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These simple tips can make you less sabaw

Has any of this ever happened to you, or someone you know? via When In Manila 

Yes?

Well it has happened to us too, because sabaw affects us all.  Before you freak out at realizing you can be the topic of the next viral sabaw tweet, there’s some simple things that you can do to control your sabawness and hopefully avoid situations like those. We’ve scoured the internet to find some of the best anti-sabaw tips to help all of us out.

Ready?

11 tricks to beat absentmindedness from lifehack.org

 Lifehack’s Carol Morgan has compiled 11 simple tricks to help put absentmindedness at bay, and of course help you avoid sabaw.  She says that these simple things can help you change your absentmindedness, and be on point at all times.

Her simple tricks include, putting things back into the same place, making lists, setting timers, and creating a schedule all help to organize your life. All these keep to organize your life amidst all the things going on around you and all the things that turn your brain into sabaw.  Follow these simple tricks, and be one step closer to avoiding  sabaw..

Quora’s answers to absentmindedness

 Quora, a crowd sourcing platform where you can ask any question you have and have experts answer it, has over 40 answers to help you address your absent mindedness.  Different authors of self-help books and life coaches all pitch in to give their advice on how to conquer absentmindedness. With answers that range from the simple ( stop watching TV) to the esoteric (meditation) it gives you a full range of what experts have to say about avoiding sabaw moments.

Energization Exercises from Ananda 

Ananda.org is a meditation and spirituality website, primarily focused on Yoga and techniques on how to clear your mind.

Their article on energization exercises has one exercise in particular that could help you overcome absentmindedness. It involves tapping on your skull lightly all over to energize the brain. This is followed by massaging your scalp by moving your fingertips in circles on your head to actually move the scalp .

How to Stay Focused from Business Insider

Business Insider also has a list of simple tips to help you keep your focus. While some of the tips are variations of the tips we found earlier, there are some other valuable  tips in their article that are worth checking out

Supplement with B vitamins 

Bebrainfit.com has called B Vitamins as the “anti-stress” vitamin.  B vitamins help produce GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) that helps you fight stress and avoid being overstimulated and overwhelmed. B vitamins also help produce dopamine to help you stay focused.

Take supplements like Glutaphos (Dicalcium phosphate, glutamic acid, thiamine HCl, vit B12)! Just 1to 2 tablets after every meal, to help you achieve the required levels of B vitamins.

How To Focus In Life from WikiHow 

Self-help wiki site, WikiHow has a detailed guide with pictures on how to avoid being sabaw and keep your focus on your life in general.  Oftentimes, we get distracted and lose focus on our goals. This guide aims to get you back on track with several useful tips.

Those are just some of the resources that we could find to help get you out of those awkward (but hilarious) sabaw moments.  Read through them, and find out which ones work for you! If you can check back in with us and tell us about your experience!

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How to stop losing your keys, and start improving your memory.

Our memories are fragile things, and they’re not always perfect.  How Stuff Works gives a detailed breakdown of how memories are formed  but basically it boils down to the fact that the process of memory encoding is a complex one, from categorizing memories to creating room for new ones, a lot of things are involved when you’re creating new memories

So don’t be alarmed if you keep forgetting things, as it’s perfectly normal.  Here’s a list of things you can do that we've compiled, to help improve your memory,  

We’re sure you’ve experienced walking into a room and totally forgetting what you were doing there in the first place.  It’s almost like somebody hit a reset button, and for a good minute or two you can’t remember your purpose.

Visualize

Dr. Zaldy S. Tan, Director of the Memory Clinic at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, recommends visualizing what you need or what you want before you start walking into a room.  If you were going in to get your car keys, picture yourself starting the car and driving off before you get into the room.  Vividness is the key to boost your memory.  Dr. Tan recommends to link items you want to remember with something familiar. If  you want to get your summer clothes out of the basement, before you set out, think of yourself on the beach or beside a pool in your swimsuit. This system makes the items more vivid and therefore more memorable

Play Video Games

Yes you read that correctly, video games actually help your brain, and your memory in particular. Contrary to what your mom may be  yelling at you for years, playing video games has an actual cognitive benefit as proven by UC Irvine’s Greg Start and Dane Clemenson.  They did experiments where they asked non-gamers to play Super Mario 3D World, and tested their memory. After 2 weeks of constant playing, their subjects showed a marked increase in hippocampus function, a part of the brain that stimulates memory amongst other things.  This short video explains the duo’s findings and results. 

Use Music

When you were a child most of the really important things you had to remember were put into the lyrics of a song, like the letters of the alphabet, the names of your fingers or even how to cross the street 

Henry Roediger III, Professor of Psychology at the Memory Lab at Washington University in St. Louis explains that music provides a rhythm, a rhyme and alliteration, three things that provide a structure to unlocking information stored in the brain, with the music acting as a cue.

So it would help if you turn the things you need to remember into a short song or a rhyme, it doesn’t have to be a good one, but using music as a device definitely helps you to remember better.

Interact more to remember names

Names, while simple enough, are often the toughest things to remember.  We’ve all been in that awkward sabaw moment where you just smile and nod while talking to someone, while frantically trying to pull up their name from your memory.

Forbes gives us a few techniques to help us remember the names of the faces we meet .  All of it has to do with interacting with the person you’re being introduced to, whether it’s making better eye contact to focus on the person, asking them a question, or introducing them to someone else to make you say their name aloud - all help to create an association between the name and the face.  Interaction gives the name context and will help you remember them when you associate the name to the context when you met them.

Utilize your visual memory

Our memory is divided into both visual and verbal memory, and while we commonly practice verbal memory through rote memorization, using acronyms, our visual memory is much more powerful. This video from Memorize Academy shows us just how powerful our visual memory is, by associating words with pictures and creating a story, visual memory makes use of all your senses and creates memory landmarks in our brains to help us associate words with images we’ve formed ourselves.

Supplement with B Vitamins

Studies have shown  B Vitamins help in improving brain functions.  B vitamins helps improve  your memory, Kerry Grens of Reuters tells of an Australian study that shows that adults who have taken B Vitamins for two years showed modest  improvements in both short-term and long-term memory versus adults who did not take it.

B vitamins can be acquired through a carefully planned diet, but to help you get the needed amounts you can take Glutaphos. 

  That rounds up the list of uncommon tips to help boost your memory, if you’re looking to ace a test, Buzzfeed has 11 tips from a memory expert  that has more specific methods to help you prepare.

Memory retention is a process, trust the process, follow the tips and you’ll be rid of your sabaw moments in no time!

Have you tried any of these?  Let us know how it went for you in the comments!

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How To Beat Sabaw And Start Being Productive (Even When You Don’t Want To Be)

We’ve all had those days, days when we can’t seem to get anything right, much less get anything done! It’s either we’re too tired, or there’s just way too much work and simply not enough time to do it all.

All hope is not lost, we’ve compiled top productivity tips from the internet to help you on days when you simply don’t want to move. .

So let’s start beating those sabaw days and let’s get things done!

16 ways from Buzzfeed 

Sally Tamarkin of Buzzfeed lists down 16 extremely simple ways to be productive, without necessarily giving up things that you enjoy like tweeting, chatting, coffee breaks, and according to her, your will to live. Sally’s tips are easy to implement into your own life and only requires a little bit of effort on your end to finally get things done.  Stuff like organizing your schedule to getting the most important stuff done in the morning are things well within your reach, but give the best results on your productivity.

A truckload of tips from Quora.com on how to work smarter 

Quora is a crowd sourced platform where users can ask any question and invite experts to give their answers.  Unsurprisingly, someone asked for tips to “work smarter and not harder” and the Quora community came out in full force and gave more than a hundred uncommon ways to work smarter.  Their answers ranged from the simple (get enough rest) to something you probably haven’t heard of (use a Kanban board) that all help to get you through those extremely sabaw days.

Lifehacker shares President Obama’s productivity tips 

Being the leader of the world’s most powerful country certainly comes with a certain high level of stress and work, and you can be sure that President Obama has had his share of sabaw days and moments.  But in his eight years in office, he has compiled his own techniques and tactics that anyone, from the leader of the free world to a college freshman, can apply to actually get things done.

Nicole Nguyen’s 15 productivity app recommendations 

Buzzfeed staffer Nicole Nguyen has compiled 15 of the best productivity apps that you can install on your phone (IOS or android recommendations are included) or desktop computer to help you organize your work, keep focused and generally raise your productivity. While most of today’s current technology is designed to keep you distracted, these apps will help you stay the course and keep the sabaw away.

So there you have it -- a few articles to start you off and help you fight sabaw and achieve your goals.   For that little extra push to fight sabaw, supplement your diet with Glutaphos(Dicalcium phosphate/glutamic acid/thiamine HCl/vit B) it has B Vitamins that promote improvements in cognition and memory 

Do you have any more tips to be productive?  Just add it in the comments below!