This is a simple concept. Get a visual reference to each calender month.
Why?
Because the words for each month, January, February, March etc, don’t mean a lot to a person visually. So this exercise will help you create your very own visual reference for each month.
What’s the point?
We will use the months as visual objects in future lessons. Currently, the blogs shown at the bottom of the post are implementing this concept.
The table below shows you my version of how I visualise each month. Use any of these as you see fit. Or create your own.
When you have 12 concepts in your mind, one for each month, run through the months of the year in your mind, visualising each one. Do this occasionally throughout the days/weeks ahead and you will cement them there for good.
| Month | Convert to Object |
|---|---|
| January | I know a person called Jan, so an easy one for me. |
| February | As valentine’s day falls in February, more often than not we can visualise a Single Red Rose for our loved one. |
| March | Imagine a Marching Band. |
| April | I always think April Showers. |
| May | Simply imagine a Maypole, with its braids red, yellow, green and blue dangling from it. |
| June | For June, I use the rhyming word Dune for association. |
| July | How Do You Lie in bed? Say Do You Lie fast and it sounds very much like ‘July’. I see myself Lying on a Bed now when I think of July. |
| August | For August, I use the rhyming word Sawdust for association. The two words sound similar, so this technique works well. |
| September | September. This wasn’t an easy one for me, so I broke it down into two syllables. Sep and Tember. Still not great because they are not words in their own right. But then Sap (from a tree) and Timber (also from a tree), related in my mind to the two syllables, which gave me Sap-Timber. I can work with this. Picture sap running out and down trees in a forest. |
| October | For October, Octopus instantly jumps out at me. |
| November | November in the UK, reminds me of November the 5th. Fireworks. |
| December | Christmas time always comes to mind for me in December. I see a Christmas Tree in my living room. |
Side Note: All the concepts you learn on Memrecall will help you grow as a person. Before you know it, you’ll be creating your own concepts up to remember things. And when you do, please email them to me so I can do a blog about it. I will reference your name in the post.
