Did you ever walk into a room and ask yourself why you went in there in the first place?

Or wonder where your left your keys, or your wallet, or your watch?

Or freeze when you couldn’t remember what you were just about to say?

Or go nuts trying to find your eyeglasses only to find that you were wearing them on top of your head the whole time?

Does the title of the movie, “Dude, Where’s My Car,” remind you of every time you leave the supermarket?

Then you just might be in the right place!

My goal is to help you improve your memory and mental focus so you can stop worrying about it and get on with your life. If you’re like me, you’d like your life to be more productive and satisfying, in business and at home. You’d like more clarity in your thoughts and more energy to carry them out. You’d like to clear up any fog or cob-webs in your mind.

Well, let me tell you the good news first. After that, I’ll tell you the other good news. (I’m not here to bring you bad news.)

There are some truly helpful methods out there for you to try. Most of them do not require so much effort that they will stress you out. In fact, most of them help decreaseyour stress. That’s my goal.I’m a “recovering procrastinator” who struggles every day with mental focus. I’ve made some inroads and I think I can offer some help and encouragement to you if you would like to make progress getting more clarity of purpose and a better memory.

Productive Memory is not about “theory” or the newest “neuroscience.” You’ve probably read enough BS about “neuroscience” from people who are not scientists. Like how this or that game or herb or whatever is “based on neuroscience.” Isn’t that like the horror movies that are “based on a true story?” The only truth was that there was once somebody who made up some baloney story to scare you. (Irrelevant side note – I was actually in the house on which the “Amityville Horror” was based, long before there was ever a movie about it. It wasn’t anything like in the movie, and the only thing that scared me were the police who were patrolling the neighborhood trying to keep kids like me from getting into the house.) If we talk about neuroscience, it will be from information from real neuroscientists, psychiatrists, etc. 

This site will be about exploring some Ideas that I will offer for you to try, and for getting feedback about them, and maybe starting a discussion about what you have gotten out of them. I’ll also be documenting some of my own results, so you can compare and contrast your own experiences.
In my attempts to improve my own memory and focus, I’ve tried many things – many of which are not the obvious ones of “get more sleep, eat better, exercise more…” (Although those are certainly part of the mix.) I’d like to share them with you, for you to test them out in your own life.

Unlike many other “brain training” sites, I won’t be giving you questionable solutions that require no effort at all on your part. I’m not peddling “miracle cures” (you know – the ones that don’t work.) I’m not claiming to be a guru, an “award-winning” anything, or a “leading expert.” All I offer are things that I’ve tried that have worked for me, to greater or lesser extents. My real claim to being able to help is not that I am great at this stuff, it’s that I was terrible at it and have made great improvements.

The problem with most memory or productivity courses is that they are run by people who don’t have a clue what it’s like to be bad at those things. They know what it’s like to be good at them, but they don’t know what it’s like to improve from bad to good. They don’t know what we struggle with. They offer solutions that work (or sometimes don’t even do that) for them, but would not work for us.

Did you ever sit in a classroom, boardroom, lecture or seminar where some talking head his telling you, “All you have to do is this, and they you do that, and they you take and do this, and go and do that, then I can move this around and get that result and… on and on….?”

It’s true that so many of the “experts” just don’t get it that you don’t get it. They go too fast, don’t take your feedback into account, and just lose you. They speak “geek speak.”   I remember many frustrating math classes where they dust droned on and on, and I kept wondering, “What the hell are they talking about?” Some of the other students got it and some didn’t. Those of us who didn’t just fell through the cracks. I don’t want you to fall through the cracks. I’d like to gently guide you to some information that you can try and evaluate yourself. Let me know how you do, and what you feel about your own progress in the comments section. I hope we can establish a mutually beneficial relationship, and encourage each other’s progress.

Remember I mentioned that there would be some other good news? Here it is:
The rest of the blog will be have more actual helpful techniques.

Here’s to your finding some help and inspiration in the some of the following posts.

Yours truly,

~ Brian