Memory-in terms of practicality

You know... There are so many ways that technology that your phone or your computer or your "Palm Pilot" would help you to remember all of your birthdays or dates-to-remember or what-you-were-going-to-do-tonight, etc. that in most ways, we don't have to do all of the leg-work to remember things...

Now, you just have to be smart when you are using that technology, or else you might as well just leave it to your brain to do all of that leg-work.

How can you be smart about how to best use your memory?

Well, to answer my own question...

You can use your memory to remember the things that you eith need to know know now or will need to remember in the future about the future or will need ot remember your future's past (presumably the things that are going on in your curren present or the things that actually have taken place in your actual past...).

You could just remember everything, but like most (or ALL) of us, we need some criteria as to what we will choose to remember. I would recommend the citeria of what is found in Dallin H. Oaks, October 2007 Sunday afternoon talk in General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Good, Better, Best.

It'll be 100% up to you to decide which things are best and remember those or to remember the things that are merely good or better to remember... I can't lay out a standard and uniform guideline for all of you, so, stop trying to force me to!!!

My own opinion would be that we should focus our mental thought (our memories) on those things that, "... can only be accomplished with Priesthood authority, such as teaching the Gospel and redeeming the dead." (Dallin H. Oaks, BYU Studies November 1992).

JPS