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USE YOUR MEMORY
The hour, 9, translates to the letters b, p. Referring to the basic list,
you will see that the Key Word for Tuesday at 9.00 a.m. is map. To
remember this appointment, you might imagine the car you are
going to see as bursting through a giant map, wrapped in a giant
map or driving across a giant map.
As another example, suppose you have an appointment for a
guitar lesson at 5.00 p.m. (hour number 17) on a Thursday (day
number 5). The number derived from Thursday at 5.00 p.m. is
517, the word for this being leading. To remember this, imagine
yourself leading an entire orchestra with your solo guitar. Make
sure your imagination is guided by the Memory Principles and
that you can hear all the sounds, feel your guitar, see the orchestra
and the audience, etc.
You may think this system a bit cumbersome because it requires
a fairly thorough knowledge of the larger numbers in the Major
System, but this reservation can be overcome by 'rotating' the
hours of the day to suit those hours in which you have most
appointments. If, for example, your day does not usually start until
10.00 a.m., then 10.00 a.m. can be considered number 1 in your
appointment memory system. In this manner, the most important
and often-used hours in your day will nearly always be repre-
sented by only 2-digit numbers, i.e., the numbers from 10 to 100
in the Major System. As with the daily schedule memory tech-
nique, you can 'order' your week's schedules by attaching the
images, in order, to the Major System. For practical purposes, it is
usually best to start on the Daily Memory System first, becoming
skilled and familiar with it, and then move on to the Weekly
Memory System.

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