Assisting Dummies

By Otto Wynn

 When you have way too much stuff and no system of organization, you end up with a house full of clutter. It starts to choke you and drain your energy. Only a person who lives with clutter can understand why somebody would hoard their possessions, or even their “junk”. A common feeling among people, who have a cluttered house, is that they know where everything is located, and many times, they actually do! What may look like a mess to someone else seems organized to the one living that way. It is actually difficult for some people to get rid of things and they tell a friend, “On my next vacation (or days off), “I’ll help you if you help me”. It seems like such a desperate job that it looks impossible.

How do I know? Because I am planning on getting rid of most of the things in my home that have been “saved”, collected or just not thrown out for years. When your children are growing up, you tend to save things for them but usually in a more organized manner than when they grow up and move out. You are left your stuff and their stuff and lots of stuff that doesn’t get used any more. I am going to use this article as a blueprint for the way I attack my spare bedroom. I have decided that I am going to pretend to be moving and I only want to pack the “good, usable and necessary” stuff for my “new place”. That is going to be my motive and seems to be a great way to think about the extra stuff in your house once you decide to get rid of the clutter.

Do you know how to separate clutter from what is actually valuable? There are shows on television and books that have been written, that try to help people determine what they should keep and what they should discard. The television shows are interesting to me, for a number of reasons like, there are many people to help you with the process of doing and deciding and there is a monetary gain to receive once the clutter is gone. In case you have never seen the show, the television people will add new pieces of furniture that will help retain the order and the organization of the home. They strive to organize things in ways that will be easy for people to maintain.

The professionals give advice on how to sort all the stuff in your house. They say to separate all the stuff in 3 large areas designated to donate or sale, discard and keep. It is difficult for people to get rid of things that they have been “collecting” for years, especially if those items are attached to a lot of memories. There has to a limit on each thing that you handle so you won’t get bogged down in emotional memories.

If you are wondering how to start the whole process, you will need to remove EVERYTHING from a room, including clothing in the closets and furniture.

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How to Achieve Better Information Retention

By Otto Wynn

 Improving information retention provides us many benefits. One is the ability to remember daily lessons better. Another is being able to effectively apply these lessons into tasks and success. For students, there is no better time to have good memory than during exams since most exams are based on what students have remembered during the review than what you have learned in classes. For other professionals, memory becomes very useful in performing their job right.

Memory, therefore, is important in daily life.

But no matter how we put it, there are people who still lack the ability to retain necessary information. The fact is, these people do not necessary lack the “ability”. They only lack the necessary technique on how to retain information better.

The question now would be, “what are those techniques that would improve memory?”

First of all, memory techniques are not theories on how to improve memory; rather they are practical and proven methods.

There are two major ways to learn and remember: through vision and hearing.

Auditory learners - People who are inclined to remember better through their ears have the tendency to intently listen to instructions and intently retain what they hear. These people are most likely to relay auditory information to other people better or to transfer what they hear on their notes. They are also able to listen to information that is relatively unnoticeable to normal people. Auditory learners are not special though; they are just capable of learning better through their ears.

Visual learners - Visual learners posses the ability to remember vividly what they have seen. They can easily identify signs, symbols, images, directions, and written information. Visual learners make up roughly 65% of the population.

Having said these, here are the useful techniques to improve either your auditory and visual senses:

Image-Name Technique - Is helpful in remembering names. This technique is used basically to remember names with physical characteristic of a person. For example, KATIE HOLMES for “Her kitty (for Katie) is left alone in their home (for Holmes)”.

Acrostic - Is taking the first letter of each word and inventing sentence out of it. For example, to remember the G-clef notes on the sheet music (E, G, B, D, F), we can use EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE.

Acronym - Is the opposite of acrostic. The first letter of each word of a series is taken out to form another word. For example, the colors of the rainbow are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet, thus, ROY G. BIV. Another example would be Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telephase or IPMAT to remember the phases of cell division

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