Keeping all your ducks in a row: the seven habits necessary for remembering your priorities.

Hello again dear reader.

I'm sure at one point or another throughout your life. You have heard the phrase "get your priorities straight." Or even "get all your ducks in a row." Well, dear reader, getting all your ducks in a row is what today's conversation is going to be all about. Had several conversations recently with individuals whose opinion I value greatly. However, these individuals seem to have trouble sorting out their "priorities" from their dreams and desires or as my granddad would say "they have trouble putting first things first." Keeping your priorities straight, dear reader is one of the keys to life; and I think often times when people are not satisfied with how their life is progressing. It's because they have forgotten their priorities. So in order to help you avoid this same pitfall, dear reader, today's conversation will discuss the seven habits necessary for "keeping your priorities straight, or your ducks in a row."...






Habit #1 — “Be Proactive” — is about changing your mindset from someone who is acted upon to someone who acts. It’s about reminding yourself that you are in charge of your life and how you respond to it.
Habit #2 builds off of the first. It instructs you to marshal the power of personal agency and “Begin With the End in Mind” — the “end” here being nothing less final than the grave. When you look back on your life from your deathbed, what do you want to see and how do you want to feel? Once you know that, you create a personal mission statement based on timeless principles and your own core values that helps you develop and practice these “eulogy virtues.”
Habit #3 is where the rubber meets the road.
As Covey argues, Habits 1 and 2 are about personal leadership — figuring out where you want to go and what you want to do in life — while Habit #3 is about personal management. It’s about taking the big picture, the abstract, the idealistic, and turning them into the day-to-day, the concrete, the practical. It’s about taking external actions that match your internal convictions.
As Covey puts it, “While leadership decides what ‘first things’ are, it is management that puts them first.”

Big Rocks vs. Small Rocks

In Covey’s book First Things First, he fleshes out this habit even more and introduces the analogy of big rocks vs. small rocks.
Imagine that you have a pile of sand and small rocks, a pile of big rocks, and a jar into which you must put both piles. Let’s say you filled the jar first with the sand/small rocks; you might find that they took up so much space that you ultimately didn’t have room for the big rocks. But, let’s say you instead first filled the jar with big rocks, and then put in the sand and small rocks; the sediment will settle in the cracks of the big rocks, allowing you to fit everything in from both piles.
Your life is like the jar. The small rocks are the urgent, but less important things in your life — the endless to-dos and fires to put out. The big rocks are the most important things in your life: activities that don’t have hard deadlines but help you achieve your principle personal, school, and work goals, as well as your overall mission as a man. Big rocks concern spirituality, health, relationships, and professional purpose — the things that ultimately develop the eulogy virtues.
When you tackle life’s “big rocks” first, you end up having time for everyday life maintenance tasks, as well as for relaxation and fun. But when you put the small rocks — the merely urgent or meaningless — first, the more important things in life get crowded out. Your life can simultaneously feel both super busy and frustratingly stagnant; your days feel crammed, but you don’t seem to be making any progress on your goals, and in becoming the man you want to be.
So we know why it’s important to put first things first, but how do we do it? What are the best “management” practices to help us properly order our priorities?

Frontloading Your Life, or, You Are Your Morning Routine

Habit #3 is the one I’ve previously written about more than any other, and I could simply re-take you through the two practices Covey recommends for its implementation, and that I’ve already covered in-depth: sorting your tasks into a 4-quadrant decision matrix and planning your week.
I’ve found both of these practices really helpful in my own life, but, to be honest, my weekly planning tends to be somewhat sporadic, and I don’t typically think of the decision matrix on a day-to-day basis.
So, while the practices are certainly useful, I don’t think the great majority of people will even try them, much less stick with them. They’re a little involved, and basic human nature being what it is, they’re hard to permanently incorporate into your life.
Therefore, I instead want to strip things back to the very basics, and suggest an approach to living this habit that’s both crazy accessible and crazy effective.
I’m going to do that by treating the maxim of “first things first” quite literally.
If you want to make sure you accomplish the most important things in your life, then you need to literally make them the first things you do each day.
You need to make your big rocks part of your morning routine.
How do you decide what tasks you need to schedule for first thing in the morning? It comes down to an intersection of your personal purpose and a line of dominos. Here’s what I mean, using my own life as an example.
First, think about your purpose. It can look something like this:

• Strengthen my relationship with the universe (or God, if you prefer)
• Be the best possible husband (boyfriend or partner or whatever label you prefer)
• Create content that improves men’s lives
• Increase my physical strength

Okay, so I know my priorities, my big rocks. So then the question becomes, of these planks of my purpose, how should their practice be ordered, at least in terms of my daily schedule? And that’s where the dominos come in.

In looking at the practices attendant to your purposes, you want to ask yourself: “Which of these, if I complete them first, will facilitate the completion of the others?” If your day-to-day tasks are like a line of dominos, then you want to carefully choose your very top priority — the domino that will sit at the front of the line — as one which will successfully kick start the energy that’ll send one domino into another (this is an idea inspired by Gary Keller’s The One Thing).

So in my own life I know I’m not going to be able to do anything else very well — work or relationship wise — unless I get my mind right. Creating a mindset of calm, centered focus is thus my first, first thing. It’s foundational for everything else. It’s my first domino.
What that means practically is that the very first thing I do when I get out of bed each day is to engage in a set of mental and spiritual exercises: I pray, read my scriptures, meditate, and do an exercise from the Foundations of Well-Being, which I’ve found helps mitigate my tendency towards depression and irritable moodiness.
When I say I do this first thing in the morning, I mean that quite literally; I used to first check my phone when I woke up, but I found this set my mind up for a day of triviality and distraction. Sometimes I got lost on my phone, which ate up the time for my mental/spiritual exercises; or I saw something that affected my mood, so that even though I still did the exercises, they were less focused and effective. It just made me generally twitchier that day. Now, I don’t touch my phone until my mental/spiritual exercises are done. I have to say, this small, simple change has been absolutely game-changing. First things first.
My spiritual/mental exercises set my mind right for everything else I’ll do that day, including the next step in my morning routine: my workout.
My daily workout is not only enhanced by the mindset exercises I do beforehand, but further enhances their effect — strengthening the positive, confident attitude with which I approach the day. There’s nothing like hefting pieces of iron to leave you feeling sharp and grounded. It ensures that the momentum of the falling dominos continues on.
Once my morning routine is over, and I’m feeling both centered and energized, it’s time for work. Within my workday, I utilize the same principle of first things first: I tackle my most important tasks at the start of the day, knowing that if I do so, I’ll not only have ensured that the most value-creating things get done, but that I’ll be able to fit the “urgent,” smaller rocks in later.
My morning routine sets me up for workday success, and the continued employment of the “first things first” principle ensures that the workday is productive.
Of course I haven’t directly tackled any relational things yet — anything related to my purpose as a husband and father. But the fact that my mood is positive, and that my workday has been productive primes me to bring my best self to these roles. The fact that a healthy mindset will improve my relationships is obvious, but having accomplished what I needed to with work goes a long way too. When you spend the day dicking around, once more letting the hours slip away from you, you feel terrible — restless and irritable. You not only infect your family with these negative vibes, you may also only give them part of your attention, as you try to catch up on work on your phone. But when you spent your work time well, you can disengage from work mode without guilt, and immerse yourself in fully present play.
How you start your day will be how you end it, and as days become weeks, which become years, how you end each day will ultimately be how you end your life. You are your morning routine.
So frontload what’s most important to you in the a.m. Put first things first.

The forgotten wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, it's definitely worth remembering.

Hello again dear reader.

Today's conversation consists of bits and bobs of the lesser-known quoted wisdom of Benjamin Franklin. I found these tidbits of advice, on one of my late night adventures into the long forgotten corners of electronic libraries all over the web and was inspired to compile them here in hopes they would add to the world's collective wisdom.

 Benjamin Franklin was one of the most quotable men in history. Everyone knows his famous sayings like “God helps them who help themselves,” and “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” But his vast body of writings contains many fantastic bits of sagacity that aren’t as commonly noted. Today's conversation consists of some of my favorite, lesser known pearls of old Ben’s wisdom. Hopefully by the end of the conversation dear reader, you too will feel just ever so slightly wiser than you did prior to the conversation. Thanks to the lesser-known wisdom of Benjamin...


“If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?”
“There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.”
“After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
“To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not make you content, you don’t deserve to be happy.”
“The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.”
“Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.”
“I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.”

“Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.”
“When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.”
“Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.”
“Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.”
“A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.”
“The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.”
“He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.”
“The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.”
“The most trifling actions of a man, in my opinion, as well as the smallest features and lineaments of the face give a nice observer some notion of his mind.”
“An old young man will be a young old man.”
“By the collision of different sentiments, sparks of truth are struck out, and political light is obtained. The different factions, which at present divide us, aim all at the public good; the differences are only about the various modes of promoting it.”
“A great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him.”

“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous and you will be happy.”
“Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else.”
“I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults — if they are such; — because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” (Speech made in the Constitutional 
 Convention, 1787)
“It is a common error in friends, when they would extol their friends, to make comparisons, and to depreciate the merits of others.”
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
“There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.”
“Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.”
“Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”
“Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.”
“The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than showing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again.”

“The way to be safe, is never to be secure.”
“The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.”
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
“It is said that the Persians, in their ancient constitution, had public schools in which virtue was taught as a liberal art or science; and it is certainly of more consequence to a man, that he has learned to govern his passions in spite of temptations, . . . than to be a master of all the arts and sciences in the world beside.”
“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”
“Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.”
“That sort of wit, which employs itself insolently in criticizing and censuring the words and sentiments of others’ conversation, is absolute folly; for it answers none of the ends of conversation.”
“I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.”
“I never saw an oft-removed tree, 
nor yet an oft-removed family, 
that throve so well as those that settled be.”
“When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!'”

“It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor, when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation. Saul was seeking his father’s asses, and David keeping his father’s sheep, when called to the kingdom. The shepherds were feeding their flocks, when they had their glorious revelation.”
“If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.”
“To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.”
“Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.”
“Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”
“When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.”
“A little home well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.”
“It is generally agreed to be folly to hazard the loss of a friend rather than to lose a jest. But few consider how easily a friend may be thus lost. Depending on the known regard their friends have for them, jesters take more freedom with friends than they would dare to do with others, little thinking how much deeper we are wounded by an affront from one we love.”
“Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.”

 

How to answer three simple questions, and become a very memorable person.

Hello again dear reader,

Quite some time ago in a previous conversation, we discussed how to leave a memorable first impression. Whether you are meeting potential new friends or new business associates, today's conversation is along the same vein. However instead of trying to make a good first impression, Today's conversation is going to concern itself with making sure dear reader that you are memorable. Every time you meet somebody new to first questions they generally ask are "what's your name" "what do you do." And "where are you from" while there is nothing wrong with these questions in and of themselves. They however do not generally provide a memorable segway to establish a connection with the other person. They are generally answered, as generically and succinctly as possible. However, these three ubiquitous questions, if properly answered can lead to a very memorable and positive impression, that will go a long way to establishing a friendship or business partnership. So hopefully the reader by the end of today's conversation you to will understand the importance of providing memorable answers to these simple questions...





Almost every time you meet someone new, there are three questions you will probably have to answer during your conversation:

• What’s your name?
• What do you do?
• Where are you from?

These three questions are so common, and you answer them so frequently, that it is very easy to get in the habit of answering them the same way, again and again, without thinking. You probably get bored with your own answers, so you don’t put energy and effort into offering them in an interesting way. “Hi, I’m Joe. I work in public relations for an energy company downtown, and I’m from the Midwest but moved here a couple years ago.” Zzzzz…
You might even feel like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day – going through the exact same routine time in and time out. It may even contribute to why so many of us dread meeting new people.
Yet it’s worth upping your game in this area; how you respond to these three common introductory questions can greatly impact your first impression, how memorable you are to a new acquaintance, and whether your relationship ever gets past first base, so to speak.
In this post I will outline 6 specific strategies for answering these almost inescapable questions in ways that are distinct and memorable. I will also share advice from experts in communications, linguistics, and networking about how you can stand out from the pack.
Additionally, I will give specific examples of how you can use these tips in practice. First, let’s take a look at what those strategies are:

6 Ways to Make Your Answers More Memorable

Here’s a quick snapshot of the ways you can make your answers to these three common questions more memorable:

• Repeat Your Answer. Science and common experience tell us that repeating a thing makes it more memorable. So find subtle ways to repeat your answers, without making it obvious what you are doing.
• Ask a Question. People are more likely to absorb and retain new information if their brain is engaged, which is what happens when you ask a person you’ve just met a question.
• Tell a Story. We’re all drawn to a good story. Use relevant, brief anecdotes or quick stories to stand out. Just don’t be that guy who launches into their entire life story within the first two minutes of an introduction.
• Be Clear and Avoid Trying to Be Overly Clever. Always choose clarity. When you are meeting someone for the first time, you should be cautious about trying to be overly clever in your answers to these questions.
• Create a Personal Association. A great way to be memorable is to create an association between your answers to the three questions and something that is more memorable to the person you are talking to. To use a quick example: a person you just met is more likely to remember your name if you share a name with someone in their family. Find ways to leverage these connections.
• Find Your Inner Black Sheep. Look for ways to describe yourself that highlights your uniqueness. Be different if you want to be remembered. Vanilla is boring and forgettable; Cherry Garcia, with cherries and chocolate chunks, is memorable. Mmmmm…Cherry Garcia. Where was I?

Now, let’s see how these strategies apply to each of the three common questions:

How to Answer “What’s Your Name?” in a Memorable Way

Repeat Your Name – Without Being Obvious About It
When telling someone your name for the first time, one of the best ways to help them remember it is by repeating your name in a subtle way. One of the reasons people often have trouble remembering names is because saying it just once makes it unlikely the name will move from that person’s short-term memory, or their “working memory,” to their long-term memory.
If you want to make your name memorable by repeating it, but you don’t want to be obvious about it, then try these approaches:

• Use your name in dialogue. You might say, “So my wife says to me, ‘John, you put the diaper on backwards again…’”
• Address yourself by name. Try this in conversation: “I was really frustrated, but I said to myself, John, you’re going to learn how to speak Jive if it kills you.”
• Explain the origin of your name, especially if it is unusual. If you have an unusual or hard to pronounce name, you might try explaining briefly the history or origin of your name so you can repeat it. For example, I might say, “Corcoran comes from the Latin, Corcorinitus, which means, ‘tries too hard to be funny.’”

Tell a Story
Another way to make your name memorable is to tell a story, such as how you got your name.
For example, my first name is John, which isn’t very memorable. However, I was named after my grandfather, a B-17 pilot during WWII. If I meet you and I explain this background and tell a quick story about my grandfather, you are more likely to remember my name.

The author’s grandfather, John H. Corcoran Sr., a B-17 pilot during WWII.

Or, let’s say your name is Steve, and it turns out your parents named you after Steve McQueen, the actor. Because they had a sense of humor.
You might tell a short story about it: “My dad was a huge fan of Steve McQueen’s movies back when I was born. My mom was dead set against it, but they made a deal where he got to name me Steve, and she got to name my sister Anne, after the character in her favorite book, Anne of Green Gables.”
Create a Personal Association
Another way to make your name memorable is to create an association between your name and something that is more memorable to the person you are talking to.
For example, if you say your name is “Mitch” and the person you are talking to says, “I have an uncle named Mitch,” you could ask a number of questions about Uncle Mitch so that the person you have just met makes a firm connection between you and their uncle.
You can also connect your name with something the person you have just met already knows. Here are a few examples:

• I have an unusual last name, which most people have trouble spelling. When I lived in Washington D.C., I would say I was “John Corcoran, spelled like the Corcoran Gallery,” an art museum near the White House. I think some people may have wondered whether I was heir to some Corcoran Gallery fortune, which probably made me even more memorable. (I also think that’s what got me a first date with my wife.) By creating an association between my last name and the Corcoran Gallery – a name which most people in Washington D.C. already know – I increased the chances my unusual last name would be memorable.
• Amanda Marko, a strategic communications expert, tells a story about this approach. “So, my husband’s name is Nick Marko, and people say to him all the time, ‘I bet you got teased about Marco Polo a lot as a kid.’ And he always says, ‘Yeah, I did…until the kids got a little older and realized what Nick rhymes with.’”

How to Answer “What Do You Do?” in a Memorable Way

Ask a Question
If you want someone you just met to remember what you do, a great approach is to ask a question that forces them to think.
Art of Manliness style expert Antonio Centeno uses this approach to explain what he does for a living, which has evolved from custom clothier to creating online courses and videos which help men to dress better.
“When people ask what I do, I usually flip the question and say, ‘You know how most guys don’t dress very well?’” says Centeno. This usually gets the person he is talking to nodding along. “Then I talk about how I solve that problem. I might mention that I have a 9-year-old, and let’s say I go to take him to the doctor. Now imagine a guy comes in who is wearing a Grateful Dead t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops. Am I going to give my kid to this person? Probably not. Now imagine a guy wearing a white lab coat walks in. Everyone can relate to how clothing can make a huge difference.”
When you force the person you are talking with to think by asking a question, and to relate what you do to their own life, they are far more likely to remember you.
Be Clear and Avoid Trying to Be Overly Clever
Derek Coburn wears multiple hats. He’s a financial advisor for high net-worth individuals, he’s an entrepreneur, and he’s an author of the great book Networking Is Not Working.
Explaining all of these roles can be confusing. “Often times we get caught up in trying to be clever and it ends up not communicating what we do,” says Coburn. Instead, Coburn recommends keeping things simple and relevant to the person you are talking to by starting with questions. “By learning more about the person I am talking to first and what they do, I’m in a better spot to lead with what’s more relevant to the conversation.”
Naveen Dittakavi made the same mistake of trying to be too creative in describing what he does when he founded his own software consulting firm. “When I first started consulting, I didn’t know where I fit in the mix – I arbitrarily took a title for myself of ‘software architect.’ But no one knew what that meant.”
Worse yet, Dittakavi found many people thought he was an employee rather than a business owner. Eventually, Dittakavi settled on a way of describing what he does. He started saying, “I’m Naveen and I run a web development company,” and he found that people he met were far more likely to understand him – and to remember him as well.

How to Answer “Where Are You From?” in a Memorable Way

When answering where you are from, your answer will always be relative. If you’re standing in Miami, it is memorable to say you’re from New York City. If you’re in Manhattan, you need to be more specific.
But the best approach is to find a way of explaining where you are from that is distinct. In other words, to describe where you live that makes you seem like a black sheep in a sea of white sheep.
Antonio Centeno does this beautifully. On the surface, Centeno appears pretty clean cut. He’s a former Marine with short-cropped hair and no unusual facial hair or visible tattoos. You might even say he could blend into a crowd.
But it’s all in how you spin it.
Antonio is actually a heterosexual male style expert who runs his fashion empire out of his hometown, in tiny Wittenberg, Wisconsin. Population? 1,113 people. Now that is a little more memorable.
When Antonio tells people where he’s from, he makes a point of mentioning his hometown’s population because “my town is incredibly small for most people. I’m an oddity because people think with a fashion company, I would live in New York or Los Angeles or Chicago.”
He could say he’s from Wisconsin and leave it at that. But highlighting how small his hometown is makes him far more memorable.
Antonio finds his uniqueness means people are more likely to remember him, and they’re more likely to later tell their brother or husband or father to check out his website, Real Men Real Style. “Many times I’ll get an email from someone a few weeks after we’ve met saying you were brought up in a conversation,” says Centeno.

Go Out and Be Memorable

Hopefully these strategies gave you some ideas for making yourself more memorable the next time you meet someone new and need to answer the world’s most common introductory questions.
And remember: if you try these strategies and people still can’t remember you, you can always move to a small town in rural Wisconsin, because that is really memorable. I’m sure Antonio would enjoy the company.