Get Your Train of Thought Back on Track
REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT YOURSELF. Paraphrasing your last few thoughts out loud can help you remember where you were going. Think of it as retracing your steps: You go back to the last words you remember saying, and more often than not, you’ll find your direction again. TAKE A SHORT PAUSE. Pausing briefly is a great way to make recovering your train of thought seem natural. This hack works really well if you’re answering a question and you need time to think, and you also don’t want to be bogged down by a chorus of “ums” escaping from your mouth. WRITE IT ALL DOWN. This hack works well when you know beforehand that you’ll be speaking with someone or in front of people. Even if you never refer to your notes while speaking, simply writing down a road map for your train of thought can help you recover from a detour and speak more confidently. REMEMBER YOUR OVERALL POINT. The easiest way to drive your train of thought into the weeds is to forget your overall point — or not to have an overriding point at all. Always have a short, overarching point you can use to recenter yourself and get back on track. With these hacks, your brain will have to work a lot harder to make you lose your train of thought! Now you’ll be more prepared to tackle any subject matter, no matter how deep or technical, that comes your way.
RECOVERY HACKS Have you ever been in the middle of a conversation, presentation, or debate, stringing together thoughts in a way you hope is coherent and insightful
when — poof! — you lose your train of thought? It’s frustrating. You just want to make yourself understood, but your brain has other plans. What if there were a way to keep your train of thought on track? Well, the good news is that recovering your train of thought is easy with the following hacks in mind.
Coming Up at the Van Dyck Law Education Center Our Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) Class
The CDP class is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 14–15 at the Education Center. As the time for this event comes closer, you’ll be able to find more information about it at VanDyckFirm.com/resources/the- education-center . You can also give us a call at 609-293-3236 if you have any questions. It’s been more than a year of social distancing and only seeing people through Zoom calls and video screens, so we’re excited to host this event in person. We hope that if you have a heart for people with dementia and you want to know how to best care for them, we’ll see you in September!
As the weather heats up and the world continues to reopen, we’re happy to announce what’s coming up at the Van Dyck Law Education Center. Over the next few months, we only have one event of note, but we want to make sure you fully understand the importance of our Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) class. Over six million people in the United States live with Alzheimer’s, and it kills more people than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alzheimer’s and dementia deaths increased by 16%. We at Van Dyck Law understand that this disease is very present and know the heartbreaking reality for many of our clients and members of our community. That’s why we want to do everything we can to equip those who do the work of caring for people with dementia through our Education Center. The Certified Dementia Practitioner class can prepare anyone to grapple with the challenges of caring for someone with dementia. It’s a necessary step toward becoming a CDP, so if you’re in the process of becoming one, the class offered through the Van Dyck Law Education Center will count as an Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Seminar in the eyes of the NCCDP (National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners).
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