Self Help
 
Consider:
A man ventures off to take on a new career. Now he takes on the career he feels fresh and ready to go. Later down the road, the person begins feeling frustrated, angry, and ready to move onto another job. He hands in his letter to resign and moves onto another job. Later down the road, the man starts to feel frustrated, and feels like he is missing something. He resigns from this job and moves onto another career. This continues. Why does this continue? What is wrong? Why doesn’t this man have the ability to sharpen his short-term memory to function properly in society and in the workplace? *
 
The biggest problem here is a cluttered mind. The person is experiencing traps of the mind, as he feels frustrated, angry, and unfamiliar with his path in life. The problem is the person failed to make his goals meaningful.
 
Making your goal meaningful is the key to sharpening the mind. If you know, what you want and know what it takes to reach your goals you will have a successful road to travel. Since the goal in this situation is to sharpen the short-term memory, we can ask a few questions to help you consider your goal, the purpose, what you have to do to reach the goal, and how you can make it meaningful.
 
What do you want to achieve? What will it take to achieve your goal? What effort are you willing to put into achieving a sharper mind? Why do you want a sharper mind? You will need to learn tools for sharpening the mind, such as organized thoughts, previewing, inspiration, reciting, repeating, role-play, reconstruction, removing traps, creation of pictures, relaxation, associations, active, writing skills, reduction of interferences, attitude adjusters, and the like.
 
What does organizing the thoughts do for sharpening the mind? How will organizing my thoughts help me to reach my goal? Once I complete my goal, will I need to continue using these tools?
 
Organizing the thoughts will prepare you to face all memories that come your way. As you organize your thoughts, you are freeing up room for the mind to function properly. Once you achieve your goal, you will need to continue using the steps to keep the mind sharp.
 
What does removing traps mean? How can this help me achieve my goal? What does this have to do with sharpening short-term memory? Removing traps has everything in the world to do with sharpening short-term memory. How it works. Removing traps means that you will learn to sharpen the short-term memory by reviewing and previewing before probing into what it is you want to learn and keep in your mind. The traps are frustration, anger, emptiness, anxiety, and the like. For instance, if you want to study for a test, instead of sitting self up for a fall, you would remove the traps by reviewing and previewing the information first to prepare the mind for the new information.
 
How does creating pictures help to sharpen the short-term memory? As you draw pictures or diagrams, you will soon learn how this tool works. This sharpens the mind, since the long-term memory captures images, words, and the like through a mental processing pattern. Unlike short-term memory, which captures brief details, the long-term memory captures the entire scene through sensory.
 
Lastly, you can continue reviewing the information provided to you while asking questions to learn how you can sharpen the mind and how the tools work to help you reach your goal.
 
*Gentlemen: I am not singling you out by using a man as an example. Rather, this story is based on a person known by me who actually went through these changes. Women too will have difficulty with sharpening the mind and knowing their direction in life. I needed to clarify this, so that you men did not think I was targeting the male race. Some people may think this.

Self Improvement
 
Role-play is one of the best choices of techniques in finding lost memories. Role-play enables you to sit outside your own mind and view information from different angles through a third eye. As you learn the steps in role-playing, you will soon see areas of the mind unexposed that you may have thought you forgot. The truth is as humans we never forget anything the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth digests. To help you learn the strategies in role-playing we can consider.
 
Role-Play Scene
Picture self-sitting in a chair across the room from a friend, as the two of your stair into each other’s eyes, and picture the friend sitting upright in the chair and the friend looks remarkably identical to you. Now, think of the friend telling you something, which is a fragment of the memory you are trying to recall. As you sit there, relax your mind, and allow smells, senses, feelings, tastes, touches, sounds, words, thoughts, and the like unfold freely.
 
As you move along in the scene draw up images, visions and the like in your mind. Let the mind travel along the journey to finding your memories without interrupting. If you feel uncomfortable, try not the fight the memories coming to the front. Instead, let the memories come to you naturally. You can learn to help the memories move along freely by taking deep breathes each time you feel uncomfortable.
 
Role-playing is the process of acting out feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, acts, and so forth. If you have a hard time understanding role-play, picture self on a big television screen. You can also reverse the scene and picture someone else on the big screen television. This will help you to draw images in the mind while capturing memories.
 
Each memory that comes your way the fits in the memory you are trying to retrieve, you should immediately write it down. Writing down the memories will help you to construct an entire event sooner. Picture the characters in the scene as you role-play and think of them as someone you don’t particular know if you like. This strategy is idea at what time you are having difficult remembering faces of people. You can use the characters while searching for associating parts of the actual person you wish to remember.
 
As you move along the screen, watch closely as visualizations come to focus. Pay close attention to the visualizations and study them carefully to see if it fits or has any purpose to the memory you are trying to restore.
 
As you begin to see familiar areas of the memory, concentrate, yet keep relaxing the mind so that you do not distract the thoughts pouring from your brain.
 
As you can see visualization, images, thoughts, feelings, words, actions, and more take fold as you role-play.
 
 
Some of the helpful guides that aid role-playing are self-talk, writing, repeating, reviewing, reciting, previewing, and starting over. The more you practice the better chance you will have at sharpening your short-term memory.
 
You might wonder how I am familiar with the steps and how I know it works. To let you in on a little secret, the truth is I am a survivor of amnesia my entire life. If it hadn’t been for writing, role-playing, self-talk, repeating, reviewing, reciting, recapturing, back tracking, previewing and so on, I wouldn’t be here writing this article today. While I can guarantee this strategy will work for those putting for efforts, I can say that if you have a mental disorder, I warn you to approach your therapist before role-playing. However, writing can never hurt, while particular disorders can make writing a bona fide disastrous experience.

Self Improvement
 
Visions are the power and act of seeing something clearly. It is a unique sense through visual observations that helps you to see interactions, colors and details that form memories. Visions are also articles of imagination as well as a fantasy, dream, and the like. Visions can form in many ways that help us to see inside our minds where memories rest.
 
Visions are similar to imagery; in fact, it is sort of another way to name imagery. Yet, as you produce imagery, you draw charts, graphics, pictures etc to form the images most times. You can also form imagery in the mind, as well as use your imagination to pull up details. The key to remember is that you want colors to fit the picture, details to define the picture and interactions to connect the memories.
 
Using visions can help you to grow. You can learn to envision you in the scene so that you can look at yourself at the time the memory developed. If you are searching to discover old memories, you can also use objects, such as clothing, brush, etc to bring the memory back. In other words, you can spot an object that was used during the time the memory developed to search for missing pieces.
 
Short-term memory processes smells, tastes, feels, words, actions, pictures, numbers and more. The short-term memory will store it for seconds and then the information is gone again. Yet, the information is not completely gone, i.e. the information is somewhere in the corners of your mind.
 
Let’s use a vision to see what we come up with. For instance, vision self-walking through a lovely tropical ravine. As you walk through the narrow paths about the steep sides of the valley watching the running waters rush down a gushing stream, you look off to the right and notice you standing on the other side. At the moment, you can employ your body to feel and sense the moment, capturing the site of you. Why are you standing there? What do you see in the picture with you standing on the other side? What do you feel as the waters sound in the background, and the fresh air brushes your skin?
 
As you keep visioning self in this beautiful are and watch your moves along the memory visionary drive, you will gradually start to recall details, relations, and colors in the scene. It may eventually work up to what it is that you are trying to remember. It’s somewhat hard to help someone remember something when you have no clue, what it is that you are trying to resolve. Therefore, I will provide you the working tools and you can use the tools to see if it comes up with anything for you.
 
Another good idea for coming up with memories and sharpening the mind is to examine familiar pictures that connect you with the memory. Sometimes if you vision self in the picture, memories will start to flood. For instance, take out your family photos and stare at them looking for memories in the pictures. As you examine the pictures let, your mind, relax, and flow without interruptions. As the thoughts start to pour, you can jot down on paper thoughts that develop, while trying to pull those thoughts together.
 
You can cultivate memories by using visions, pictures and writing down your thoughts searching for associations as you write. The more you start writing your thoughts, the closer you will come to the memories; as well, your short-term memory will sharpen. Keep in mind that repeating and reciting are valuable tools for sharpening the memory. As well, you can use the back track strategy to sharpen the memory.