1) Just lock the door. Assuming you don’t have OCD or memory impairments, you won’t be having the problem this around time, because this time you locked it on purpose rather than on autopilot so you are quite certain to remember it.
As a general rule, learn to trust that things which you reliably do on autopilot (like locking doors) are done even if you don’t remember doing it. Unless you have a history of coming home and seeing the door unlocked, you are really unlikely to have waltzed out without locking it.
2) I think you’re overestimating the rudeness of the act, but if you are concerned then when you pull out your phone, just say “That’s “Anti-fragile, right? Let me put that in my phone” and proceed to put it in. Or if you know the person, ask them again later. (If you are often among an older generation that automatically associates phones with “not paying attention to me”, carry a pocket notebook. It’s flattering to note down something someone says, not rude)
3) low effort option: Make a game of tapping out a rhythm on the fridge when you close it. Close—tap tap tap. High-effort option: Put a “CLOSE ME” sticky-note on your fridge.
4) Ask the local for a neighboring establishment which is near the one you want to go to. Enter that into the GPS instead.
5) Don’t flip through notecards—just bring one note card, containing the key points. Or better yet a notebook—you’re going to want to take notes during the ensuing discussion anyway, so you might as well have one.
6) The three-segmented 45 Caterpillar is eating a 858 sandwich. You’re doing the 69 backwards—you’d think a 25 year old would be able to figure that out.
7) If it’s complicated, get a recording device and speak it in. If it’s simple, toss your socks or phone or something on the floor, and when you see it on the floor in the morning it will remind you of why you tossed it there.
8) “Hi, my name is Charlie!” He’s charming, and overweight. Ok, let’s remember him as Chubby, Charming Charlie. (This method is not that great, but I find it’s better than nothing)
9) Remind yourself that you can still salvage your score somewhat by just getting started anyway. Go through the table of contents, identify each conceptual unit, and spend a pre-set amount of time on each one, leaving a block of time at the end to come back on the hard ones.
1) Just lock the door. Assuming you don’t have OCD or memory impairments, you won’t be having the problem this around time, because this time you locked it on purpose rather than on autopilot so you are quite certain to remember it.
As a general rule, learn to trust that things which you reliably do on autopilot (like locking doors) are done even if you don’t remember doing it. Unless you have a history of coming home and seeing the door unlocked, you are really unlikely to have waltzed out without locking it.
2) I think you’re overestimating the rudeness of the act, but if you are concerned then when you pull out your phone, just say “That’s “Anti-fragile, right? Let me put that in my phone” and proceed to put it in. Or if you know the person, ask them again later. (If you are often among an older generation that automatically associates phones with “not paying attention to me”, carry a pocket notebook. It’s flattering to note down something someone says, not rude)
3) low effort option: Make a game of tapping out a rhythm on the fridge when you close it. Close—tap tap tap. High-effort option: Put a “CLOSE ME” sticky-note on your fridge.
4) Ask the local for a neighboring establishment which is near the one you want to go to. Enter that into the GPS instead.
5) Don’t flip through notecards—just bring one note card, containing the key points. Or better yet a notebook—you’re going to want to take notes during the ensuing discussion anyway, so you might as well have one.
6) The three-segmented 45 Caterpillar is eating a 858 sandwich. You’re doing the 69 backwards—you’d think a 25 year old would be able to figure that out.
7) If it’s complicated, get a recording device and speak it in. If it’s simple, toss your socks or phone or something on the floor, and when you see it on the floor in the morning it will remind you of why you tossed it there.
8) “Hi, my name is Charlie!” He’s charming, and overweight. Ok, let’s remember him as Chubby, Charming Charlie. (This method is not that great, but I find it’s better than nothing)
9) Remind yourself that you can still salvage your score somewhat by just getting started anyway. Go through the table of contents, identify each conceptual unit, and spend a pre-set amount of time on each one, leaving a block of time at the end to come back on the hard ones.