Helping NHS GP Surgery Practice Managers Believe They Can Free Up An Hour A Day

One of the great things about being invited to speak to different companies, organisations and associations is that you get to appear on stage at some pretty amazing venues. You also get to sample the delights of some very interesting and varied venues. In my career I have spoken at, amongst others, Aintree, the home…

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Mnemonics – How To Remember The Essentials of Copywriting

I am always looking for examples of how people use mnemonics and I have found a really good one from the internet marketing fraternity. A mnemonic is an “artificial way” of remembering something. When you remember something just because you remember it you are relying on natural memory and recall.  When you need to do…

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Remember it is Star Wars Day – May the Fourth be With You

Happy Star Wars Day.  Sadly not a bank holiday yet but maybe with enough campaigning we can get the government to recognise this important day.  I mean after the last census here in the UK, enough people put “Jedi” as their spiritual bias that it is now officially a religion. In my opinion Star Wars…

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My Latest Memory Challenge

Let me share with you my latest memory challenge. I am going to Ukraine in the summer as part of an Aikido Summer School. My teacher, sensei Kolesnikov is from Ukraine and he returns there every couple of years to teach his Aikido Students. I met a few of them a couple of years ago…

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Remembering Babies Names – 7 Things To Do If You Have Forgotten

The other day I was sat in my office pontificating on some aspect of memory improvement, I forget what it was now (oh if only I had a £1 for every time someone cracked a joke like that at my expense ) and the phone rang. When I answered it I could hear the faint…

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Ginkgo Biloba For Memory Improvement – Yes It Works, No It Doesn’t, Yes It Does – Who should You believe?

Have you ever heard someone back up some argument with “well research has proven that….” Now I used to be impressed by those sorts of statements because I thought they had done their own reading around the subject and of course if research has proven that… (whatever “that” might be) then it must be true.…

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Mind Mapping Skills – Helping PhD Students Understand This Powerful Thinking Tool

Today I have been helping some PhD Students from a major UK medical research charity understand the power of Mind Mapping. There are two ways to look at the way I share what I have learnt with others. The first way is by looking at particular problems I have solved for myself and for others…

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Happiness and Memory…

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory…” Ingrid Bergman

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Amnesiac’s Answerphone Message

Brrrrrrrring…….. Brrrrrrrring…….. Click….. Pause…. I can’t come to the phone now because I have amnesia and I feel stupid talking to people I don’t remember. I’d appreciate it if you could help me out by leaving my name and telling me something about myself. Thanks. Beeeeeeeeeep……

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Amnesia Joke

What are the three best things about having amnesia: 1.   You can hide your own Easter Eggs 2.   You meet a new person everyday 3.   You can hide your own Easter Eggs

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