There are times when verbalized repeating of names is just inadequate enough to remember. Do ask for a name card from the person or write down the name on a piece of paper three times. This method is to memorize names by visualizing pictures. It must be done as soon as possible after meeting the person.

One of the fascinating methods is to remember the names of persons by drawing a connection with the person's hobby or employment. For example, John the nurse, Mary the butcher, Joan the chef etc. It will help tremendously in reinforcing memory.

Writing down names, by far, is one of the most effective methods of remembering names, especially in a social gathering. It is an extremely successful method that does not require a lot of effort from a person. All one needs is a personal diary/notebook, pen and a name card holder. Using mnemonic devices and strategies can help in boosting memory and expanding one's mind capacity in remembering additional information.

It pays to connect names with common words that can help one to form a distinctive linkage. For example, Cherie for cherry, Bill for pills, Candace for candy etc. This will significantly enhance a person's ability to remember people's names better.

Forgetting a person's name not only embarrass but will make one cringe standing next to the person and drawing a blank look on the face. Many business plans, romantic dates and even friendships foiled because of the inability to recall names. Thus, such mistakes in a face-to -face situation can set one apart. Single syllable American names, for example, Bill, Jack, Ken, can cause confusion as these names can get blended together in the brains and easily be dismissed.

In a summary, there are tricks in remembering names. In fact, mastering just one or two tricks is already proficient enough to handle most names in one's memory capacity. The problem is that most people tend to be over immersed in themselves when names are being introduced to them. Either one is too obsessed with setting a favorable first impression or simply not paying attention at that moment. When one first hear a new name, he or she will be too emotionally or visually involved in the new person, thinking that this may help in remembering the person's name better. However, this is not true. A person's mind floats away at that crucial moment will find it extremely difficult to recall the name even seconds later. Therefore, it pays to master the tricks to safeguard one's interests.

Maintaining a cool deposition is one of the simplest methods to remember a name. The rule of the thumb is to forget about yourself and concentrate onto the others. If you try too hard in making a good impression, chances are that you won't even know who you are trying to impress, being the fact that you will get so nervous and forget the name. Thus overly self consciousness and nervousness tend to interfere with your brain and affects your memory.

Using techniques of inner monologue helps in reaffirming one's memory in remembering names. While we do not want the others to be irritated by overusing their names just to get it set in our brains, we can adopt an alternative trick. There are countless opportunities where you can actually repeat the name to yourself without saying it out. For example, when the person is talking on the phone, sleeping or even eating. All you need to do is to look at the person silently and repeat the name to yourself several times to reaffirm the name in your memory. It's as simple as that. Another effective way is to introduce someone else first before the nameless person. For example: “Have you met my business partner Jerry?” You asked the nameless person. “No, I haven't." He replied, and he introduces himself to Jerry: “Hi my name is Benedict, nice to meet you." Bingo! Now you know his name without letting him know you actually forgot it. Introducing someone else to another person you just met not only will help you remember the names better but also benefits you in building up close networks with your friends and let you take charge of the situation.

Attitude plays an important role in helping a person remembering names. One has to change his or her mindset that he is no longer bad with names. The person must have a firm attitude and determination to change his/her stigma thus change for the better. After all it only takes about a few seconds to change your attitude. Practice makes perfect. Thus practice, practice and only practice will perfect one's skills of remembering names. Honestly this is not going to be an easy task. But over time after practicing with so many methods listed above, you will realize which are the ones that are most effective for you. Remembering names effectively will help you to cross over the chasm between you and your friends/family members. This will eventually lead to an effective communication for all.

Let's begin at when it is time to go to sleep. When it is time for bed, researchers have found that taking 50-200 mg of Vitamin B at least thirty minutes prior to falling asleep will cause your dreams to be more vivid and aiding in your ability to remember them. Before going to sleep, make sure that you have a notepad and pen near so you can write down anything you remember. Before you fall asleep, make sure you make a conscious effort to remember what you are going to dream about. Tell yourself repeatedly that you are going to fall asleep, and dream and you need to remember them. This will instruct and prepare your mind to remember what you're imagining while you sleep.

Most people have a ninety minute REM sleep cycle. Some are able to wake up on their own when their cycle is complete, some people will set an alarm every 4.5, 6 or 7 hours to bring them from their cycle. When you wake after your cycle ends on your own, you will be more likely to remember your current dream than if you were awoken in the midst of it. Avoid alcohol and caffeine as this will cause your REM cycle to be reduced. The best way to remember your dream is to slowly wake on your own, or have your partner gently wake you. If you must use an alarm clock, make sure it is at the lowest volume that will still efficiently wake you, and make sure you turn it off as quickly as possible.

Never use the radio or TV to wake you and refrain from conversations as long as possible. These distractions will cause your mind to begin immediately processing the incoming noise and will make it harder to recall your dreams. Lie in bed for at least ten minutes in complete silence, trying to remember your dream, but not concentrating too hard or become frustrated. If you are unable to recall your dream, think about how you are currently feeling. What mood are you in? What do you feel overcome with? Write this in your notepad as it may help in the future to put all of your dreams together.

Another good tip to remember your dreams is to maintain a consistence sleep schedule and receive an adequate amount of sleep. If your body is aware of when it is time to sleep, it will be better prepared to recall your dreams and eventually this will become a habit. Do not become discouraged if you are unable to remember your dreams immediately or after the first few nights. Continue to do what you are doing and you should eventually be able to recall even the smallest dream with ease.

Rhyme Like you Mean it

The easiest way to remember a face is with a wacky rhyme. Find something that distinguishes the person whose name you are trying to remember, the more outlandish the better. Say, for example, the person is named George and is quite muscular. I would call him George the Forge whenever I think of him, because I think of forges and forged metal when thinking of strength. Or say you meet a woman named Mary who happens to insinuate threats. “Scary” Mary, or “Merciless” Mary are good names for her. What if you meet another Mary, though? Describe her to yourself. Does she have thin hair that doesn’t seem to stick to her head? Mary Frizz-a-lot is what immediately comes to my mind. Again, it doesn’t need to make sense to anyone but yourself, so as long as you can remember the name it is a good one.

But if it’s rude, you should probably keep it to yourself.

Break Down the Name

If a name is more than one syllable, then the roots often have another meaning. Johnson, for example, is made up of John and Son. You might interpret that as John’s Son, and create a mental image to support that, maybe the person as a baby. Michael sounds like Mike and ale, so imagine him drinking a pint of ale in front of a microphone.

This trick is based on a memory trick known as pegging. The idea is that you can associate two unrelated items together with a wacky image. Say you need to remember a grocery list of Lettuce, carrots and steaks. You would start by relating lettuce and carrots together, possibly with a cow munching on them. Or it could be a lettuce salad bowl being impaled with a carrot, then a cow smoking a carrot. The idea is that, once you have two objects linked together, you can link the second to another object, in this case the steak. Of course, with the name, you are just associating the parts of the name with the face.

Repeat Their Name Often

The first time you meet them, make sure you use their name in the conversation. This helps cement the connection between the face and the name. There are other benefits, too. People feel that conversations where the other person uses their name frequently are more personal, with a connection between people. Clearly, this is great for dating, but it is also an asset in business. Just be careful. Overusing someone’s name will have the opposite effect on the person. It won’t matter if you remember their name if they don’t want to talk to you.

Trick 1: Repitition

This is the simplest way of all to memorize a speech, and the core foundation of all other techniques. Simply repeat the speech over and over again until it is ingrained in your mind.

To help the speech stick, try writing out points onto index cards, which you read off of. Keep the points simple and brief; you know the facts already, so there’s no reason to record them. Simply mention that you should say them. As you repeat the speech, slowly start removing index cards. Keep repeating and removing until you have no cards left.

Another trick is to start with verbose index cards and phase down to simpler ones before finally omitting them all together. This lets you get the basics down while still being reminded of the material.

Trick 2: Pegs

Rote repetition is slow and tedious. By the end you’ll know the speech by heart, but you will have wasted much of your time memorizing something that will be used once in your life. Here’s a better way.

Pegging involves linking two thoughts together. Say your speech is about taking risks, with a segue about an Antarctic marathon. Peg those two things together with, say, a sky diver landing and running a marathon on the ice. While that may seem silly, you’ll be amazed at how effective it is. Ever wonder why you can remember a face, or a scene from a movie, but not a name or the name of the movie? Names, concepts, and words in general are abstract. Our mind evolved to be able to handle images through our eyes. The key to quickly memorizing information, then, is to convert abstract information into concepts our minds can grasp, and peg them together. An ice marathon is fairly visual, but you need something for risk.

Another example: say you are trying to remember a speech about dogs. There are 78.2 million dogs owned in the United States, and 21% were adopted from shelters. There are more cats, however, at 86 million. This is tricky, but doable. Maybe envision an old man proclaiming that he is 78, and owns 78 million dogs. Then pin a dog going out for a night on the town. Finally, imagine the binging dog encountering more cats than dogs at a club, and proclaiming “There’s 86 million of them!”

Trick 3: Roman Room

This last one is really just pegging done in a flexible manner. The problem with pegging is that every element needs to be related to the other, and if you forget one element in the chain, you miss everything after it. Not to mention that some things just don’t go together.

The Roman Room is a trick that circumvents that. Rather than relate things on your list to each other, relate them to a spot in your room. Imagine yourself walking through the room. Start at the front door. When you open it, what do you see? Pick the first thing and peg a fact to it. If it’s a table, imagine something sitting on it that reminds you of the fact you want to remember. Keep going like this, pegging facts to a walkthrough of your home. Then repeat the walk again. You should see the memory objects sitting where you left them.

This trick is fairly advanced, and is usually only used by mnemonic masters. But if you can learn it, then you will have a leg up over everyone else who tries to give a speech.

Have a Focus Phrase

This is simple: any time you feel yourself drifting, have a phrase that says “get back to work.” Mine is simple “Focus on your work.” but others might prefer something simpler, like “Be here.” Whatever your phrase is, associate it with getting your task done.

Train Yourself not to be Distracted

Think of your distraction as a game, or a hurdle to jump. Try training for it. go to a crowded, distracting place like a coffee shop and work on some simple, unimportant tasks. Reward yourself with coffee when you stay focused, and generously to the tip jar when you don’t. That way, you have both the carrot and the stick.

Isolate yourself

When you need to get real work done, however, your best bet is to find an environment you feel extremely comfortable in and cut yourself off from the world. This isn’t the office, unfortunately; cubicles and offices are notoriously bad for getting real work done. If you can’t cut yourself off physically, try listening to music.

Have Work Music

Play music when you work, preferably the same thing every time. Maybe make a playlist. Just make sure that the music is mostly lyric-less, as vocals will put your mind to work listening to them. Also find something that is fairly repetitive, so your mind doesn’t have to work to find patterns. I personally like Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports.”

Give Yourself a Break

A while back, a simple productivity technique emerged. It isn’t novel, but it is catchy, and it is effective. Introducing the Pomorodo technique. Named after those small tomato-shaped timers, the Pomodoro technique take advantage of structured breaks. This is the technique:

1. Set a timer for 25 minutes
2. Work vigorously for those 25 minutes
3. Write an X somewhere you will remember
4. Take a 5 minute break
5. Repeat until you have 4 X’s, then take a 15-20 minute break.

This pattern gets your mind into the habit of only getting distracted when you let it, and turns focusing into a bit of a game. Give it try, and you’ll be surprised how effective this simple technique is.

Reward yourself

If you successfully concentrate, then give yourself a treat. Otherwise, nothing. This is particularly easy if you are using the Pomodoro technique. Say you work for 7 hours a day. You could expect 10 or so Pomorodo X’s, so if you reach your goal, give yourself a treat. If it’s particualarly important, punish yourself for not making it. You get to choose.

If you try these techniques, you should be able to get your wandering, distracted mind under control in no time. Give a few try, and you will be happy with the results.

Sometimes your thoughts are scattered, and your mind is clashing from one thing to another. At that point you need to concentrate on your weak point and overcome them. Here are points to overcome your drawbacks.

• Learning mental self regulation.
• Arranging factors that you can immediately control.

Training Your Wandering Mind: Learning Mental Self-Regulation for Improved Concentration

The great skill to concentrate is a learning point. It is necessary to have enough practice whether it is about dancing, writing and typing. Do not distract these plans with medicine. For example, when you are having pain you take a medicine for relief; it acts on the body without any harm.

Concentration procedures require practice. Apparently you will notice a great change in your concentration within six to seven weeks and you surely love the way of your concentration. You should practice the following techniques as below:

• Be here now.
• The spider technique.
• Worry time.

If these plans are not working on your mind then you can choose other mental tasks of concentration, try to use them for two-three days if you find any improvement than use another valuable concentrations.

Be Here Now

This acutely simple plan is apparently the most persuasive. When you observe your thoughts wandering in off path, just say to yourself “Be here now” then blandly come back to your task. Gradually do this hundreds of times a week. Afterwards you will find a gradual decrease in divergence in some days. Be patient in your chore and keep at it, and soon you'll see some improvement in your concentration problems.

The Spider Technique

Here is another plan that sounds cleverly simple and skillful. But it is the base for concentration because it helps you to look after your concentration and not give it in drawn abilities. Here is an example which helps you to concentrate on your task: “if someone enters your room, calm your mind and do not indulge yourself with them, keep doing what you are upto.” In that way you will not lose your concentration.

Worry or Think Time

Manage your chore with some important points do not overcome your mind with lots of work which disturb your mind, and that destructive points must be keep aside.
Main points to get on are:

• Set a specific time each day for your time.
• Let the thought go, perhaps with "Be here now".
• When you become aware of a distracting thought, remind yourself that you have a special time to think about them.

Here are five points through which you can FOCUS on your work regardless of the place where you are sitting or working.

F=Five More Rules to Improve your Concentration

The world consists of two kinds of people one those who work under frustration and the others are those who want to work under frustration. But for the time being we will consider that you are stuck in the middle of a work and you want to give it up. At that time, think only about one thing that just 5 more whether it is 5 more pages of a novel or a book, or 5 more problems of mathematics or any other task.

In every field of life you have to get this rule of 5 more minutes whether it is a student life or an athlete or any other occupation. Athletes increase their physical stamina by crossing the point of fatigue in the same way you can amplify your mental resistance by crossing your aggravation point.

O=One Thing at a time

According to Samuel Goldwyn he only seems confused when he is thinking. It’s all because when you are performing assorted tasks at a time, you are not able to give attention to a single task and you get puzzled and are also not able to concentrate on a single thing. So it is better that you act upon a single task at a time and give it a starting and ending point too.

You must queue your tasks according to their priority and than start performing them. The most important one should be done first and then so on.

C= Defeat Procrastination

Procrastination is basically delaying your work without any reason. R.D. Clyde once said that it is amazing that we want to know that when a task will be completed while we are not working on it.

If you delay a work without any reason than it is only your laziness and you are increasing the burden of your work, as if you will not complete it how is it possible that it will be completed by its own.

So, the next time whenever you are thinking of delaying something keeps 3 questions in your mind: 1. Do I have to postpone it? 2. The next time when I will be doing it will it be easier? 3. Do I want it to be completed as soon as possible so that it is no more on my nerves?

U= Use Your Hands as Your Blinkers

We can actually do a number of things at a time liking driving a car and at the same time talking to a friend. But at the time of our study we need to completely concentrate on our text book rather than the surrounding area. So the best thing for doing this is just make the cups of your hands and place it around your eyes, by doing this you will have a tunnel look and all the other visions will be blocked and your eyes will be on the text book. This will block the other visions and you will not ponder about them.

S= See as if for the First or the Last Time

If you are sitting at a place and your mind is not present there than just simply look around the room keenly and focus on the things. After a while you will realize that you are seeing this thing for a very first time in your life.

And keenly look at your loved ones whom you always take for granted. This will Velveteen Rabbit the world around you and will come to life in your mind.

Nevertheless, as we all know memorizing speeches is not easy it takes a great deal of time and effort. However, we can improve this by learning few principles that can help us in memorizing speeches in one month, one day or one minute.

1. Memorization works with existing cognitive structures: In other words, remember things by relating them to the things you already know.

2. Memory is aided by interest: If the topic of your speech is from of one your interest then it will be easy to memorize it.

3. Spaced repetition leads to memorization: Try to learn the speech in portions and repeat each portion with few breaks and then repeat the whole speech and doing this with few breaks in between.

Speech Memorization in One Month

This is the best possible period to memorize a speech but it is very unlikely to have this much time but this principle can be use for any speech when you have one week or more to memorize your speech.

Principle 1: Existing Cognitive Structures: As you have, a lot of time to work with you can start by creating a very general and broad outline for your speech. Then memorize it by learning it through repetition. In addition, each day add few details to this outline and learn it. If you fallow this step, you will see that in few days you will remember the speech like the back of your hand.

Principle 2: Interest: If you face some problem in memorizing your speech while using first principle then try to make your learning environment interesting and try to stay active while learning like you can walk while learning. In addition, this you can use your free time try to relate to the speech with the things of your interest.

Principle 3: Spaced Repetition: It is important to take breaks while learning and review the old data before moving to next data.

Speech Memorization in One Day

Despite the short time, the principles to memorizing the speech in a day is same as learn in a month.

Principle 1: Existing Cognitive Structures: As you have, one day to work with you can start by creating a very general and broad outline for your speech. Then memorize it by learning it through repetition. In addition, each hour add few details to this outline and learn it. If you fallow this step, you will see that in few hours you will remember the speech like the back of your hand.

Principle 2: Interest: If you face some problem in memorizing your speech while using first principle then try to make your learning environment interesting and try to stay active while learning like you can walk while learning. In addition, this you can use your free time try to relate to the speech with the things of your interest.

Principle 3: Spaced Repetition: It is important to take breaks while learning like in morning learn something then take a nap and then wake up and start by reviewing the old data before moving to next data.

Speech Memorization in One Minute

If you only have a minute or two to remember your speech, only one thing could be done

Principle 1: Existing Cognitive Structures: Use something that you already know and create a general structure for the speech and relate it to all the things around you and your interest.

The best way to remember the presentations are putting some triggers in your presentation they may either be power point slides or any other thing which you will use in the whole presentation. These triggers will help you talk about the next upcoming point and in this way you can easily remember the points and can talk about them easily.
Here are four primary ways by which you can easily remember your presentation

1. Try to memorize your presentation or speech. But it is the worst technique for remembering a presentation or a speech because you will forget the speech within an hour and if you attending the 3 hour long seminars you will not be able to memorize the long speech or presentation.

2. Read the full written version of the speech as mostly the people write the full version of the speech but while reading it they seems unnatural and sound stiff.

This technique is mostly used for the business purposes where the presentations are read out in front of the board members but they apply some methods due to which the sound natural. Apart from this the presenter must also have a business tone.

3. The third technique to remember the presentation or the speech is the notes. Notes are basically the important points that are highlighted in your presentation or speech that are jotted down on an extra sheet. These notes help you emphasis on the main points of the presentation or the speech. But if you are supplied by the notes it does not mean that you don’t have to work hard you have to work hard to elaborate the points.

4. The last technique is the usage of images as your notes. Show these images to your audience and then give a brief story about the image. Apart from this the images also speaks and the rest of the story will be defined by the images themselves. Apart from this you can also make an outline which will help you remember the key points and later you can easily speak on them.

You can also create the mental images that will help you describe and memorize the point.

Following the above points you can easily remember all kinds of speeches and presentations and can deliver them easily but while delivering keep one thing in mind that you don’t have to feel uncomfortable on the stage or shy.
You can try all the above mentioned techniques to remember your speech or presentation but in all the above mentioned techniques triggers are important as triggers are quite helpful in memorizing the speeches and the presentations irrespective of the lengths of the speeches and presentations.