Remember Room to Room and Keep Your Memory in Tune

Have you ever had the experience of opening the refrigerator door and not remembering what you went to the refrigerator for in the first place? I believe we will all have this kind of experience. So you worry that you are losing your memories, losing your ability to remember from a moment to the next. Now, if you think that you are having real trouble with your memory, I advise you to see a physician. If you're reading this article because you or a loved one or someone else for whom you have concern, seems to be losing recollection, I advise you to seek medical help. But if you're someone, or have a loved one, who seems to forget things from one room to the next, this article may be for you.
I've had the experience of going to the refrigerator and not remembering what I went there for. Here is a system I have devised that I believe will help anyone get from room to room and remember why they were going there.
1. Think. Most of us are so busy that our minds become cluttered with what we must do next. So we set off for the next room to get something or do something. But as we're going from room to room some other activity impinges upon our consciousness. And so we forget what we are after. For most people this is simply it. No profound memory loss. No dementia. Simply, we are distracted by what we are planning to do after we get what we were after in the next room. So what we need to do is stop and think. Please hear that: stop and think.
2. Link. When you are stopped and thinking, you link in your mind with what you're going after in the next room before you leave the present room. For example, you're going in the next room to pick up the book you are reading because you want to sit down and read for a half-hour or so. Make a link in your mind to the book you're going after. Suppose the book is titled, "Elephants in Georgia." Link in your mind that you will find in the next room and elephant holding a huge Georgian pecan. Make the link as outrageous as you possibly can. The more outrageous the link is the easier it will be to remember. Also the more entertaining it will be to remember.
3. Blink. Then blink your eyes three times. (There is no magic in the number three; it's just that you must do this blinking consciously and one time is not usually enough to plant the blinking in your consciousness.) This blinking is only a matter of emphasizing what you are about to do, go into the next room and retrieved the book you want to read. It's "taking a moment" to cement in your mind the thought you have linked you made to that thought.
Try this method. It works for me. Let me know how it works for you by leaving a comment.