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good-by—well, associate that kiss with the letter. Make sure
that your associations are ridiculous and/or illogical.
Now, how can you be sure to mail the letter? One way is
to keep it in your hand until you drop it in a mail box. If
you'd rather keep it in your pocket, make an association
between the person the letter is going to, and the mail box.
You might "see" him sitting on top of a mail box, etc. If
you do not know the person well enough to picture, use a
substitute word as you’ve already learned. If the letter were
going to the telephone company, you would associate tele-
phone to mail box, and so on. When you see a mail box, in
the street, it will remind you to mail the letter. (After all
that, I hope you remembered to put a stamp on the enve-
lope! )
This idea can be used for all the little things you want
to remember to do. If you keep forgetting your umbrella at
the office, just associate umbrella to the last thing you do