21 Day Follow Up
It's widely stated that it takes 21 days to make or break a habit.
Follow these simple exercises as a follow-up to your memory training workshop, for the next three weeks, and you'll be amazed at how quickly you move to the unconscious competence stage of learning!
Most people spend 5 to 10 minutes on each follow-up lesson.
The exercises will help you strengthen your skills with names, work related items, time management and personal development.
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In addition to a daily email reminder, your 21 Day Follow-Up emails also come with free bonus video clips:
- Over 100 minutes of bonus video memory training with Eric Plantenberg
- Additional techniques and tips for remembering names and spouse's names
- How to remember the 5 characteristics of an effective goal
- Advanced "to-do" lists
- How to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
- How to remember dates and events
- The order of winning poker hands
- How to remember the Presidents
- How to remember the food pyramid
- How to remember the states and capitals
- Acronyms and acrostics
- How to remember recipes
- The characteristics of a great attitude
- Cures for absent mindedness
- Advanced topics in giving speeches
- Instant access to our Name Search Database to help you identify an image for the name
- Instant access to memory experts to answer all of your questions
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Download and Listen to the Maximum Performance CD
(1. Right Click 2. Choose "Save Target As")
Day One
Take a couple of minutes at the start and end of your day to review your tree list by carefully picturing each item in order. Be sure to "vividly visualize" each one.
Create a "things to do list" before you leave for work this morning and file it to your body files.
Day Two
Start your day by filing your to-do list to your body files again. List five of your closest friends and turn their first and last names into images. When you've done that, picture them in your mind and "glue" your new images to their face or upper body with action.
List five terms or items that are important to your business and practice turning the words into images.
Day Three
Review the images for your friends’ names from yesterday
Create a "desk list" with five to ten files from your desk area at work
To begin to use your memory skills with time management, turn the 12 months of the year into representative images. For example, December might be Santa Claus. October might be a Jack-o-Lantern.
Day Four
Review the images you developed yesterday for the months of the year
Make a list of five coworkers and turn their first and last names into images. Then mentally glue those images to their face or upper body. Also, create a chain of visualization tying the images together in the proper order.
Your current tree list has representative association images for the numbers 1 through 20. You will often want to use images to help you with calendar issues. Turn numbers 21 through 31 into representative images and add them to your tree list.
Day Five
Mentally review your expanded tree list.
Review the coworkers' name images from yesterday.
Create an "office list" like your house list, with 25 files.
Day Six
Mentally review your new office files.
Expand your time management skills by turning the days of the week into representative images.
Make a list of as many men as you can think of who have the name John and practice turning their last names into images. Glue the entire image to each of their faces with action.
Day Seven
Review your images for the days of the week.
Expand your house list to 40 to 50 files by adding 4 to 6 rooms. List as many women as you can think of who have the name Mary and do the same exercise as yesterday's John exercise.
Day Eight
Mentally review your expanded house files.
Pick a client or coworker and file 10-15 things you'd like to remember about them to the files of your choice.
Review your "Johns & Marys"
Day Nine
Ask five friends to name their favorite celebrity. Then practice your name skills by turning the celebrity names into images and mentally filing those names to the celebrity's face or upper body.
Review your client/coworker list that you created yesterday
Turn an important personal appointment into a picture using your Month/Day/Date images.
Day Ten
Page through a news or entertainment magazine and spend time studying faces, picking out the unique facial features of the people pictured.
Take the 50 item challenge. Have a friend make a random list of 50 items and then slowly read those items to you. Instruct them to read the item twice and wait for you to say ok before they move on. File the items as quickly as you can to your new expanded house list. How did you do??
Day Eleven
Read a work related article in a newspaper or magazine and file the main points to your office files as you read. When you are done, pull out a sheet of paper and write a summary. You'll be surprised at how much more effective this is for retention than taking notes AS you read.
At lunch time, create a shopping list for yourself whether you need to or not. Make it a point to create the list now and shop after work. Notice how well you can still remember the items you put on your list several hours earlier.
Day Twelve
Pick five names at random from a telephone directory and turn the first and last names into images and chains of visualization.
Part of time management skills is to understand the relative importance of tasks. Create mental images for,"must do", "should do", and "could do" and begin to incorporate them into your daily to-do lists.
Day Thirteen
Turn an important work related telephone number into a chain of visualization. Remember to chunk when you can!
Page through a magazine and find images of people you don't know. Turn their names into representative images and glue them mentally to their faces. Save the magazine for tomorrow!
Call a friend tonight and as you talk, file the interesting parts of your conversation to your body files. When you are done, jot down what you remember about the conversation.
Day Fourteen
Review yesterday's telephone number chain and do another today! Make tomorrow's work related to-do list before you leave the office and file it to your desk files.
Turn five customer or vendor names into representative images and glue them mentally to the person's face or upper body.
Day Fifteen
Review yesterday's names and phone number.
Try to turn coworker's extension numbers into images that you can file as a story starring them! It can save you loads of time that you would normally use to search the extension list.
Watch the first 10 minutes of the news tonight and file the story topics to the files of your choice. When you're done, see if you can remember them all. If you're brave and you're watching anyway, try to remember the whole show!
Day Sixteen
Starting today, you should set aside time at the end of your day to turn any new people you meet into images. Remember to review again the next day and a week later to ensure long-term recall.
Do you have something important for a coworker to remember or learn? Before telling them, turn it into a image or chain of visualization. Then tell them, teaching them the picture or chain to help them lock it in to their recall.
On your way home today, create a 10 file car list.
Day Seventeen
Today on your way to work, file your to-do list on your new car files. Pick a product or service that your company offers and create images to help you remember the features and benefits.
Pick three words that you'd like to add to your vocabulary. Using the rules for changing abstracts into images, create images that incorporate the definitions of the word, just like we did in the workshop!
Don't forget to work on today's new names.
Day Eighteen
Review your product/service from yesterday.
Look at next week's calendar and create images for each day and date, filing important tasks to each.
Turn the birthdays of five close friends or relatives into images and imagine gluing those images to their upper body.
Don't forget today's new names.
Day Nineteen
Get to know a coworker that you don't really know and file the personal details you learn about that person to THEIR body files. Tomorrow, make it a point to ask them about one of the things you remember, to show your interest.
Pick up a magazine and "memorize" the table of contents by tying the story topic and page number it's found on together with a picture. Have a friend quiz you when you're done. (If you play your cards right, you might even get a free lunch out of it! Hint hint.)
Don't forget today's new names.
Day Twenty
Today when someone at work or home asks you for help, think of a way you can use your memory techniques to help them learn or remember whatever it is they need help for.
Organize a project by creating a master list of tasks. Turn those tasks into images and file them to your office or desk files.
Don't forget today's new names.
Day Twenty-One
Turn a couple of very important policies and procedures into mental images to help you remember them accurately.
Take yesterday's master task list and give each task a deadline. Turn the deadline into a image and use that as the permanent file for the picture of the task.
Read an encyclopedia article on a foreign country that intrigues you. File as much information as you can as you read to the files of your choosing. When you are done, have a friend or family member quiz you on the article. You'll be amazed how much you can remember from one read through if you're filing as you go!
