The best way to improve your memory is to exercise your brain. Try doing a few puzzles every day-newspapers usually have a daily puzzle page, or you can buy different kinds of puzzle books, like sudoku.
Learning skills is a great way to train your brain and keep it in shape. Try mastering something new, like learning how to play a musical intrument or learning how to knit.
Brush up on your observational skills. Ask someone to collect together 15 small objects from around the house and place them in front of you on the tray. Study them for thirty seconds, then go away and try to write down all the objects you remember. Alternatively, get your friend to remove one object while you cover your eyes. Guess which object is missing from the tray.
One of the easiest ways to remember things is by repetition. The more you practise this, the faster you will memorize things. Try learning a new poem every week. Read it out loud to yourself a few times until you can recite it by heart.
Mnemonics, which are memory tools, are handy as well. The trick is to associate the information you need to remember with simple sentences. For example, you could use the sentence|”Richard OF York Gave Battle In Vain” to recall the colors that appear in the rainbow, and their order ( Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet).
Rhymes are useful for remembering too. Here is one to help you remember how many days there are in each month:
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine each leap year