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more success if you can begin to recognize your cues of the
bad habits.

Of all good habits engineered, one of the most common is
to eat and lose weight wisely —while maintaining a beneficial
nutrition program. Researchers found those most successful ate
breakfast every morning; their cue. Most important was the reward
phase, like the swimsuit they wanted to fit into by summer, or
the pride felt seeing that arrow on the scale drop a little more
each day.

Though it can take two months to get there, when cultivated
properly good habits become natural.

Six Quick Memory Training Tricks
As millions of people move into middle age and grow older,
many experience age-related changes like forgetfulness,
difficulty concentrating or misplacing their car keys from time
to time. Many are looking for brand-new strategies to help
them improve their ability to learn and remember what they
just learned.

Some people work on improving their brain power by taking a
class, working difficult crossword puzzles or learning to play a
musical instrument that requires concentration and focus.

The benefits of protecting our brain’s health as we age are
endless. Here are six exercises you can do to help boost your
ability to learn and remember.

• Pay sharp attention to what you want to
remember. You can’t remember something new if
you’re multitasking and are distracted. Did you know
it takes only eight seconds or less to process a new piece
of information and code it into your brain’s storage
system? But you can’t do that if you aren’t paying
attention to that brand-new information you want to
retain.

• Write down what you’ve learned. When the new
information comes out of the tips of your fingers either

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