Thoughts: You don't get much time at ALL to work with it.
   Amplify it quickly or it's gone. Repetition. Good ol' Rote. Turn
   it into a short song. Same thing as memorizing a series of
   numbers long enough to get through a doorway [see doorway
   effect]. There's also Roman Room technique as well. My favorite
   little trick is putting thoughts in a virtual mental basket and
   carrying them through doorways. Odd but it keeps them present.
   Otherwise, I have to go back into the other room to remember.
   Relax, look around, try to forget that I was remembering and
   BOOM there it is, pops right up again.