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3 Simple Tricks to Remembering.
I don’t remember anything. Having the worst memory in the world, I don’t even bother looking sorry anymore when I forget someone, or something. Didn’t call that client back yesterday? Forget to pick up the kids? Blame my memory loss, not me.
(Note: if I have met you twice before at a conference or a Meetup and my eyes give away the fact that I can’t remember you, please know that it’s not me. It’s my memory loss. I loved meeting you the first and second time. Honestly.)
To help feeble minds cobble together the thousand things that momtrepreneurs must do every day, here are 3 useful tools:
1. Voice notes.
If you’re a momtrepreneur using a blackberry (like most I know), you have access to Blackberry Messenger (or BBM). Once you’re in BBM, press the MENU key. An option called “send voice note” comes up. Click that option and you will be offered the opportunity to start recording.
Recommended use: When you’re pushing your toddler in the swing, or walking down the freezer aisle of the grocery store, and you just remembered that thing you have to do, send yourself a voice note! Long gone are the days where you had to put that ice cream down, call up an email and type yourself a long note with those thick-fingers-on-tiny-keyboard absurdities these are best ways to counterfeit memory loss.
This morning a man from a national speakers’ bureau called me and told me that after our discussion six months ago, I had suggested that he check in with me in half a year’s time. Does he have a better memory than me? Very likely. Did he spontaneously wake up today and remember our discussion from six months ago? Likely not.
Recommended use: click here to learn how to set up an iCal reminder–you can set an alarm to email you, make a sound, message you, or other ways to urge yourself back into action. You can also have a reminder set up to email you weekly, monthly, or annually. You’ll never forget your children’s birthdays again.
3. Stickies
Old-fashioned sticky notes, the new way. Download the program and start putting sticky notes everywhere. You can set different colors for the different notes, change fonts, and move them all over your desktop whenever you want. Nevermind that the background of my desktop is entirely yellow from the hundreds of sticky notes I’ve created…
Recommended use: if you need to make that list of household goods to buy at Target while on a really boring conference call, you can do it in just 2 clicks. (Note: beware that lists beget lists, and once you start posting sticky notes that remind you to look at other sticky notes, DELETE THE PROGRAM).
