However, take heart, because you can improve your memory so that these types of things won't happen. There are a few easy training techniques that you can use to make dramatic improvements in your memory so that you never have to worry about forgetting things again.

There are several different categories for your memory. These include remembering dates and events, names and faces, factual information and lists. In each of these areas there are different techniques and tools that you can use for your memory improvement.

If you are a person that always is forgetting names, there are a variety of things you can do to help yourself remember. Many people use a common trick by associating some type of rhyme with the person's name. When you are first introduced to someone new, it is a great idea to make sure that you immediately repeat their name a couple times while you are speaking to that person. This helps you get it into your short term memory before you forget it altogether.

To make the person's name stay in your long-term memory, use a rhyme that helps you associate that person's name with something that's easy to remember. For example, "Tony" and "pony" rhyme, so you can associate Tony the person with the pony, the animal.

Sometimes it can help to match the rhyme you think of with a common feature about their appearance. This can help remember the name for the long-term as well.

You can also make a word, saying, sentence, etc., out of the first letters of a list of things you need to remember. For example, if you have a grocery list and you need to remember the following:

Lollipops Bread Chocolate Apples Ketchup

Your list becomes like so:

B read
L ollies
A pples
C hocolate
K etchup

Now you can see that the first letters in the list spell the word, "Black." All you have to remember when you go shopping is the word "Black," and you'll be able to easily remember the things that are on your list, since they start with the letters of this word.

This is a relatively easy way to improve your memory, and that and the other techniques we've discussed will help give you a good memory in almost no time. All it takes is a little practice.