Do you ever just get a thought in your head for something you were supposed to do? You get mad at yourself for not remembering. To be precise, I am talking about something that you actually told yourself to do.
I will illustrate. If you remember one night that you forgot to put your shoes away, that is fine. The case I am talking about is if you take your shoes off, leave them out, and say to yourself that you are going to put them away before bed. And then you realize you didn't. In those cases, can you do something to mentally make up for not remembering? An idea would be to quickly get out of bed and go put them away because you said you were going to.
You have a list of things that you are going to get at the store. When you get back you remember that you forgot one. You immediately return to the store and get it. It doesn't matter what you were doing. The fact that you told yourself you were going to get it implies you have to go get it. Now. Because you said you would. Are you doing something? Too bad, go get it.
You have something in your car that you were going to bring inside. You said to yourself that you were going to bring it with you. You get inside and realize you forgot it. Right away, go back to your car and get it. You have to do it because you said you were going to.
Is this a process by which one could improve their memory? It would be more convenient to just get it next time you go to your car, however you said that you were going to bring it in that time, so you go do it now. For the first example, you can just put your shoes away the next morning, but you told yourself that you were going to do it that night, which means you have to go do it.
What about furthering it? Forget something in your car, go back to your car and back ten times as punishment.
Didn't do something you said to yourself you were going to do? Go do it ten times (or whatever number) to make up for it. Can this create new connections in the brain? Is it possible to rewire the brain to stop forgetting things? The punishment for not doing something you said to yourself that you would is that you have to do it more the second time.
Is this like psychosis bordering on OCD or over a specific duration would this actually make you better at remembering to do the things you said you were going to do?