How to Avoid1 Forgetting如何避免遗忘

It’s easy to forget things when you are busy， but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating2. Don’t worry. There are lots of things you can do to improve your memory.

Keep a daily to-do list. Keep a small notepad and you can write down tasks thatneed to be done. If you are in the middle of something important and get interrupted3， writing down what you need to do later will help you remember.

If you have so much going on and you’re forgetting things， just do what you reallycare about. If you clear those unnecessary things from your life， you’ll have morespace in your mind to remember things more important to you.

Keep a calendar4 on your cellphone or in your bag so you can update5 it as you go.

Write a note and place it where you always look， such as near your computer screen6， on the refrigerator， or on your bathroom mirror7.

Set alarms on your cellphone， watch， or another things to remind8 you of importantthings.

Get into the habits of helping you remember things. Try picking something youalready do every day as your reminder. For example， let’s say you pick out yourshoes for the next day before you go to bed. Use this as a cue9 to put your homeworkinto your schoolbag.

You may put something off because it will take a long time， isn’t fun， makesyou worried， or not important. At last， you forget it. Find out what you keep on “forgetting”because of procrastination10. When you understand what starts procrastination，it will be less possible for you to forget about them.

当你忙的时候很容易健忘，但这还是让人对健忘这件事感到沮丧。别担心，你可以做很多事来提高你的记忆力。

写一份每日待办事项清单。准备一个小记事本，你可以在上面记下需要完成的任务。如果你正在做重要的事情时被打断，写下你稍后需要做的内容会有助于记忆。

如果你有太多事情要忙，你会忘记一些事情，那就做你真正关心的事情吧。如果你清除了生活中那些不必要的事，脑子里就会有更多的空间去记住对你来说更重要的事。

在手机或包里放一份日程表，这样你可以随时更新进度内容。

写一张便条，放在你经常能看到的地方，比如电脑屏幕附近、冰箱上或浴室镜子上。

在你的手机、手表或其他东西上设置闹铃来提醒自己要做的重要事项。

养成促进记忆的习惯。试着选择你每天都在做的事情来提醒自己。例如，假设你在睡觉前挑选出第二天穿的鞋，作为把作业放到书包里的提示。

你可能会因为有的事需要很长时间完成，不太感兴趣，让你焦虑或认为不太重要，而去拖延。结果，你完全忘记去做了。找出你因为拖延而总是“忘记”的东西。当你明白是什么导致了拖延时，你就不太可能会忘记了。

（英语原文选自：wikihow.com）