How can I organize, motivate and stop myself from forgetting??

Dear Headmaster,Trying to remember things is often down to hard work and self discipline,but one trick I learned at school from my old French teacher was that if there is a really rude ociation with any thing you wish to remember use it.So just think of this wanna be mad professor in his French maid's outfit trying to whip himself into a Masochistic frenzy.