I remember you well… umm….

Frankly speaking, I am a kind person who easily forgets someone’s name. Better for me to remember a place name, streets name, a location, even a map rather than my class mate in junior school or my new colleague’s name. Well, I take it easy all my life for this but sometime I really need to remember someone’s name directly and correctly… so today I decide to seek the solutions.

I got an article which is written by Kate Lorenz for CareerBuilder.com (that I should thanks her for the tips). The title is Seven Tricks to Remembering Names. It sound simple.. only seven tricks then taraa… I remember everyone’s. Well if you want to know it sort of…

Be interested, because at the moment they are introduced, actually many of us don’t even catch that.. because for me *umm … I think I little bit focused to my self *

Verify what she or he wishes to be called

Picture the name written across their forehead, It is interesting to know that Franklin Roosevelt continually amazed his staff by remembering the names of nearly everyone he met. According to Kate Lorenz his secret is He used to imagine seeing the name written across the person’s forehead. This is a particularly powerful technique if you visualize the name written in your favorite color of Magic Marker. So next time if you see me, you are allowed imagining my name written across my forehead.

Imagine writing the name, to take step three even further, neural linguistic programming experts suggest getting a feel for what it would be like to write the name by moving your finger in micro-muscle movements as you are seeing the name and saying it to yourself.

Relate the name, it suggested to associate a person’s name with a familiar image or famous person or something that usually identical to him or her. For example, I will imagine Richard with Richard Gere, or I will imagine my sist with the poem because if you see her blog you will find her lovely poem.

Use it frequently, try to use the name three or four times during your conversation. Use it when you first meet, when you ask a question and in your departure.

Record the name in a “new contacts” file.

Thinking of it, I will start to use those tricks especially for the first trick. This is another problem of me, paying attention more intensively to catch the other’s name right after introduction.. Otherwise I have to pretend that I get what they have mentioned.. That’s so so very tired right?