How can I improve my ability to remember important dates?

How can I improve my ability to remember important dates?

To remember important appointments and dates, from birthdays to anniversaries, develop a key system that you can refer to, such as visualizing a number that goes with that particular date. And then every time you have an appointment, you can scan those keys very rapidly. For example, if a person has a birthday on the 14th of July, you might think of 14 as a valentine's box. You might think of July as a firecracker. So if you have the firecracker on the valentine's box, that's George's birthday. He's holding the valentine's box with a firecracker, so you know his birthday is July 14th.