3.Remember the medium sized lists. If you are attempting to remember the shopping list for an entire week’s worth of groceries, for example, you may wish to employ the “Roman room system.” Using this tool, you are encouraged to imagine a room in which all of the items on your list are strategically placed. You may wish to imagine your kitchen, for example, with its refrigerator, stove, and cabinets. Imagine yourself opening the refrigerator and seeing milk, eggs, and yogurt. For unusual items, such as chestnuts, you may wish to add an open fire to your imaginary kitchen, over which chestnuts are roasting. Water chestnuts, on the other hand, may be remembered as roasting over an open fire located underneath your sink. In your imagination there is no end to the possibilities!

4.A mental map will help you to remember not only the trip to the grocery store, but also the trip to the dentist’s office, veterinary clinic, dry cleaner’s, and gas station. Picture a town square with a tree. In this tree is a cat, while underneath it a car is parked. The car has a vanity plate with two teeth, and inside hangs some dry cleaning. If you picture this town square with this particular tree as vivid as possible, you will have not problem remembering to run all the other errands that are tied into your trip of the grocery store.

5.The fifth and final way to easily remember practically everything is the avid use of acrostics. While these little sayings may actually involve the use of pencil and paper, they are powerful indeed, and will eventually be remembered easier than the litany of information they actually contain. Simply use the first letter of each word you are trying to remember and then use these letters to make a complete sentence. “Go East Lad, Never Down” may be a very useful acrostic to help you remember the names of the first five book of the Hebrew Bible, namely, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Number, and Deuteronomy.

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