Planning to Remember: How to remember what you're doing and what you plan to do (Everyday Skills)

Do you have problems remembering birthdays and anniversaries,appointments and errands?Do you sometimes find yourself in a room, and wonder why you'rethere?Do you end up doing things twice because you've forgotten you'vealready done them?Of all the memory failures that plague us, forgetting our intentions --birthdays, appointments, errands we mean to do -- is the greatest, closelyfollowed by those moments of absentmindedness when we lose track of what we'redoing.The special problem of these common memory failures is that they are failuresthat are often very obvious to others. More than any other memory failure,forgetting the future makes others feel hurt and annoyed, causing us regret andembarrassment. And absentmindedness can not simply be irritating, but dangerous.Many people think that these sorts of problems are inevitable -- a naturalconsequence of getting older, or going through menopause, or because of some'natural' personality flaw. But remembering future events, and remembering whatyou're doing or have just done, are memory tasks that, like any other memorytask, are subject to your skills. Skills can be learned.To learn or improve a skill, you need to know effective strategies and how topractice them. This book helps you understand these memory and attentionfailures, and shows you how to overcome them.As always with the Mempowered books, this fully referenced book, based on thework of cognitive researchers, helps you permanently improve your memory skillsby explaining what you need to know to use these strategies effectively andappropriately.