, maybe you need to write it down, or maybe you need to say it to yourself several times.

4. Give Your Memory a Workout

You can keep your memory strong by memorizing lists whenever possible instead of writing them down. While beneficial, written lists can be a crutch that reduces your ability to remember information. The next time you make a grocery list, leave several items off and try to keep track of them in your head.

5. Give Your Body a Workout Too

Sedentary individuals can sharpen their minds by getting aerobic exercise. In fact, exercise can improve some mental abilities by 20 to 30 percent. So don’t forget to get out and swim, run, bike, and move your body however you like — in fact, if you do enough of it, you may not be able to forget.

6. Get Help From Ginkgo

The herb ginkgo biloba may give your memory the boost it needs by promoting better blood-flow to your brain, allowing it to get more oxygen and nutrients. In recent research ginkgo has shown some promise in helping relieve symptoms in people with memory-robbing Alzheimer’s disease, and it may help those with mere absentmindedness too. It’s good for those of us who forget where we put our car keys.

7. Pour Your Drink Down the Sink

Since alcohol can easily get between you mind and the things you want to remember, you should cut back on drinking if you’re having trouble with your memory. While we still don’t know the exact effects of just a few drinks a day on your recall, drinking until you’re tipsy definitely puts you at risk for memory loss.

8. Pay Attention in Conversations

The accepted courtesy of looking people in the eye can benefit your memory too. When your gaze wanders from a person during a conversation, so does your attention. Thus, you’re more likely to remember what people say if you keep eye contact as you talk to them.

9. Learn to Handle Information Overload

If you have trouble remembering information because torrents of it are cascading on you from all directions, try this exercise a few times this week. Read a book with the volume on a nearby television turned up. Put the book down and watch TV for several minutes. Then, read the book, and see how much you remember from each source. Gradually, your ability to keep out distractions should improve.

10. Organize Your Surroundings, and Your Mind May Follow

Choose designed spots for everyday items like your mail, your car keys, your glasses, and your newspapers. You’ll remember where they are without having to search for them. In addition, toss out old magazines, newspapers, and other unneeded items to cut down on household clutter and distractions.

Sit Up Straight - Your posture affects your thinking process, which you can prove to yourself. First try doing math in your head while slouching in your chair, looking at the floor and letting your mouth hang open wide. Afterwards, try mental math while sitting up straight, keeping your mouth closed and looking forward or slightly up. You'll see that it's easier to think this way. So when you need to concentrate, close your mouth and sit up straight.


Regards

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Saqib Riaz(TIPO KHAN)

is't tough exercise ?