How can i improve confidence and memory power?
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10 Steps to Improve Your Memory\n\nGET ON TRACK TO A BETTER MEMORY\n\nUnderstand How Your Memory Works \n\nUnderstanding how memory works will give you insight into ways of taking control in order to increase your memory power. A summary of the major factors involved in memory functioning: \n\n• Memory is the process of registering, consolidating, storing, and recalling information and also is the result of that process. \n\n• Memory is an electrochemical process of the brain and nervous system in which specialized brain centers receive, consolidate, store, and respond to new information.\n\n• The more memory traces you amass from sensory experiences, thoughts, feelings, and actions, the more ways you have to recall a particular piece of information.\n\n• A stimulating environment makes a major contribution to improving your memory.\n\n• People learn incidentally in the process of living and intentionally through deliberate study.\n\n• New information becomes a memory by moving from sensory memory to short-term memory. There working memory creates the connections to consolidate it into long-term memory.\n\n• Memory contains two kinds of material: knowledge—both general and personal—and procedures. Procedures do not require conscious attention in order to function.\n\n\nEquip Your Memory Tool Chest\n\nNatural abilities which you can use to maintain and improve your memory are: \n\nsensory awareness\nmental images\nwords and messages\nmaking associations and connections\ngrouping \nrepetition\nrehearsal and review\nspacing\nusing memory aids as reminders\n\nSensory awareness involves collecting information from your senses to amass the memory traces which help you remember people, places, or events. \n\nMental imaging is to visualize in your mind an image of something or someone you want to remember. \n\nWords can be used to help you remember in a number of ways. Talking to yourself creates verbal memory traces. Acronyms, rhymes, or jingles may help jog your memory.\n\nMaking new connections is the process which relates new information to what you already know thereby making the new information easier to recall.\n\nSorting and grouping are ways of categorizing data to provide memory traces to aid in recall. Relationships among major groups and among the items in each subgroup create the connections which make all items memorable.\n\nRepetition helps you to hold information in your short term memory as your working memory organizes and integrates it into long term memory. \n\nRehearsal and review, both reinforced by repetition, help you to remember tasks or events that will take place in the future and to recall information or events from the past. \n\nSpacing is the practice of leaving intervals between learning sessions in order to reinforce memory traces.\n\nMemory aids are concrete reminders—notes, calendars, pill safes—which help you remember. Other people may also be effective memory aids if they have ways of remembering to remind you.\n\n\nFind the Motivation and Commit Yourself\n\nImproving your memory relies on motivation. When people are motivated, they pay attention and concentrate in order to consolidate what they are experiencing into lasting memories. When people are motivated, they often set goals.\n\nWe are motivated by seven urges which push us toward goals. These urges are: the urge to live, with goals of survival, comfort, and to find meaning in living; the urge to be free with a goal of self-determination; the urge to enjoy with a goal of happiness; the urge to understand with a goal of knowledge; the urge to create with a goal of originality; the urge to connect with a goal of love; and the urge to transcend with a goal of unity.\n\nYour goals for your memory project are determined by your goals for your life. In looking at the natural urges of all of us, you may choose to set goals related to your health or your lifestyle habits or you may decide to find greater meaning in the events an
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Join a toastmasters club.  Very good practice at public speaking, and you will gain confidence.
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firstly say to ur self that u can concentrate well ,then im sure u will do the best!!!have confidence in urself.
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well see the doctor but let me tell you the best thing you can do before hand and keep your memory in good shape buy a small notebook and keep an organizer in your purse and every time you have something in mind write it down, that way you wont forget and you keep your brain focused at all time, I already know that if you go to the doc they are going to give you pills and junk to make you think its going to work think about it, your 21 and your to young to have a problem I think you are not focusing on things, the notebook will refresh your brain and memory and after some time you will train your self to remember just give it time and don't forget to write your what to do list everyday, and little things like what people have said to you for your personal reference........ belive me Ive tried it and it works ............Dont stress out to much .........
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You should psych yourself by relaxing, giving yourself a "confidence boosting talk", you know, you can do this, you KNOW this, etc. and just walk into it with assurance. Good luck!
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Write down a number when you are going to bed. When you wake up try to remember what the number is. As you keep doing this your memory will improve. Also anything that creates new brain cells aids memory so try learn a new language. Brushing your teeth with your left hand also creates new brain cells
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Attitidue and confidence
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Practice. That's the main thing that will help. I have that problem, and it helped me to remind myself that the person I am talking to is just a human - exactly like me... absolutely no more special, and therefore should have no power to make me nervous. Another thing I do that has helped is observe people with really good social abilities. It doesn't exactly make you more calm, but it shows you more options of how to act in situations when talking to people - which over time will make you more confident in yourself as you become more comfortable with the "talents" you've learned.
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A tried and tested technique to improving self-confidence is as follows:\n\nLook in the mirror every morning and tel yourself you are beutiful, you are clever and you can achieve anything.\n\nLook in the mirror every night before bed and tell yourself that you have done your best today in everything you do and tomorrow you will do better.\n\nDo one thing each day that scares you.\n\nBe with friends that value you for who you are and remember you are a human being and as such you are special.\n\nYour family loves and values you and if you smile the world smiles with you.
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Build up self confidence by always believing in your self. Laugh at your self when you know you have made some stupid mistakes. Act a little more slowly in carrying out any activity. People will definitely see a different you. They may even rate you a genius. Good luck.
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Stay focuse!\n\nSlowly and easy does it!
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You have to use it or lose it.\nAlso, thinking games have been found to improve memory.  Sudoku, crossword puzzles, card games, etc.
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Keep using your mind, play memory games.\n\nAssociate between names, faces, objects, smell, feelings.\nTie-in your senses with the memory.\n\nYou can also try mnemonics, debeloping visual or verbal stories about waht your memorizing
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Simply put, just memorize more and more often. Look at something every day for 30 mins and chances are, you will remember it.\n\nYou can also use visual cues to memorize something. For example, if you have to go golfing, out to dinner, and buy a hat, you might think about a guy wearing a hat, swinging a golf club, with a piece of food in his mouth, then you'll remember all three.\n\nAlso, understanding is an important part. If you understand what a definition means, then you'll remember it better. Write down that definition and say it aloud just as often as you read it, and you'll remember 3x better than if you had just scanned it over.\n\nAs for diet, it doesn't really matter. Try to eat something healthy, that will get the body fuels pumping. Plenty of sleep, and you'll remember.
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talk to a friend who has already aced it, to build your own self-confidence.  Remember some of those who have already passed it.  If they did, you know you can do it.
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have confidence! and smile a lot!!
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You can improve your memory in many ways.  For your particular case it is important to know what the cause of a declining memory is.  Is it lack of mental stimulation, lack of appropriate diet, exercise, or perhaps even depression.\n\nMany of the things listed before me are good recommendations.  But the thing that you can do to make your memory stronger is to exercise it.  In other words, lift mental weights.  You could even do that here on Yahoo answers.  Find questions other people have that you would also like to know the answer to and look up the information and answer the question for that person.\n\nGood luck.